Susan Rich, Author Of BLUE ATLAS Featured On The Slowdown
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 2, 2026
Date: July 1, 2026
Finding true healing after grief requires intentional steps and the courage to integrate new practices into our daily lives. Award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach Laing Rikkers shares how the […]
Date: June 29, 2026
She discusses “the realities behind America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Date: June 29, 2026
“A conversation on mothering and the action of it, and how many of us are mothering outside our traditional knowledge of what it means to mother.”
Date: June 23, 2026
In the dark bunker where we are both trapped, my dad struggles against the chair he is roped to. He wriggles one arm free from beneath the ropes, reaching for […]
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 9, 2026
“I really enjoyed the prose style of Kill Dick. I loved how the sentences are always on the move, manic & fast, constantly on to the next.”
Date: June 3, 2026
“I’ve been a drug addict since before I hit puberty. I guess this is what Susie Vogelman taught me about my addiction and my brother’s addiction. Just how simple the […]
Date: August 31, 2020
Daugherty’s engrossing latest (after the collection American Originals) focuses on the small community of Midland, Tex., in the late 1950s as it reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school […]
Date: August 19, 2020
Shearn’s luminous latest (after The Mermaid from Brooklyn) follows a self-avowed librarian spinster; a man researching the history of his father’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn, home; and the ghost of an orphaned […]
Date: August 17, 2020
Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy gives readers a portrait of a young mother and fledgling anthropologist caught in a remote outpost in the midst of World War Two. Two of Liu’s three previous […]
Date: August 10, 2020
En la novela Cerdos, de Johanna Stoberock, hay una isla innombrada en algún mar desconocido, cuatro niños se dan a la tarea de recoger la basura que llega a la orilla […]
Date: August 3, 2020
The stories in Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss are playful, surreal, sometimes dark, and always magical. This wonderful collection of inventive queer fabulist stories and flash fictions won the 2018 Grace […]
Date: July 30, 2020
In Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction, one of the main characters, Peter, a member of the Makah tribe, talks about the past as a physical place that can hold you. In the […]
Date: July 29, 2020
The Taipei of Yu-Han Chao’s debut story collection Sex & Taipei City both bustles and glistens. It’s a city of industry and aspiration—skyscrapers and metro trains, prep schools and department stores. Yet […]
Date: July 27, 2020
Marie Tozier’s new book, Open the Dark, is a lyrical guide to the life in Northwest Alaska experienced by the Iñupiaq poet and her family. It touches on themes that can be […]
Date: July 20, 2020
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the language of fault, rift and fracture as her […]
Date: July 20, 2020
In part one (titled “Suitors”) of Rivkin’s sharp debut, a long poem in sections cataloguing his mother’s appalling boyfriends, the speaker recalls one priceless specimen who, for Halloween, dressed as […]