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Daily #SmallPress #books: What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric essays on neurodivergence & neurofatherhood by Shane Neilson (Palimpsest Press) https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/what-to-feel-how-to-feel-shane-neilson/ -and- La doudou cherche et trouve by Claudia Larochelle and Maira Chiodi (VLB Éditeur) https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/la-doudou-cherche-et-trouve

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Book cover for What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric essays on neurodivergence & neurofatherhood by Shane Neilson (Palimpsest Press), with a drawing of a brain in stylized dots and dashes against a yellow background. Focusing on non-neurotypicality, Neilson investigates his supposed difference of self while also holding to account society’s construction of that difference, moving from his early childhood to adulthood and then back again in terms of a neurodivergent fathering of his own son. Covering subjects that have yet to receive attention in Canadian literature, including how the medical profession discriminates against its own, Neilson’s poetic accounts of stigma and self-discovery interleavened with literary history mark a first in our letters. https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/what-to-feel-how-to-feel-shane-neilson/

Book cover for La doudou cherche et trouve (The cuddly toy seeks and finds) by Claudia Larochelle and Maira Chiodi (VLB Éditeur), a teddy bear search-and-find book in French. Cover shows a wide variety of objects behind a magnifying glass. https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/la-doudou-cherche-et-trouve?variant=46196683145473

Just posted to #Metafilter: https://www.metafilter.com/208681/-An-interlude-for-some-American-small-presses-

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Daily #SmallPress #books: Cheer by Laura Doyle Péan (Les Éditions de la Bagnole) https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/cheer -and- Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee (Stonehewer) https://www.stonehewerbooks.com/upcoming

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Book cover for Cheer by Laura Doyle Péan (Les Éditions de la Bagnole), a book of poems in French, with the word CHEER in white faded university-font against a solid blue background. https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/cheer

Book cover for Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee (Stonehewer), a writing craft book by the author of Civil Elegies and Alligator Pie. Title text on a solid blue background, with a music staff with regularly-spaced black dots and one white x where one missing dot should be. https://www.stonehewerbooks.com/upcoming

Just posted to #Metafilter, Quebecois small presses Baraka Books, DC Books, and Véhicule Press: https://www.metafilter.com/208672/-Trois-petites-presses-canadiennes-8-

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Two daily #SmallPress #books from Drawn & Quarterly: Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/dog-days/ -and- GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/gleem/

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Book cover for GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco (Drawn & Quarterly), with a face divided into squares against a yellow background. Imbued with cyberpunk attitude and in the rebellious tradition of afrofuturism, GLEEM is drawn with a fierce momentum hurtling towards a future world. Carrasco’s distinct cinematic style layers detailed panels and spreads, creating a multiplicity of perspectives, at once dizzying and hypnotic. Vignettes unspool in proximity to our own social realities and expand into the outer layers of possibility. Whether in the club or a robot repair workshop, the characters in these three interconnected stories burst across frames until they practically step off the page. https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/gleem/

Book cover for Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn & Quarterly), with a variety of gray dogs against a yellow background, and the text "from the author of The Naked Tree & The Waiting". The author of Grass returns with a profound tale of family. Yuna never wanted to adopt a dog. But with her partner in mourning–and in desperate need of a boost in morale–she gives in to his humble request. And in the grand tradition of reluctant pet owners, she and their puppy soon become inseparable. The young couple even goes so far as to relocate from Seoul to soothe their new canine pal’s anxiety. After all, there’s nothing like a move to the country to set yourself right. Right? https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/dog-days/

Just posted to #Metafilter, Winnipeg small presses ARP Books, At Bay Press, and Signature Editions: https://www.metafilter.com/208656/-Canadian-small-press-hat-trick-6-One-Great-City-edition-

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11/12 Blue Marrow by Louise Bernice Halfe, Encounters with Men by Bob Ostertag, In the Belly of the Night and Others Poems by Irma Pineda, trans Wendy Call & The Third Temple by Yishai Sarid, trans. Yardenne Greenspan

