Alysia Sawchyn’s debut book of essays, A Fish Growing Lungs, is available now from Burrow Press!

“At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I. Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed. A Fish Growing Lungs takes the form of linked essays that reflect on Sawchyn’s diagnosis and its unraveling, the process of withdrawal and recovery, and the search for identity as she emerges from a difficult past into a cautiously hopeful present.”

If it’s stll Wednesday afternoon when you read this, there may still be time to register for Alysia’s online book launch (7pm Eastern) via Zoom.

Disquiet faculty and 2020 guest writer Tayari Jones reviews Stacy Abram’s new book Our Time is Now for the New York Times, and shares a few of her favorite things with The Guardian.

Mistakes by the Lake, a Cleveland-centered collection of short fiction by Brian Petkash, is available now from Madville Publishing.

Carter Sickels’ highly anticipated new novel The Prettiest Star came out early last week with the prettiest cover.

A group of major Portuguese authors have found a way to keep themselves and their readers busy during the lockdown: they’re writing a serial novel, with each writer given 24 hours to respond to the previous chapter.

You can read about the project in The Guardian, or follow the story in English, here.

The Common is one of the best-looking (and just plain best) journals out there. You can browse the new issue (including a portfolio of Sudanese fiction and art, “essays on brothers and murder trials, fiction about gender roles, bomb shelters, and life inside a correctional facility, and poems by Don Share, John Freeman, Tara Skurtu, and more,”) for free online or order your own copy to enjoy.

Travel writer Beebe Bahrami has published a piece about Lisbon in Perceptive Travel – you can read it here.