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Rastus Makimbe
- 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...
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,...
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
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
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
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
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...