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Book cover for In the Belly of the Night and Others Poems (Pluralia Ediciones), with a roughly-drawn cheetah snarking against a blue background. Irma Pineda's poems and Wendy Call's translations evoke tragedy and celebrate the ways in which humanity is constructed from dreams, tradition, and nature. https://pluralia.com.mx/producto/in-the-belly-of-the-night-and-others-poems-en-el-vientre-de-la-noche-y-otros-poemas-ndaani-gueela-ne-xhupa-diidxaguie/

Book cover for Blue Marrow by Louise Bernice Halfe, Sky Dancer (Kegedonce Press), with women in long dresses dancing around a bright sun, over ground covered in snakes. A beautifully redesigned new edition of the critically acclaimed poetry collection by Canada's new Parliamentary Poet Laureate. https://kegedonce.com/books/blue-marrow/

Book cover for The Third Temple by Yishai Sarid, trans. Yardenne Greenspan (Restless Books), with a white-and-gold temple splattered with blood against a blue background. In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Winner of the prestigious Bernstein Prize, The Third Temple plunges readers into a tempest of fanaticism, betrayal, and destruction. Where does the power of man end and the power of God begin? With chilling resonance, this vivid novel from one of Israel’s leading authors sounds an unforgettable warning amidst rising extremism. https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-third-temple

Book cover for Encounters with Men by Bob Ostertag (Black Lawrence Press), with a drawing of two naked men kissing while standing in waist-high water. Both men are superimposed with a map of North America. Bob Ostertag writes of the men he has known in stories shot through with deep love and deep violence, sex often at the core. Here, we encounter the worst of the AIDS epidemic and the best of human behavior. https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/encounters-with-men/

10/12 The Familialists by T. T. Madden, Louder Than the Lies by Ellie Yang Camp, Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven & Village Weavers by Myriam J.A. Chancy

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Book cover for Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love by Ellie Yang Camp (Heyday), showing a Picasso-esque painting of a female face in primary colours. A primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity. https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/louder-than-the-lies/

Book cover for Personal Score, a collection of essays by Ellen van Neerven (Two Dollar Radio), showing a duck, fish, mushrooms, butterflies, a bicycle and a woman kicking a socer ball, all against a bright yellow fuzzy circle in an orange background. Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity is a vital and deeply personal testament to self, family, community, culture, and sport. https://twodollarradio.com/products/personal-score

Book cover for The Familialists by T. T. Madden (Off Limits Press LLC), with a drawing of a suburban bungalow with a red sportcar in the driveway and an American flag furled on the lawn, and a man in suit pants and shirt on the lawn in front of a white picket fence, surrounded by overturned and broken furniture and blood stains. Sorrel follows the calls for help from her ex, Maud, to Trinity Springs, an uncanny Americana neighborhood that she cannot find any record of actually existing. A place that defies the laws of physics. A place of eerily smiling faces, white-picket fences, and manicured lawns. A place where she, and only she, is warned not to go outside after sundown. To free Maud from the grip of the town, and to escape a personal and terrifying subjugation, Sorrel must face a monster out of America’s past, and the people who are helping that monster claw its way back to the present. https://www.offlimitspress.com/shop-1

Book cover for Village Weavers by Myriam J.A. Chancy (Tin House Books), with lush sunflowers and leaves against a coral background. In 1940s’ Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship—until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. https://tinhouse.com/book/village-weavers/

9/12 Being Heumann by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner, Seeds Are For Sharing by Dawn Smoke, The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri & The Wildcat Behind Glass by Alki Zei, trans. Karen Emmerich

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Book cover for Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner (Beacon Press), with the author in a wheelchair surrounded by roses and other flowers against a golden background. One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. https://www.beacon.org/Being-Heumann-P1691.aspx

Book cover for The Wildcat Behind Glass by Alki Zei, trans. Karen Emmerich (Restless Books), with a drawing of wildcat with one blue eye and one brown one, towering over simplified buildings. People are standing in front of the buildings, their backs to the viewer, looking up at the cat. For Melia and her sister Myrto, summer means a break from Grandfather’s history lessons and weeks of running free at the seaside with their ragtag group of friends. Best of all, cousin Nikos will visit and tell his fabulous stories about the taxidermied wildcat, which opens its blue glass eye when it wants to do good deeds and its black one when it makes trouble. Set in Greece during the 1930s, when the nation was torn apart by fascism, this is an unforgettable tale of family, humanity, and what it means to be free. From its 1963 release to the dozens of international editions and honors that followed including a Mildred L. Batchelder Award, the novel has enchanted generations of young readers. Now, a fresh English translation—the first in over 50 years—breathes new life into the timeless story. https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-wildcat-behind-glass

