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Pulse Ensemble Theatre will stage Carole Bugge's physics play Strings Attached, opening August 28th through October 1st, on NYC's Theatre Row.
Rachel Simon's nonfiction book Pickleball for All: Everything But the "Kitchen" Sink will be released on August 29th by Harper Collins/Dey Street Books.
Flux published Robert Repino's op-ed "The January 6th Hearings Demonstrate How to Move Forward When Dialogue Is Impossible."
DX Varos Publishing released Jessica Sticklor's novel The Rise of Runes and Shields, the first book in a new fantasy young-adult series, the Seidr Sagas, (published under her author name J.M. Stephen).
Cure Today published Laura Yeager's "I Feel Empathy for Those Who Are Abandoned During Cancer."
Fran McNulty's collection Weight took first-runner up in the Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest and has been published by Choeofpleirn Press.
For W magazine, Rachel Simon interviewed Olivia Newman, director of the film Where the Crawdads Sing, about adapting the lyricism of the novel to the screen.
Opera America staged a workshop of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, with libretto by Edward Einhorn.
Amina Akhtar's novel Kismet, released by Thomas + Mercer on August 1st, is an Amazon's First Reads.
The Millions interviewed Alanna Schubach about female friendships, magic realism, and her new novel The Nobodies.
Melissa Petro's essay "(Sex) Work" is included in the anthology Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo, out now from Simon & Schuster.
The Rumpus published Amanda Oliver's essay "Honey."
"It's perfect summer reading," says Publishers Weekly in its review of Kristin Rockaway's novel Smart Girl Summer, to be published this month by Montlake.
Pidgeonholes published María Alejandra Barrios's short story "Periquito."
Fran McNulty's poem "The Exterminator" appears in Coneflower Cafe.
Smokelong Quarterly published Arlaina Tibensky's flash story "The Pelican."
María Alejandra Barrios's story "Things Never Stay Warm," originally published in Fractured Lit, made the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions list.
Abandoned Mine published Fran McNulty's poem "Firing Squad."
Livina Press published N. West Moss's essay "The Rip Van Winkle Bridge."
James Preller's novel Fairy House, a choose-your-own-adventure story, is out now from Chooseco.
Carole Buggé appeared on the Author2Author podcast, hosted by Bill Kenower, to talk about her latest novel, and also about writing sketch comedy about her parents as a kid, befriending the guy on her college campus who refused to wear shoes in the winter, and learning about being an author by writing literary criticism.
The How Writers Write podcast featured Carole Buggé (under her author's name Carole Lawrence) talking about the creative process and why she makes her novel-writing students try their hands at poetry.
Gizmodo included Alanna Schubach's new novel The Nobodies on its list of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for Your Summer Reading Pleasure.
Amina Akhtar talked about her writing practice, her forthcoming novel Kismet, and V.C. Andrews with Advice To Writers.
Kristin Rockaway's forthcoming novel Smart Girl Summer is included on Fortune's list of Page-Turning Books You Should Read This Summer.
Fifty-Word Stories published N. West Moss's "Murmurings."
Teresa Wong's essay "Screaming and Watercolours" is included in the anthology Good Mom on Paper, released last month by Book*hug Press.
Contrary magazine published three of Fran McNulty's poems: "Mania," "On Memorizing Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "Departure."
For Salon, Julie Powell recapped The Julia Child Challenge, a show she called "very silly and goodhearted that made me roll my eyes and spring tears in roughly equal measure." Her final installments included "I Can Hear Julia Child's Voice in my Head Again" and "Omelets Are Hard to Master."
Rachel Simon's essay "I'm an Abortion Clinic Escort. Here's How Things Have Changed Since the Roe Leak" is up now at NBC Think.
Parade magazine published Mara Reinstein's article "21 Things You Might Not Know About E.T. to Celebrate the Movie's 40th Anniversary."
Them published Stephanie Nieves's article "The Ultimate Guide on How to Sext."
Roller skates, gardening time, self-care indulgences, and noodles — Melissa Petro asked moms what they really want for Mother's Day, for Insider.
Roundfire Books will release David Berner's novel Sandman: A Golf Tale on July 22nd.
"If you don't think Nature is sexually charged, stand next to my pear tree. You can hear the white blossoms open themselves wide and whisper throatily to each fat bee that zig-zags past, 'Pick me, pick me.' " N. West Moss wrote about "Chaos in the Garden," for the Saturday Evening Post.
