Literary Nonfiction. Michelle Junot has kept notes on her phone for years�what to pick up at the store, work-out logs, prayers, hopes, thoughts on life and death�all the while creating a snapshot of her life with an honesty that only occurs when not paying attention. In NOTES FROM MY PHONE* (Mason Jar Press, 2016), Junot opens up her phone and her life to you. This collection of essays, to-do lists, vignettes, reminders and dreams mixes heart-felt memoir with the everyday marginalia that makes up a twenty-something's life and day planner. The everyday is placed side-by-side with the universal, and in doing so, transcends to be more than the sum of its parts. If, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans," then NOTES FROM MY PHONE*, celebrates life in all its tedious and troubling beauty.

Notes from My Phone* a self-portrait in her twenties

Literature & Fiction

Junot, Michelle

Essays & Correspondence

Mason Jar Press

Poetry. African &amp; African American Studies. The Black Ladies Brunch Collective's poetry anthology, NOT WITHOUT OUR LAUGHTER, (Mason Jar Press, 2017) is a collection of humorous and joyful poems, riffing on Langston Hughes's novel Not Without Laughter. It explores topics of family, work, love and sexuality. The women of BLBC believe, like Hughes, that even in these currently tense racial times, laughter and the celebration of life is crucial. Historically, it is what African Americans have done and will continue to do, no matter what challenges face them.

Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy & Sexuality

Collective, The Black Ladies Brunch

Poetry

Poetry. Erin Dorney's debut, I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE, is a collection of erasure poems sourced from media interviews with Shia LaBeouf. Erasure is a form of poetry created by erasing words from an existing text and framing the result on the page as a poem. The poems in I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE are sourced from interviews published in Rolling Stone, Dazed, GQ, The Guardian, The New York Times, Playboy, Cosmo Girl, among other publications.

I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems After Shia Labeouf

Dorney, Erin

Broken Metropolis: Queer Tales of a City That Never Was (edited by dave ring, Mason Jar Press, August 2018) explores the edges of urban fantasy through queer narratives in the tradition of Swords of the Rainbow (Alyson Publications, 1996) and Bending the Landscape (Overlook Books, 1997). This collection contains ten of those edges, each one bright and gleaming, from Claire Rudy Foster's story of a scientist learning to accept not only herself but the very real impact of astrology on her love life, to Caspian Gray's tale of a young man looking for an urban legend in the halls of a hospital ward so that he can save the matriarch of his found family. Queer communities hold multitudes, and fantasy writing is a place to explore the magic of possibility. Come explore some of those possibilities in a city that never was. Stories from: Jacob Budenz, kx carys, Meghan Cunningham, Claire Rudy Foster, Caspian Gray, V. Medina, H. Pueyo, M. Raoulee, D.M. Rice, Victoria Zelvin (less)

Broken Metropolis: Queer Tales of a City that Never Was

Short Stories & Anthologies

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. HOW TO SIT: A MEMOIR IN STORIES AND ESSAYS, when viewed in its entirety, plays with the line between fiction and nonfiction as it explores adolescence, identity, grief, and the transition between girlhood and womanhood for a young black woman seeking to ground herself when all she wants is to pretend her world is fantasy.

How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays

Coleman, Tyrese L.

History & Criticism

Poetry. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, an often-humorous book, explores the effect of mass commercialism on identity, love, religion, and the American landscape. From Kanye West at Waffle House to dead malls to Passover candy, the book questions how branding and celebrity function as filters through which we see the world.

Continental Breakfast

Caine, Danny

Fiction. Poetry. ...AND OTHER DISASTERS, the smart and moving collection of short fiction and poetry from acclaimed author Malka Older, examines otherness, identity and compassion across a spectrum of possible existence. In stories about an AI built for empathy, a corps of fighting midwives traveling to a new planet, and a young anthropologist who returns to study the cultures of a dying Earth, Older's characters grapple with what it means to belong and be othered, to cling to the past and face the future, all while navigating a precarious world, riddled with natural and man-made disasters.

...and Other Disasters

Older, Malka

United States

Poetry. Women's Studies. In the mythic world of ASHLEY SUGARNOTCH & THE WOLF, two characters are cosmically intertwined, both moored to their past and to the expectations of society. Through syllabic and prose poems, the collection asks questions about what happens when people find themselves in a cycle of violence. Myths, retold over centuries, also mean that these cycles repeat through the storytelling. Both Ashley and the Wolf are modern, but they are forever tied to their myth.

Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf

Lakes, Elizabeth Deanna Morris

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Memoir. SUPPOSE MUSCLE, SUPPOSE NIGHT, SUPPOSE THIS IN AUGUST explores how anxiety and escape can shape a life from childhood to adulthood. This hybrid of lyrical essays and poetry weaves a delicate thread across the country, through dreams and nightmares, euphoria and fear, and intimacy and distance, always with particular attention to form and language. With dreamlike imagery, a unique inventiveness, and emotional clarity, the collection dissects that which we are too afraid to touch in our waking hours.

Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This In August

Zaccagnino, Danielle

Fiction. THE HORROR IS US is an anthology about monsters and the monstrous things that grow from us--individually and together. It examines the horrors we experience and put each other through. The authors within this creeping collection demonstrate an eye for taking our world and adjusting the picture of it until we can see the gleaming teeth that were always there. A mix of killers, the supernatural, and everyday fears play out in these short stories that blend the aesthetics of slasher films, ghost stories, campfire tales, and thrillers. THE HORROR IS US gives a view into other people's fears and asks us to feel that fear with them.

The Horror is Us

Sanders, Justin

Genre Fiction

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