My Own Devices by Dessa
My Own Devices, rap artist Dessa’s debut memoir, follows a loose but cohesive chronicle of her introduction into rap music, her growth as an artist and her complicated and fraught… Read more »
A Fan Letter on Minnesota Writers
My Own Devices, rap artist Dessa’s debut memoir, follows a loose but cohesive chronicle of her introduction into rap music, her growth as an artist and her complicated and fraught… Read more »
Minnesota based writer, Louise Erdrich, creates a grippingly smart and thought-provoking narrative in her latest work, Future Home Of The Living God. In this epistolary novel, readers follow protagonist Cedar… Read more »
As our own planet begins to suffer from environmental changes, many are looking at the future we may soon be living. Andrew Deyoung’s novel, The Exo Project, while depicting a… Read more »
In Jane St. Anthony’s third middle-grade novel, Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart, we join eighth-grader Isabelle Day as she navigates loss and friendship in the compelling… Read more »
Dore Kiesselbach’s second collection of poetry, Albatross, often occupies violent subjects(familial trauma, deathly accidents, September 11th, and a shooting), but Kiesselbach is able to juxtapose that darkness with delight and… Read more »
One might think of Anthony Bukoski’s Head of the Lakes as a love letter to Superior, Wisconsin. This beautiful and meditative collection of short stories highlights the complexities of the… Read more »
In his debut collection, Citizen Illegal, José Olivarez manages to be unrelentingly blunt about racism, gentrification, and poverty in poems that are characterized by playfulness. This dynamic is evident in… Read more »
Cataloging the Flow: Elegy is a final masterpiece from the late John Calvin Rezmerski. The book—made up of a single 30-page poem spanning across 3 sections—evokes the serpentine movement of… Read more »
Set in the nineteenth century United States, KateLynn Hibbard’s poetry collection Simples chronicles the female experience on the western frontier. From perspectives settler, immigrant, and native, Simples is equal parts… Read more »
Believe the hype—Hieu Minh Nguyen’s second collection is a momentous event in the poetry of now. Its title, Not Here, is a paradox of sorts, in which the immediacy of… Read more »