Lilly Dancyger’s searing and poignant essay collection, First Love: Essays on Friendship (The Dial Press, 2024), explores female companionship, care, and survival. Beginning with her close childhood bond with her cousin, Sabina, Dancyger understood the love of friendship as a revelation.
Read MoreShould You Lose All Reason(s) by Justine Chan is a debut collection of poetry from Chin Music Press that centers around a Southern Paiute legend about the Coyote. In this legend, a father tells his family to burn his body on a pyre when he dies, to run and not look back.
Read MoreWhen Kate Doyle’s story, “The Goldfish in the Pond at the Community Garden,” arrived to Split Lip Magazine’s submissions queue last year, it was like a revelation: I instantly wanted to publish it.
Read MoreThe adage “You can’t judge a book by its cover” frequently gets ignored by book lovers, and for good reason: You often can tell whether or not you’ll enjoy a book by its cover, and good publishers know that.
Read MoreMaking art that communicates internal truths when you don’t know who you are or who you want to become is routine for most artists at some point.
Read MoreIt might seem reckless of me to deem National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela’s forthcoming The People Who Report More Stress one of the best story collections of the year when it’s the first I’ve read. But here’s the thing: Varela’s collection does everything right.
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