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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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,”...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 23, 2021
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...
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Cherry Pastry
Nov 23, 2021
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...
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