15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Summer

Small presses have been publishing excellent work by writers who you may not know (yet). From compelling short stories to heart-wrenching novels, these books will take you on a journey across states and countries, into the past or to the future, as well as deep into the minds of richly-drawn characters.  Braddock Avenue Books: The Company […] The post 15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Summer appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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A Small Press Book We Love: Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

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A Small Press Book We Love: Naples 1349 by Amedeo Feniello

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A Small Press Book We Love: Pipe Dreams on Pico by Brent L. Smith

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A Small Press Book We Love: The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

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A Small Press Book We Love: That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction

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A Small Press Book We Love: Wings in Time by Callie Garnett

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The Most Popular Publishing News of the Week

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Shubha Sunder on Writing an Immigrant Story Through the Lens of a Visa Year

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A Small Press Book We Love: The Bear by Andrew Krivak

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In “Woodworking,” A Trans Teen and a Closeted Teacher Forge A Bond in Rural America

Emily St. James’s debut novel Woodworking chronicles the developing friendship between a 16-year-old trans girl and her recently-out-to-herself English teacher in Mitchell, South Dakota in the months leading up to the 2016 election. In a town like Mitchell, secrets are few and far between,... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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A Small Press Book We Love: The President’s Room by Ricardo Romero

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Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published

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Harper Lee’s Early Short Stories to Be Published for the First Time

Before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee had written short stories in which she explored some of its themes and characters. Continue reading at The New York Times

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A Small Press Book We Love: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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A Small Press Book We Love: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Can the Classic Road Trip Novel Survive the Climate Crisis?

Climate change is conspicuously absent from most realist, literary fiction set in the present day. Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters are part of our daily lives, yet they’re absent, save for brief mentions of a news clip for a college protest from much of our... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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Exclusive Cover Reveal of “These Memories Do Not Belong to Us” by Yiming Ma

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A Small Press Book We Love: Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck

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COEXISTENCE by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Fall in love with this collection of short stories centering Indigenous love and what it is to make a relationship. Continue reading at Book Riot

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