Book cover for Seeds Are For Sharing by Dawn Smoke, ill. Jackie Traverse (Medicine Wheel Publishing), with a drawing of two seated figures seen from behind, the older one embracing the younger, surrounded by winding flower motifs against a golden background. In this innovative blend of poetry and story, Ojibway and Mohawk Elder Dawn Smoke shares all that lives within her heart, mind, and soul. Unwavering in her honesty, Dawn is a protector of Mother Earth and fierce advocate against the oppression of Indigenous people. She offers moments from her past—from surviving the sixties scoop, exploring Turtle Island, to unearthing genetic memory. Her sacred journey of healing reminds us that truth has an inexplicable way of finding us. This striking, spoken-word memoir speaks to the devastating realities of colonization and radiates with the resilience found within Spirit, culture and community. https://shop.medicinewheelpublishing.com/products/seeds-are-for-sharing

Book cover for The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by former refugee Dina Nayeri (Catapult Books), with a yellow flower growing out of exposed dirty roots against a golden background. Nayeri confronts notions like “the swarm,” and, on the other hand, “good” immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis. A finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction. https://books.catapult.co/books/ungrateful-refugee-the/

8/12 The Body Papers by Grace Talusan, Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood by Bradley Sides, Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk & Sundown in San Ojeula by M.M Olivas

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Book cover for Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk (Meekling Press), with a bearded person swaddled in an orange coat. An exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay, a book about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang. https://meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/

Book cover for The Body Papers: A Memoir by Grace Talusan (Restless Books), with a paper doll torn out of graph paper and police records. At the bottom, text says "Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing". Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse. https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-body-papers

Book cover for Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood by Bradley Sides (Montag Press), with drawings of crocodiles with their mouths hanging open and tears falling from their eyes. Bradley Sides merges the South with the weird in his latest collection of magical realism short stories: a boy creates a guide to his beloved pond monster, a parent weighs the consequences of the coming apocalypse, a young woman rejects ownership of her vampire family’s farm. https://www.montagpress.com/books-1/crocodile-tears-didn%E2%80%99t-cause-the-flood

Book cover for Sundown in San Ojeula by M.M Olivas (Lanternfish Press), with the green forepaws of a monster with bright red nails pacing toward the viewer. Against the black background, there's also a cactus to one side. When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect fills her with dread. The isolated desert town was the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, the companion of wraiths and ghosts. Yet it may also hold the secret to making peace with a dark family history and a complicated personal and cultural identity. https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela

7/12 Feeding the Ghosts by Rahul Mehta, Prosthetic Memories by Hyaesin Yoon, Strange Flowers by Bryan Byrdlong & Undocumented Motherhood by Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

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Book cover for Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World by Hyaesin Yoon (Duke UP), with ceramic ovals that suggest flowers or organs branching off from a white ceramic structure that suggests bones or flower stems. Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, and technologies across South Korea and the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Interrogating a variety of body-technology interfaces, Yoon outlines an emergent mode of prosthetic memory in which human memory is extended into both machines and animals and narrates the countermemories of racialized, gendered, diasporic, queer, and marginalized human and nonhuman others that work against the violent and isolating biopolitical and neoliberal forces in contemporary society. https://www.dukeupress.edu/prosthetic-memories

Book cover for Strange Flowers, poems by Bryan Byrdlong (YesYes Books), with dried wildflowers artfully falling from a black sculpture of a human with a large head and tiny body. Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically in response to fear of Black people in America, the poetry in this collection uses the idea of the zombie to offer an unbiased view of Black struggle, the zombie being a suit sometimes forced upon Black people and sometimes worn willingly. https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/strange-flowers

