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Jamwriter Spotlight - Palmares, by Gayl Jones
When Toni Morrison discovered Jones in the seventies, she said of her debut novel, Corregidora, “No novel about any Black woman could...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
Expectations were high for Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney’s first outing since she became a global literary phenom—and her 2021...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, by Mark McGurl
With its staggering American market share of 50% of printed books and upwards of 75% of ebooks, Amazon has changed literary life as we...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - My Body, by Emily Ratajkowski
Superstar model, entrepreneur, and actress Emily Ratajkowski explodes onto the literary scene with My Body, a revealing and personal...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Reprieve, by James Han Mattson
It’s April 1997, and four hopeful contestants have made it to the final room of the Quigley House, a “full contact” haunted escape room...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Candy Mafia by Lavie Tidhar
When notorious candy gangster Eddie de Menthe asks for her help to find a missing teddy bear, Nelle Faulkner is on the case. But as soon...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into College by Ed Lin
In David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, novelist Ed Lin conjures up “a fast-paced, acid-tongued,...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Camper Girl by Glenn Erick Miller
While her friends head off to college, Shannon Burke is stuck with a dead-end job and the responsibility of saving her mother’s business....
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Praise Song for My Children by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Praise Song for My Children celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century. Patricia...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Travelers Leaving for the City by Ed Skoog
Travelers Leaving for the City is a long song of arrivals and departures, centered around the murder of the poet’s grandfather in 1955 in...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Ways We Vanish by Todd Dillard
WAYS WE VANISH, Todd Dillard’s debut poetry collection, navigates the grief following the loss of a loved one while also starting a new...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - When My Body Was a Clinched Fist by Enzo Silon Surin
“Back in the day when KRS-One intoned–The Bridge is over!–he did not prefigure a poet from Queens of the fierce attitude and intellectual...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - $50,000 by Andrew Whitehead
$50,000 is a long poem that allows Andrew Weatherhead the space to search everything–his cubicle, his relationships with coworkers and...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Fish Growing Lungs by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I. Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed. A Fish Growing Lungs...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - An Ambiguous Grief by Dominique Hunter
“An Ambiguous Grief is a beautiful, unflinchingly honest, poignant and wistful memoir, written with humor, and a graceful sangfroid that...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - High Cotton by Kristie Robin Johnson
Kristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did five generations of African American women before her...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August by Danielle Zaccagnino
SUPPOSE MUSCLE, SUPPOSE NIGHT, SUPPOSE THIS IN AUGUST explores how anxiety and escape can shape a life from childhood to adulthood. This...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
There are countless books on the market about how to write better but very few books on how to break into the marketplace with your first...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Incredible Shrinking Woman by Athena Dixon
A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon’s debut essay collection, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, is a gentle...
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Nov 29, 2021
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