Lara Ewen wrote about public libraries fighting to improve menstrual equity for American Libraries magazine, in her article "Period. End of Story."
Edward Einhorn adapted the classic Greek tragedy Iphigenia into a new graphic novel Iphigenia in Aulis, just released by Image Comics.
Best Small Fictions selected not one but two flash stories by María Alejandra Barrios for its 2022 anthology: "Pimento Season" and "Things Never Stay Warm."
"Memento Mori" by Fran McNulty won the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate's 2022 Poetry Competition.
The Walrus published Teresa Wong's essay "Screaming and Watercolours: I Turned My Toddler's Tantrums Into Art."
Arlaina Tibensky wrote about her late mother's frog problem for the New York Times.
Tor.com published Robert Repino's essay "Six Made-For-TV SFF Films That Actually Exist."
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine published Susan Breen's short story "A Tourist Dies in the Tower."
Rachel Simon made her debut as a crossword constructor for the New York Times, which may or may not feature clues about Rick Astley.
Now and Forever, the second novel in Angela Lam's Women of the Crush trilogy, will be released August 17th by The Wild Rose Press.
"Advice to copy editors at the Boston Globe: Never write 'the person died unexpectedly.' Everyone dies unexpectedly," writes Fran McNulty in her poem "Everyone Dies," for the Jewish Literary Journal.
Women on Writing published Laura Yeager's "On Being a Cancer Blogger" on their blog, The Muffin.
NBC Think published Rachel Simon's essay "Amy Schumer Gives Hair-Pulling Condition the Exposure Sufferers Like Me Need."
Anni Irish wrote "The Whitney Biennial Spotlights Video Artists Who Are Pushing the Medium Forward."
Literary Traveler published Irene Zabytko's essay "Gogol in Ukraine."
Julie Powell is recapping The Julia Child Challenge for Salon. Recent essays include "The Julia Child Challenge and the Mystique of One of America's Most Iconic Chefs" and "Julia Child's Secret Sauce and the Little Black Dresses of French Cuisine."
Oldster magazine published Blaise Allysen Kearsley's essay "A Jet All the Way."
Dodging the Rain published Fran McNulty's poem "Weight."
Rachel Simon created a rom-com themed crossword puzzle for Vulture.
Carole Buggé talks about researching the "vast canvas of New York City history" for her latest novel Cleopatra's Dagger in an interview with Writer's Digest.
First Clue Reviews gave a starred review to Lev A.C. Rosen's forthcoming novel Lavender House, saying "No reader who's made it through the first chapter could ever think of abandoning this magical novel." Forge Books will release Lev's mystery in October.
Complete Wellbeing published Angela Lam's essay "Am I a Good Mother?"
Michael Montlack proposed to comedian Amy Sedaris with a poem in Allium magazine.
The Jermyn Street Theatre in London staged a production of The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, written and directed by Edward Einhorn.
Cancer Wellness is publishing excerpts from Laura Yeager's chapbook Cancer Loot: The Stuff That Helped Me Survive Two Bouts of Cancer in Ten Years.
The New York Times reviewed Erin Entrada Kelly's new novel Those Kids From Fawn Creek, saying that in this novel "she is working at the top of the middle grade children's literature game."
María Alejandra Barrios's story "Alligator Girls" took second place in Flash Frog's Blue Frog Flash Fiction contest.
The Northwest Review published Michael Montlack's poem "Hitchcockian."
The Young-Howze Theater Journal nominated The Iron Heel, a three-part podcast adapted and produced by Edward Einhorn, for its Can You Hear Me Now? Audio Production of the Year.
"There is money available — all they have to do is allocate it," writes Melissa Petro in her article "I'm a Working Mom Who Has No Choice But to Homeschool My Kid. The Government Should Offer More Aid to Families Like Mine" for Business Insider.
Catapult magazine published Z Kennedy-Lopez's short story "Solomon's Knot."
N. West Moss's "Blue Bottles" is up now at 50-Word Stories.
Anita Gill interviewed Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about how writing is an investigation and so is reading, and why we need fiction in polarizing times, "because fiction is based on understanding over judgment," for The Rumpus.
Cure Today published Laura Yeager's essay "Can Reading Erotica Keep My Sexual Flame Burning After a Cancer Diagnosis?
