In Which I Asks the Facebooks

Wed 11 Jan 2017 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin


Tender — the secret knowledge post

Wed 11 Jan 2017 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Tender cover - click to view full sizeYesterday I got a lovely email from David Connerley Nahm author of Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky who had this to say about Sofia Samatar’s forthcoming debut collection, Tender:

“The stories in Sofia Samatar’s Tender are perfect and profound works of art written with the impossible ease of someone who has unlimited access to the secret knowledge of the exact right order in which words are supposed to go. The stories ring in sympathy with the reader like the favorite stories of childhood or youth or old age: Familiar and strange in the same proportion. These stories give you several new lives to live and with each reading–because you will read all of them several times–you discover new tales and new possibilities hidden within and you are filled endlessly with the pure pleasure of great literature.”


Best Best American

Tue 10 Jan 2017 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Best Worst American cover - click to view full sizeJuan Martinez’s collection Best Worst American winds its way toward publication — well, it’s at the printer so fingers crossed all goes well — and for that final cover that I made with help from Ursula and designed with Kelly we have a quote from Kelly herself:

“A master of the absurd who serves up contemporary American life in rare, blistering slices.”

Juan will be reading in Chicago at Women & Children First and then with Kelly at Politics and Prose in DC during ye olde AWP Conference — and signing at our table in the bookcity — next month. See you there, if DC is still standing.


“If a library came alive…

Mon 9 Jan 2017 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Ben Loory just sent this about Sofia Samatar’s first story collection, Tender, coming in April:

“If a library came alive, and spent ten thousand years walking up and down upon the earth, exploring and dreaming and falling in and out of love, it might write stories like these.”

To which I say, wow! Also: true.

Review copies going out now. Available for download on Edelweiss soon. Watch LibraryThing for more advance copies.


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