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Jamwriter Spotlight - History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine
Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir—”poignant, painful, and gorgeous” (Alicia Garza)—explores siblinghood, adolescence,...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
A tale of deep bonds to family, place, language―of hard-won selfhood told by a singular, incandescent voice. The Magical Language of...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - What Shines from It by Sara Rauch
The eleven stories in Sara Rauch’s What Shines from It are rife with the physical and psychic wounds of everyday life. In “Beholden,”...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment by Therese Doucet
Violaine, a devotee of books and learning, is sold by her father to a mysterious nobleman to become his companion. Fearing herself at the...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely
Jude and Lyle’s newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Collective Gravities by Chloe N. Clark
In Collective Gravities, something magical is always just beneath the surface–the zombie apocalypse happens, but the world stays...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano
Deep in the mountains of British Columbia, across an unforgiving landscape, one man’s pursuit of a fabled mountain lion leads him into...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Little Feasts by Jules Archer
Following her successes from All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had, critically-acclaimed flash fiction writer, Jules Archer, returns to the...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Enlightenment of Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
FINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Temporary by Hilary Leichter
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness,...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Anthropica by Laszlow Katasztrófa
A Hungarian fatalist convinced that the human race is a blemish on God’s otherwise beautiful universe; a statistician who has determined...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 23, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich
As Communism begins to crumble in Prague in the 1980s, Jana’s unremarkable life becomes all at once remarkable when a precocious young...
Cherry Pastry
Nov 23, 2021
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