Belt Magazine published Angie Chatman's essay "Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville."
Carole Buggé's latest mystery novel Cleopatra's Dagger is an Amazon First Read in Historical Fiction.
Jon Gingerich talked about the time he enraged the internet grammar mob, on Unprintable, the LitReactor podcast.
Thomas + Mercer will release Carole Buggé's mystery Cleopatra's Dagger (under her author's name Carole Lawrence) on April 1st.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published N. West Moss's essay "The '80s in the '80s" in a special all-New York issue.
Mystery Writers of America selected Susan Breen's short story "Banana Island" for its anthology Crime Hits Home, forthcoming in March from Hanover Square Press.
Jennifer Gennari's middle-grade novel Muffled is a finalist for the Georgia Children's Book Award.
Out There podcast featured Angie Chatman telling her story "Pandemic Sundays" about the life-changing experience of walking through Boston with a friend every weekend.
The Margins published Roohi Choudhry's flash fiction story "Five Scents."
Janine Annett tried several at-home seltzer makers and ranked them for us, with extra attention to fizziness, for the Wall Street Journal.
Jody Gray served as Music Director and composer for two animated series recently returned to television: Space Racers on Amazon Prime and Courage the Cowardly Dog now streaming on HBO Max.
Melissa Petro wrote "Three New York Teachers on the Endless Heartbreak and Stress of COVID-19" for Business Insider.
Locus magazine published a rave review of Jennifer Marie Brissett's latest novel Destroyer of Light, saying it's "the story the 21st century needs."
Publishers Weekly gave Carole Buggé's forthcoming mystery novel Cleoptra's Dagger a starred review, calling it an "excellent whodunit," with a heroine whose "sleuthing never strains credulity."
Angela Lam talks about senior softball, writing outside your comfort zone, and why you should "respect the need to lay fallow between big projects," in an interview with Awesome Gang.
Michael Montlack won the 2022 Saints and Sinners Poetry Award for his poem "Phantom Rain."
Harper Collins/Dey Street Books announced it will publish Rachel Simon's narrative nonfiction book Pickleball for All: Everything But the "Kitchen" Sink this August.
Teresa Wong's comic "Oh No, Have I Killed It?" is included in the anthology EVENT, 50 Years: Collected Notes On Writing.
Jennifer Marie Brissett has a short story in the forthcoming science fiction anthology Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, to be published in August by Macmillan.
Shearsman Books will release Carmen Bugan's poetry collection Time Being later this month.
Tor.com previewed Lev A.C. Rosen's latest novel Lavender House, complete with cover reveal. Lev's mystery is forthcoming in October from Forge Books.
N. West Moss's flash fiction "A Man (Not Her Husband)" won 50-Word Story's 2021 Story of the Year prize.
Cure Today published Laura Yeager's "Goodbye Cancer Displeasure, Hello Sexual Pleasure."
No Dear magazine published María Alejandra Barrios's poem "Phantom Li/mb."
Janine Annett tweeted about Cry January instead of Dry January, and it blew up. Her essay "Why My Viral 'Cry January' Tweet Resonated Resonated With So Many Parents" examines the various ways it struck a nerve, for Parents magazine.
Wild Rose Press will release Angela Lam's novel Love Again, the first book in the new series Women of the Crush, on February 28th.
National Catholic Reporter published Laura Yeager's essay "Confirming My Son During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Anni Irish wrote "Employees at New York City's Jewish Museum Vote to Unionize" for the Art Newspaper.
Kirkus reviewed Carole Buggé's mystery novel Cleopatra's Dagger (forthcoming from Thomas & Mercer under her author's name Carole Lawrence), saying "the complex, intrepid feminist heroine bodes well for future insallments."
This Week In New York named Alma Baya, written and directed by Edward Einhorn, the Best Futuristic Play in its Pandemic Awards, "celebrating the amazing innovation and creativity in dance, film, theater, food, opera, art, literature, music, and other entertainment since March 2020."
"It was beautiful here, even if it was trying to kill her." N. West Moss's comic short story "Peat Fires" is up now at Miniskirt Magazine.
Crime Reads named Amina Akhtar's novel Kismet (forthcoming in July from Thomas + Mercer) to its list of Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2022.
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's short story "Blue Martini" is selected for the anthology Coolest American Stories 2022.
The Rumpus named Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn its new Editor-In-Chief.
