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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Little Devil in America, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The celebrated author of Go Ahead in the Rain returns with a far-reaching collection of twenty essays, each one a remarkable synthesis of...
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Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female physicians in the United States, this mesmerizing novel begins in...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster
Set in the foothills of North Carolina, Coster’s gripping sophomore novel centers on two mothers: Jade, a Black single mother striving to...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel
Beginning unforgettably with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s sweeping novel gives voice to three...
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Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
Never has the experience of being Extremely Online been more viscerally rendered than in No One Is Talking About This, Lockwood’s...
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Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder
The novelist and viral poet behind So Sad Today returns with her outstanding second novel, a bold and luscious story of desire in all its...
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Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Land of Big Numbers, by Te-Ping Chen
Chen’s remarkable debut collection of stories unfolds across the modern Chinese diaspora, pinballing between acutely observed realism and...
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Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll
Carroll’s searing memoir recounts her complicated childhood as the only Black person in a rural New Hampshire town, where even the love...
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Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Somebody's Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford
In this searingly honest memoir, Ford recounts her turbulent coming of age in Indiana, where she was raised by a volcanic and sometimes...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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
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
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...
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Nov 29, 2021
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...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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
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
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...
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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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,...
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...
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,”...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
