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April 19, 2024

Preorder now! Us Fools by Nora Lange

The debut novel from Disquiet alum Nora Lange arrives in September 2024 from Two Dollar Radio! You can preorder it here.

“Us Fools is a boisterous, irreverent, and moving novel about two sisters growing up in an America that doesn’t much care for them or their midwestern farming family. With comic tenderness and with an unforgettable, ferocious voice, Nora Lange paints a remarkable portrait of connection and alienation, of love and heartbreak, and all points in between.” —Edan Lepucki

March 18, 2024

New essay by Julia Lichtblau in The American Scholar

DISQUIET alum Julia Lichtblau’s essay, “I So Wish That You Remembered,” is available to read now in The American Scholar.

February 28, 2024

Two New Books by Ru Freeman

DISQUIET faculty member (and 2017 Nonfiction Prize winner) Ru Freeman has two new books out: 2022’s story collection Sleeping Alone, and Bon Courage: Essays (Etruscan Press, 2023).

You can read Ru’s latest essay in AGNI, here.

November 20, 2023

Congratulations to Bruna Dantas Lobato and Justin Torres!

Congratulations to 2019 DISQUIET faculty Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award in fiction for Blackouts, and to Bruna Dantas Lobato, DISQUIET PA and 2018 Luso-American Fellowship recipient, whose translation of Stênio Gardel’s novel The Words That Remain won the National Book Award for translated literature!

November 16, 2023

Gabriel Bump’s The New Naturals

Have you been waiting for the new novel by DISQUIET faculty (and alum!) Gabriel Bump? You’re not alone, and you’re in luck: The New Naturals is out now! You can read about it in the New York Times or on WBUR.org, or just order it today!

October 17, 2023

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

DISQUIET alum Sarah Rose Etter has a new novel out! Read an interview in The Chicago Review of Books, hear it talked about on NPR, or order it today!

September 25, 2023

Bruna Dantas Lobato longlisted for 2023 National Book Award

We are thrilled to learn that Bruna Dantas Lobato, a 2018 Luso-American Fellow and current Program Assistant, has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain. Congratulations, Bruna!

August 2, 2023

Cristina Fries in Michigan Quarterly Review

“Don’t Leave, Cecilia” by 2023 DISQUIET alum Cristina Fries, is one of the stories in the Summer 2023 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. See the table of contents and order a copy here.

July 31, 2023

Brother Alive shortlisted for Ursula K. Le Guin Prize

We’re excited to report that alum Zain Khalid’s debut novel, Brother Alive, has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Leguin Prize for fiction!

March 16, 2023

Out Now: Hemorrhaging Want & Water by Emily Marie Passos Duffy

The debut poety collection by Disquiet alum and 2020 Luso-American Fellow Emily Marie Passos Duffy is out now from Perennial Press! You can order it here.