Rachel Simon wrote "When To Stop Therapy" for Teen Vogue.
Literary Hub named Amanda Oliver's forthcoming book Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library to its list of Most Anticipated Books of 2022.
The Art Newspaper published Anni Irish's article "Jeff Koons Accused of Appropriating Sculpture for 1989 Series Featuring His Ex-Wife."
Hobart Pulp published María Alejandra Barrios's short story "Anything But Tongue."
Syfy Wire featured Jennifer Marie Brissett and her new novel Destroyer of Light in its article "Bringing the Persephone Myth to Sci-Fi."
The Desert Sun featured Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and her new anthology in its feature story "In Palm Springs Noir, Local Authors Contribute Ominous Desert Tales."
"Mixing elements of poetry with razor-sharp observations and omnivorous references, Tate helped create a new kind of criticism that profoundly changed the field from the inside out." Anni Irish remembers musician and writer Greg Tate, who died December 7th, for The Art Newspaper.
Melissa Petro wrote "I Was Hit By a Car While Typing Emails on My Phone: It Made Me See My Relationship With Work Had to Change" for Business Insider.
CrimeReads interviewed Amina Akhtar about her forthcoming mystery novel Kismet, complete with cover reveal.
Scott Alexander Hess's novellas Lightning and The Root of Everything were chosen by St. Louis librarians as among the Best Books of 2021.
Jennifer Gennari's middle-grade novel Muffled is out now in paperback by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Shenandoah published Alanna Schubach's short story "Mr. Frog."
"Gene Wilder was introverted backstage. Carl Reiner was not." Mara Reinstein gets the good dish about the Broadway production of The Producers from actor Matthew Broderick, for Vulture.
Tor published Robert Repino's essay "Beyond the Beatles: George Harrison's Unexpected Connections to Science Fiction and Fantasy."
María Alejandra Barrios's flash fiction stories "Afterlife" and "Pimento Season" have been included in the anthology Moon City Review.
W magazine published Rachel Simon's essay "The Final Season of Six Feet Under Will Bring You Back to Life."
The Chicago Public Library named Erin Entrada Kelly's novel Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey to its 2021 list of Best Fiction for Younger Readers.
Jennifer Marie Brissett's latest novel Destroyer of Light has been named to several Best Books of the 2021 lists, including Kirkus's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Tor's Reviewers' Choice.
Rachel Simon curated the best episodes of the TV comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for Vulture.
Litbreak magazine published Adela Brito's short story "Babalú Blessings."
Shondaland published Rachel Simon's essay "When I Relearned to Drive, I Found Myself."
"That something happened to the church or the religion, rather than the church or the religion being responsible for what happened, is the overriding assumption of all such essays," writes Robert Repino in "So You Want to Write an Article Deflecting All Blame From Christianity: A Handy Guide" for Religion Dispatches.
Lev A.C. Rosen's YA novel Camp will be adapted as a feature film for HBO Max with actor/singer/director Billy Porter directing.
Mara Reinstein chose a dozen films for Parade magazine's definitive list of Must-Watch Holiday Movies so the internet will have something else to fight about.
Anita Gill's "My Father's Language," originally published in Kweli, has been named a Notable Essay of 2020 by the Best American Essays series.
The New Yorker published a cartoon by Teresa Wong.
Poets and Writers named Carmen Bugan's essay collection Poetry and the Language of Oppression to its list of the Best Books For Writers.
Rachel Simon interviewed YouTube vlogger-turned-actress Claudia Sulewski for W.
Shearsman Books announced it will publish Carmen Bugan's poetry collection Time Being — inspired by the coronavirus pandemic — in 2022.
Dollar Store Magazine published Josh Sippie's short story "Swamp Creature Discovers Listerine Pocket Packs."
The New York Times reviewed N. West Moss's new memoir Flesh and Blood, calling it "an intimate and ruminative portrait of life..."
Robert Repino wrote "A Pre-9/11 Action Movie With a Muslim Hero Shows What Could Have Been" for the Oxford University Press blog.
Erin Entrada Kelly's novel Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey is one of Parents magazine's 2021 Best Chapter Books for Kids.
Business Insider published Melissa Petro's article "Three People Who Rage-Quit Their Jobs Share How and Why They Don't Regret It."
