White Cat, Black Dog

Tue 28 Mar 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

We’re celebrating as today Kelly’s new collection White Cat, Black Dog comes out!

Kelly will be reading at the Brookline Booksmith tonight, followed by a q&a with Holly Black and at Greenlight Bookstore on April 4, followed by a q&a with Carmen Maria Machado. There are also a couple of online events — including one with Leigh Bardugo on Friday, March 30.

Link to Kelly's event page


The Curator

Fri 10 Mar 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Owen King expanded his story “The Curator” — first published in LCRW 31 — into a novel which came out this week. He’ll be at Book Moon next week, Thursday, March 16, on his way to his in-person reading and then Q&A with Kelly at 7 pm at the Odyssey. Maybe we can get him to sign some LCRWs, too.

Here’s part of The CuratorDexter Palmer’s review of The Curator in the NYT and then Kelly’s comments:

“[The Curator] has its own smooth lyricism and evocative imagery, helping the book’s pages turn quickly. King has a knack for colorful metaphors and thoughtfully considered perspective. This novel is richly imagined, its surface pleasures deliberately subverted by the bleak suggestion at its core: that a successful organized attempt to reduce inequity will have to overcome not just the inertia of a nation’s politics, but human nature.” —The New York Times

“The Curator feels a little like Owen King somehow brought a curiosity cabinet to life. There are terrors here, but also marvels and delights, and a set of the most interesting characters I’ve met in some time. Put The Curator on the same shelf as other classics of the uncanny and uncategorizable, like Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast. I loved it.” —Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble


Ayize in Locus & @ City Lights

Fri 3 Mar 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Pick up this month’s Locus and you’ll see on the cover there’s an interview with Ayize Jama-Everett — there’s also an interview with Nisi Shawl and a review of Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places, and so much more — which covers his novels, comics, the craft of writing, Black joy, and more:

Screenshot of interview header

And City Lights just posted their excellent reading and Q&A event with Ayize Jama-Everett & Tân Khánh which I recommend for a relaxed and fascinating chat:


Closed to book submissions

Wed 1 Mar 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

We have slowed down our publishing schedule and as of today, March 1, we are closed to book submissions for the foreseeable future.