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José Felipe Alvergue
Purplish

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

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Katherine Anderson Howell
Disability and Fandom

Disability and Fandom examines how key fandom platforms--including cons, Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok--set up user interfaces that may mask their true values, potentially decr…

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Martyn Bone
The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

This book considers the full range of Jesmyn Ward's career thus far. Martyn Bone examines key themes running throughout Ward's writing: Black life in the U.S. South; the legacies of slavery and segregatio…

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Andrew Brininstool
High Desert Blood

High Desert Blood unveils the conditions that led to the infamous 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico riot and its aftermath. Snaking through the storyline are inmates Gary Williams, a nonviolent first-time o…

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Aaron Colton
Writing Through Writer's Block

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan…

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Coreen Derifield
We Were Still Ladies

Following World War II, women living in small towns and on farms across the Midwest woke every morning and headed out for a long day of work in a nearby factory. This transition into industrial work cause…

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Hasan Dudar
Carryout

In the late 1970s, Ziad Idilbi, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, marries Salma, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the very last time, the couple opens a corner …

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Divya Garg
Decolonizing Media Fandom

"Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Anglo-American, and able-bodied. Research about racially and culturally diverse fans is usually undertake…

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Ted Geltner
Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures

The year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write. His…

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William Green
This Is the Route of My Forefathers

The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans--and most Americans--know little about them. In This Is the Route of My Forefathers, William Green elevates an understudied history by synthesizi…

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Chandra Owenby Hopkins
Southern Stages

Through the eyes of actors and everyday people, Southern Stagesoffers an engaging new model for interrogating the performance of southernness, as well as how memory and imagination intersect in spaces tha…

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Bruce Johnson
Love, Dirt

From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a trip to…

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Samantha Kimmey
The Extremities!

One day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. Kim initially believes the disorder--as she refers to it--will disappear…

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Youna Kwak
For This and Other Cruelties

CALIBA's 2025 Golden Poppy Book Award Finalist, PoetryThe shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak'sFor This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold…

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Pat Lipsky
Brightening Glance

Brightening Glance offers a stunningly self-revealing portrait of the struggles and sacrifices, joys and excitement inherent in a modern painter's life, and captures the evergreen allure of New York's art…

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Geoff Peck
City of Clans

Set on the eve of the 2009 G20 Summit protests, City of Clans follows Jeremy Starcevic, a community college student struggling with his identity and sexuality. As the son of a professional baseball player…

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Stefan Schöberlein, Zachary Turpin
Whitman's Southern Sojourn

Walt Whitman's 1848 stint in New Orleans was a crucial moment of development for the poet. Working for The Daily Crescent , a new local newspaper, Whitman spent his days strolling through the multiracial …

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Jennifer Sears
What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister's daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family's faith toward religious doubt. Stumbling comically at times, Ruthie navigates life wi…

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James Shea
Last Day of My Face

James Shea's collection deepens his exploration of the elegiac imagination, sending estranged speakers into new fields of quiet crisis. Rich with reversals, short poems are wedged against skittery contemp…

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Paige Towers
What They Stole

In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress…

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