Jessica Sticklor's article "How to Sell More Books at a Virtual Book Launch" is up now at The Writer magazine (under her author's name Jessica Stilling.)
Cure Today published Laura Yeager's blog post "A Survivor Chuckles at Microaggressions Toward Her Post-Cancer Body."
Seth Fried's "Digestive System" has been named a Distinguished Story of 2020 by the Best American Short Stories series.
Publishers Weekly named Noah Ballard a 2021 Stars to Watch Honoree.
Bradley Publishing released Benjamin Buchholz's novel Sirens of Manhattan.
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's short story “Noise” has been selected for the crime-fiction anthology Shotgun Honey Presents: Recoil, out now from Down and Out Books.
Seth Fried won a 2021 Pushcart Prize for his short story "Trezzo."
Gloria interviewed Amina Akhtar about success, misery, and reinvention, both in writing and in life.
Monk: Art and the Soul published Carmen Bugan's essay "Lumina Mea."
Casandra López's essay "Fragment: Strength" is included in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays, released last month by the University of Nebraska Press.
Kuros Charney's play The Gods of Great Men is a finalist for Best Stage Play in the Austin Film Festival 2021 Script Competition.
Janine Annett's humor piece "FAQ About Your CSA" is up now at McSweeney's.
Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today. Her recent posts include "Sometimes, With Cancer, What Goes Around Comes Around."
Dan Lopez's novel The Show House is included on Bookshop's Latinx Fiction Staff Favorites list.
Audobon magazine published Tal McThenia's exploration of the 1919 disappearance of two ornithologists, "The Strange, True Story of John Williams and Charles Pennock."
Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing, announced it will publish Jon Gingerich's novel The Appetite Factory in 2022.
Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, announced it will publish N. West Moss's middle grade novel Birdy in 2024.
The Iron Heel, a three-part podcast production adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn, is nominated for six Audio Verse Awards, including Best Audio Fiction Prodcution.
Lara Ewen wrote about building resilience and disaster recovery in her article "Libraries Rebound in the Wake of Hurricane Ida," for American Libraries magazine.
The Believer magazine published Teresa Wong's comic "Piano Lessons."
Michael Backus's novel The Vanishing Point is out now from Cactus Moon Publishing.
SmokeLong Quarterly published Maria Alejandra Barrios's short story "Plants of Paradise."
"I tend to manipulate time as a part of the landscapes of my current stories and novels...unraveling the false perception of linear time within a narrative to illuminate what is and what was and what might be." Jennifer Marie Brissett writes about how her novels do (and don't) fit into the genre of Afrofuturism, for Locus magazine.
"How often do you really get urgent, must-remember ideas in the shower, anyway? Turns out, a lot." For the Daily Beast, Rachel Simon explains why she bought a waterproof notepad, and thinks every writer should invest in one, too.
Kirkus gave a starred review to Jennifer Marie Brissett's novel Destroyer of Light, (released last month by Tor Books), calling it "richly developed and profound." Meanwhile, Book Riot named it to its list of Twenty Must-Read Space Fantasy Books.
Blaise Allysen Kearsley's essay "The First Time it Happened" has been selected for the anthology Nonwhite and Woman: 153 Micro Essays About Being in The World, forthcoming from Woodhall Press in September 2022.
The Writer magazine published Josh Sippie's article "The Power of First Lines in Fiction."
Booklist included Lev A.C. Rosen and his novel Camp in its discussion of the special challenges of writing romance for teens, "Let's Talk About Love: A Teen Romance Roundtable."
Kuros Charney won the Folio magazine Editor's Prize for Fiction for his story "Shah Mat."
Susan Breen's short story "One Woman Watch" was longlisted for the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Prize.
Edward Einhorn's adaptation of Iphigenia in Aulis, the play by Euripedes first performed in ancient Greece in 405 BC, will be released as a graphic novel by Image Comics in May 2022.
Flash Frog published Maria Alejandra Barrios's short story "Home-Traveling."
Micklegate, Snickelways, and the Niles Crane Effect — Carole Buggé covers these issues, as well as her latest mystery novel Death and Sensibility, in an interview with The Big Thrill.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published N. West Moss's essay "The Lei."
Brevity magazine published Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn's essay "Friendship" in its fall issue.
Insider published Lara Ewen's essay "I'm Childless by Choice. I Learned From My Family That Not Everyone Needs to Be a Parent."