Feeding the Ghosts: Poems by Rahul Mehta (The University Press of Kentucky): A profoundly moving poetry collection that explores Mehta’s South Asian and Appalachian culture, their Queerness, their relationships with self and others, race, privilege, and a deep admiration of nature and the spiritual realm. https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813198804/feeding-the-ghosts/

Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing by Elizabeth Farfán-Santos (University of Texas Press): Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos spent five years with Claudia. As she listened to Claudia's experiences, she recalled her own mother's story, another life molded by migration, the US-Mexico border, and the quest for a healthy future on either side. A braided narrative that reveals what remains undocumented in the motherhood of Mexican women who find themselves making impossible decisions and multiple sacrifices as they build a future for their families. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477326138/

6/12 Dreaming Alongside & When We Are Kind by Monique Gray Smith, A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett & Freedom By Force by Therese Harasymiw

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Book cover for Freedom By Force: The History of Slave Rebellions by Therese Harasymiw (Greenhaven Publishing LLC*), with a depiction of slaves being dragged back to slavery by soldiers. https://greenhavenpublishing.com/title/Freedom-By-Force

Book cover for A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett (Arsenal Pulp Press) with hands coming out of holes in a dirty swirl of brown. Short stories by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Little Fish. https://www.akpress.org/a-dream-of-a-woman.html

Book cover for Dreaming Alongside by Monique Gray Smith (Orca Book), with a child reaching for a large dragonfly. On the English-only version of this book, available at https://www.orcabook.com/Dreaming-Alongside, the dragonfly's wings say Dreaming (top) and Alongside (bottom), but on the bilingual Plans Cree and English version pictured and available https://www.orcabook.com/Dreaming-Alongside-%c3%aa-paw%c3%a2tamahk, the dragonfly's wings say Dreaming Alongside (top) and e-pawatamakh (bottom, with a circumflex over the e and second a). This children's book follows your winged guide to visit the places and things that can help you find strength in the present and imagine your amazing future.

Book cover for When We Are Kind by Monique Gray Smith (Orca), showing a group of six people sitting in a circle on grass, surrounded by flowers, while one beats a drum and sings. Illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt and translated by Mildred Walters. When We Are Kind celebrates simple acts of everyday kindness and encourages children to explore how they feel when they initiate and receive acts of kindness in their lives. Celebrated author Monique Gray Smith has written many books on the topics of resilience and reconciliation and communicates an important message through carefully chosen words for readers of all ages. Beautifully illustrated by artist Nicole Neidhardt, this book encourages children to be kind to others and to themselves. This bilingual book includes full text in both English and Diné. https://www.orcabook.com/When-We-Are-Kind-Nih%c3%a1%c3%a1daahwiin%c3%adt%c3%adigo

5/12 Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Fighting Mad by Krystale E. Littlejohn, A Question of Belonging by Hebe Uhart, trans. Anna Vilner & Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis

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Book cover for Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade ed. by Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger (University of California Press), with a raised fist meeting a judge's gavel, in bold white and yellow text against a red background. A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396777/fighting-mad

Book cover for A Question of Belonging: Crónicas by Hebe Uhart, trans. Anna Vilner (Archipelago Books), with a photo of a poodle lying in front of a statue of a lion. "It was a year of great discovery for me, learning about these people and their homes, " Hebe Uhart writes in the opening story of A Question of Belonging, a collection of texts that traverse Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, and beyond. Discoveries sprout and flower throughout Uhart’s oeuvre, but nowhere more so than in her crónicas, Uhart’s preferred method of storytelling by the end of her life. https://archipelagobooks.org/book/a-question-of-belonging/

Book cover for Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Pluto Press), with bold black and white text against a red background. A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347851/elite-capture/

Book cover for Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books), with title text in white and black on red. In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1437-freedom-is-a-constant-struggle

4/12 A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Wrong is Not My Name by Erica N. Cardwell & Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora

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Book cover for Wrong is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art by Erica N. Cardwell (Feminist Press), with a folk-art-style painting of a dining table set with various covered dishes and baskets of fruit. A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art. https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/wrong-is-not-my-name

