This week we lost Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who was an integral part of the United States race to space. Her calculations were so spot-on that astronaut John Glenn requested she double-check behind the NASA computers to make sure all the math was correct. In her 35-year career, she broke down racial and social…
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Hi friends, it’s been a minute. As this decade closes and new one begins, much reflection has taken place. A whole 10 years – that’s truly how long I’ve been doing this shit. Flash back to 2010, my junior year of high school, when my concert buddies Trey and Ryan invited me to contribute to…
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No, not that Hank Williams, but the protagonist “could be effortlessly interchanged with the final note of a really sad, heartbreaking, old-fashioned country song.” The trip is a dizzying, visceral journey through the mind, led by a cat named Sid in van they call Nancy.
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Big Bruiser Dope Boy’s new book of poetry is staggering in its power and sentiment. It’s not heartbreaking, it’s soul crushing.
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The collection of fictions from some authors we’ve covered before and someone we haven’t deliver stories that might not be real, but are so real.
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Joey Grantham has been everywhere. Between various bookstores to big cities and even a stint back at his parents, he meshed with writers and made scattered poems a cohesive book.
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Shelley Jackson’s new novel is a postmodern puzzle-box that staggers and unsettles. Welcome to the world of Sybil Joines’ Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children.
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