Jennifer Marie Brissett's latest novel Destroyer of Light, described as The Matrix meets the myth of Persephone, comes out October 12th from Tor Books.
The New York Daily News published Edward Einhorn's essay "A 9/11 Victim, Killed 20 Years Later."
Jon Reiner directed Just the Facts on Vax: Healthcare Experts Respond to Questions about the COVID-19 Vaccine, a public-service series featuring leading doctors, researchers, and public health directors.
Robert Repino's craft article "Consequences as an Engine of Storytelling" is up now at File 770.
The San Francisco Book Review included Jessica Sticklor's recent novel The Weary God of Ancient Travelers (published under her author's name Jessica Stilling) in its roundup of "Books to Travel Without Leaving Your Chaise Lounge."
The New York Times published Rachel Simon's article "Prepping for the Year of Many, Many Weddings."
McSweeney's published Janine Annett's "How To Log In To The Student Portal."
Susan Breen analyzed the different covers for two editions of her novel Maggie Dove, recently re-released in paperback, for the Missdemeansors blog.
Scott Alexander Hess's new historical novellas, Lightning and The Root of Everything, have been reviewed by Kirkus ("A moving pair of historical tales, as philosophically astute as they are dramatically gripping.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( "Characters...readers will find familiar, in language that tells the stories well."), and the Masters Review ("In these pages, every loss is a becoming.").
My Mother's Severed Head, a new play directed by Richard Caliban, opens at Theatre Row in New York City on September 10th.
Blackstone Publishing announced it will publish Alanna Schubach's debut novel The Nobodies in June 2022.
Mara Reinstein interviewed actor Blair Underwood, and asked him all about the big cookie episode on Sex and the City, among other things, for Vulture.
Shearsman Books announced it will publish Carmen Bugan's poetry collection Time Being in 2022.
Kirkus gave a starred review to N. West Moss's memoir Flesh & Blood, (forthcoming from Algonquin Books in October), saying it's "a healing balm [that] lights a path through grief and illness." Meanwhile, Publishers Weekly is calling it, "powerful," "poetic," and "enriching."
Kelly Caldwell's craft article "If I Want Your Opinion, I'll Pay You For It" is included in the anthology Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction, out now from Hippocampus Books.
Tangerine Press has released Bestiary, a chapbook of three short stories by Seth Fried.
The Tor/Forge blog posted an excerpt from Jennifer Marie Brissett's novel The Destroyer of Light, coming from Tor Books in October.
Lara Ewen offers advice, which may or may not involve bourbon, to Christina Applegate and anyone else newly diagnosed with MS, over at Insider.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published N. West Moss's short story "She Is a Mess."
New York Times theater critic Elisabeth Vincentelli included Edward Einhorn's latest play Alma Baya in her round-up of don't-miss indy theater productions, "Theater to Stream: Offerings on the Fringe of the Edinburgh Fringe."
Anni Irish interviewed author and performance artist Iván Monalisa Ojeda about "walking while trans laws," writing truly original short fiction, and living with two spirits, for Observer.
Kristin Rockaway's novel Life, Unscheduled (forthcoming this month from Montlake) is an Amazon First Reads selection.
Shondaland published Rachel Simon's essay "Simone Biles Is More Than Her Accomplishments — And So Are All of Us."
Maggie Dove, the first novel in Susan Breen's cozy mystery series, has been re-released in paperback.
St. Louis magazine featured Scott Alexander Hess in its Read This column, recommending his new set of two novellas Lightning and The Root of Everything, out now from Rebel Satori Press.
Jessica Sticklor and her latest (and forthcoming) novels are the subject of a profile in the Brattleboro Reformer.
Janine Annett's graphic essay "I Am Wearing-Pajamas-At-7-p.m. Years Old" is up now at McSweeney's.
Several publications have reviewed the anthology Palm Springs Noir, edited by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, including the Los Angeles Times, which said it "leaves the sliding glass door open for ghosts present as well as past;" Kirkus, "an engaging mix of the good, the bad, and the off-kilter;" and the Orange County Register, "dark and dangerous."
"Someone must also be tasked with gazing at the clouds." Carmen Bugan's essay "Why Literature Must Be Part of the Language of Recovery from Crisis," up now at the Oxford University Press blog.
The Revealer published Robert Repino's essay "Good Places, Uploads, and Reimagining the Afterlife in Popular Culture."
