Rui Zink in Ninth Letter
The American premier of Portuguese guest writer Rui Zink’s novel The Installation of Fear is available to read at Ninth Letter, here.
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Out now: Lyrics for Rock Stars by Heather Sappenfield
Heather Sappenfield’s short story collection Lyrics for Rock Stars, winner of the V Press LC Compilation Book Prize, is out today – congratulations, Heather!
In Lyrics for Rock Stars, Heather Mateus Sappenfield has drawn a map of the Colorado mountains and written a legend that describes the inner workings of its people’s hearts.
—Camille T. DungyStepping into the stories in Lyrics for Rock Stars is like stepping into lives you already know, people you’ve lived with, or if you don’t know them already, you’ll wish you did. Writing about the inhabitants of landscapes she knows by heart, Sappenfield makes her people come alive on the page and you’ll turn each of those pages hoping for them, pulling for them, realizing, slowly, that their lives are our own.—Pete Fromm
Out now: Wiving by Caitlin Myer
Wiving is a wonder, a hypnotic account of the dangers of desire–specifically female desire–when it dares to run counter to all the barriers that were created to keep such passions in their place. Myer’s self-examination and honesty go way past brave and into a dizzying kind of free-fall confession. When I finished this, I felt heart-broken to know what finally ‘shook her free.’ Highly recommended.”–Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil and I Will Be Complete
Alum Caitlin Myer’s memoir Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Partiarchy is out now! Buy it from our friends at Point Reyes Books, or read a review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Everything’s Fine” by Bea Chang
2. Two months ago, Broad Street Magazine invited past contributors to add to its pandemic blog. I dismissed the invitation almost right away; I am a slow, painfully meticulous writer. An example: I am currently working on an essay about 9/11. So I figured that by the time I was “done” with my coronavirus ramblings, some semblance of normalcy would have resumed.
3. Yet, here we are.
Thirty-one paragraphs about quarantine and sports by Bea Chang, at Broad Street.
Out now! The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals
Alum Becky Mandelbaum’s novel The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is out now! Order it from Bookshop.org or read an interview with the author in the Chicago Review of Books.
Shayla Lawson in The Cut
You are here because you are cool. You have arrived. You’ve finally landed a career in some transparent millennial advertising agency with the pinball machine and the snacks and the sliding-glass office spaces. After three to six interviews and a probation period that amounted to an extended six-month half-paid internship — so you could shadow the girl whose new position comes with a pay bump meaning she will earn four times more than you — you have made it: a job with health care and vision and dental and sick pay and the opportunity to quit at least two of your four to six side jobs.
If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to The Cut for an excerpt from Shayla Lawson’s new book This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope.
New Nonfiction from Poupeh Missaghi
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised not only practical questions with regard to our public health, environment, education, and sociopolitical systems, but also concerns about our ability to cope psychologically. Many experts have been warning about the mental health impacts of the disaster. They have discussed how the pandemic has been a trigger for a lot of old suppressed emotions, causing them to rise to the surface. It has also raised many philosophical questions about what it means to be a human being in this world.
Read alum Poupeh Missaghi’s essay, “A Persian New Year Beginning with COVID-19” in the June 2020 issue of Words Without Borders.
Preorder Skull Cathedral by Melissa Wiley
Alum Melissa Wiley’s “[h]ungry, ascetic, erotic, and haunted” (Paul Lisicky) essay collection Skull Cathedral: A Vestigal Anatomy is coming your way in September 2020, and avaiable for preorder now from Autumn House Press.
You can read a recent interview with Melissa at Split City Reads.
Rebecca Fishow’s The Trouble With Language
We’re excited to announce that DISQUIET alum Rebecca Fishow’s story collection, The Trouble With Language, winner of the 2019 Holland Prize for Fiction, is available for preorder now from Trnsfr Books.
You can get a taste of Rebecca’s short fiction at Smokelong Quarterly or Quarterly West.
Jay Boss Rubin in Barzakh
“You Have to Use Your Brains to Survive,” the opening chapter of alum Jay Boss Rubin’s novel in progress, was published by Barzak magazine in their Spring 2020 issue! You can read it here.
Another excerpt is available in the latest issue (004) of the Buckmxn Journal.