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.
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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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
Out now! Harbinger by Shelley Puhak
DISQUIET 2015 alum Shelly Puhak’s National Poetry Series winning book of poetry, Harbinger, is out today from Harper Collins! You can read her poem “Portrait of the Artist With the Family Dog” in The Atlantic.