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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Little Devil in America, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The celebrated author of Go Ahead in the Rain returns with a far-reaching collection of twenty essays, each one a remarkable synthesis of...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female physicians in the United States, this mesmerizing novel begins in...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster
Set in the foothills of North Carolina, Coster’s gripping sophomore novel centers on two mothers: Jade, a Black single mother striving to...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel
Beginning unforgettably with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s sweeping novel gives voice to three...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
Never has the experience of being Extremely Online been more viscerally rendered than in No One Is Talking About This, Lockwood’s...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder
The novelist and viral poet behind So Sad Today returns with her outstanding second novel, a bold and luscious story of desire in all its...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Land of Big Numbers, by Te-Ping Chen
Chen’s remarkable debut collection of stories unfolds across the modern Chinese diaspora, pinballing between acutely observed realism and...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll
Carroll’s searing memoir recounts her complicated childhood as the only Black person in a rural New Hampshire town, where even the love...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Somebody's Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford
In this searingly honest memoir, Ford recounts her turbulent coming of age in Indiana, where she was raised by a volcanic and sometimes...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into College by Ed Lin
In David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, novelist Ed Lin conjures up “a fast-paced, acid-tongued,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Praise Song for My Children by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Praise Song for My Children celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century. Patricia...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Fish Growing Lungs by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I. Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed. A Fish Growing Lungs...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - An Ambiguous Grief by Dominique Hunter
“An Ambiguous Grief is a beautiful, unflinchingly honest, poignant and wistful memoir, written with humor, and a graceful sangfroid that...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - High Cotton by Kristie Robin Johnson
Kristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did five generations of African American women before her...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August by Danielle Zaccagnino
SUPPOSE MUSCLE, SUPPOSE NIGHT, SUPPOSE THIS IN AUGUST explores how anxiety and escape can shape a life from childhood to adulthood. This...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Incredible Shrinking Woman by Athena Dixon
A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon’s debut essay collection, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, is a gentle...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine
Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir—”poignant, painful, and gorgeous” (Alicia Garza)—explores siblinghood, adolescence,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
A tale of deep bonds to family, place, language―of hard-won selfhood told by a singular, incandescent voice. The Magical Language of...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - What Shines from It by Sara Rauch
The eleven stories in Sara Rauch’s What Shines from It are rife with the physical and psychic wounds of everyday life. In “Beholden,”...
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