Book cover for The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel (book*hug), with the title and author text in various colours reminiscent of late '60s/early '70s fashion, with a VW bus between them. Amy is a new mother, navigating the fog of those bewildering early days and struggling with a role she feels ill-prepared for. It’s the first time in a decade that she hasn’t been living the busy life of a successful children’s musician, and her sense of self is unravelling. To make matters worse, her former bandmates have seemingly abandoned her. https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lindsay-zier-vogel/the-fun-times-brigade-by-lindsay-zier-vogel/

Book cover for Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora (Copper Canyon Press), with a photo of a long, tall border wall against a cloudy sky, and an orange sticker saying, "Winner of the Whiting Award." Sometimes poetry is able to convey depth and rawness of emotion in ways that prose simply cannot. Such is the case with Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied, which is his reflection on his own immigration story of crossing the border alone to meet his parents in the U.S. at the age of 9. https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/unaccompanied-by-javier-zamora/

Book cover for A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib (Tin House Books), depicting a black man pouring water from a halved coconut over his head. Poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. https://tinhouse.com/book/a-fortune-for-your-disaster/

3/12 Unapologetic by Charlene Carruthers, Three Worlds by Avi Shlaim, A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal & Queering Families by Tamara Lea Spira

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Book cover for Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers (Beacon Press), with bold text against strips of bold colours in orange, green, and black. A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. https://www.beacon.org/Unapologetic-P1385.aspx

Book cover for Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim (Oneworld Publications), with text against green, turquoise, and orange backgrounds opposite photos of the author and his family in black and white. Quotes on the bottom say, "Enchanting" David Abulafia, Financial Times and "Remarkable" Max Hastings, The Sunday Times. In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. This memoir breathes life into an almost forgotten world. Weaving together the personal and the political, Three Worlds offers a fresh perspective on Arab-Jews, caught in the crossfire of Zionism and nationalism. https://oneworld-publications.com/work/three-worlds/

Book cover for Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times by Tamara Lea Spira (University of California Press), with a large red circle against strips of varying colours (from bottom, brown, green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow), suggestive of a sun and sunset sky, with silhouettes of birds in flight along the bottom blue/green strips. Envisioning queer futures where we lovingly wager everything for the world’s children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in increasingly precarious times. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/queering-families/paper

Book cover for A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly), with a black silhouette of a witch standing in the midst of a roaring fire. A blend of prose and comics, this is an adventure story and a whimsical and humorous allegory for burnout in a society in desperate need of self-care. https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/a-witchs-guide-to-burning/

Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin, The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon, We're Alone by Edwidge Danticat & Remembering Che by Aleida March, trans. Pilar Aguilar

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Book cover for The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon (Tin House Books), with a grid of black rectangles with central purple dots, separated by white lines. What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-loneliness-files-2/

Book cover for Code Noir: Fictions by Canisia Lubrin (Soft Skull Press), with a black square with yellow crazing against a purple moon, tan ground and chalkboard-grey sky. Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada’s most exciting and admired writers, winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize and the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. https://softskull.com/books/code-noir/

Book cover for Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara by Aleida March, trans. Pilar Aguilar (Seven Stories Press), with a photo of Che and March. Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4425-remembering-che

Book cover for We're Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat (Graywolf), with a black woman in a peach-coloured dress standing in water to her thighs, facing a shower curtain on metal rods floating in a featureless white space. Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/were-alone-0

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Daily #SmallPress #books: Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk (Meekling Press) https://meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/ -and- Sundown in San Ojeula by M.M Olivas (Lanternfish Press) https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela Alt-text for details.

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Just posted to #Metafilter, Ottawa small presses The BumblePuppy Press, shreeking violet press, and Wyrdsmyth Press: https://www.metafilter.com/208626/-Canadian-small-press-hat-trick-5-

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Daily #SmallPress #books: The Ungrateful Refugee by former refugee Dina Nayeri (Catapult) https://books.catapult.co/books/ungrateful-refugee-the/ -and- The Wildcat Behind Glass by Alki Zei, trans. Karen Emmerich (Restless Books) https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/the-wildcat-behind-glass Alt-text for details.

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