Your hold is ready! (8. 23. 2021)

Happy August, everyone! I write from my childhood home in Connecticut, where I’m enjoying the last bit of summer before returning to classes in September.

I’m also writing to celebrate some exciting news –– I have a small press! swallow::tale press is a Mad press for Mad manuscripts, co-run by myself and my co-conspirator and fellow Mad creator, Feyxuan. Check out the website for more info on what we’re looking for, and don’t forget to pre-order our first items. We’re so excited to get rolling on what’s long been a dream of ours.

Okay, now to the (other) recommendations!

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Martha Wells, All Systems Red.

• Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa.

• Samuel R Delany, Heavenly Breakfast.

• Miri Yū, Tokyo Ueno Station.

Podcasts and Videos:

• Yo Soy Así (documentary, Eng. sub)

• Death Panel Podcast

Albums

• Aziya, We Speak of Tides (2021).

• Russian Red, I Love Your Glasses (2008).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• April Yee, Courtroom Sonnets (2021).

• E. Kristin Anderson, I’ve Been Numb (2021).

• Sara Elkamel, A Bride for a Flood (2021).

• Toni Morrison, Recitatif (1983).

• Alyssa Moore, “When”/“i’m hysterical”/“i can’t stop thinking about”/“representations” (2019).

• Sumita Chakraborty, “Most of the Children Who Lived in This House Are Dead. As a Child I Lived Here. Therefore I Am Dead” and Three Poems (2020).

Essays and Articles:

• Sabrina Orah Mark, Fuck the Bread. The Bread is Over (2020).

• Kiese Laymon, Terrors.

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In( link is to my PayPal –– pay what you can, $3-6 recommended, and include your email for a PDF copy. Yes, you are “friends and family.”) And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• Salvation in Santa Fe Writer’s Workshop.

• On Loving Red in Blue Marble Review.

• Again Soon in Flypaper Lit.

• Review: Minerva A Miscarriage of the Brain by Johanna Hedva in Carousel.

• Making a madwoman in Lavender Review.

• affective turn and Mealtime Scene in Hooligan Magazine.

• Butch flight in you are here: the journal of creative geography.

• THIS IS NOT A MEAL. in New Delta Review.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

• DIRECTOR’S CUT in Lammergeier Magazine.

That’s all for now –– again, feel free to let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!