Deesha Philyaw Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In TAR HOLLOW TRANS, the first book in the series (forthcoming June 2023), Stacy Jane Grover explores her transgender experience through common Appalachian cultural traditions. https://t.co/2fwuRlKQKi

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2/"They'd come to make a life, as they saw it, on someone else’s land. It was incumbent upon them to proceed humbly, to work tirelessly, and to enjoy themselves quietly.” —Alejandro Varela @drovarela, from his debut novel The Town of Babylon https://t.co/WwUmw2ZaM5

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Wang’s narrative is at once laser-focused and multilayered. She raises provocative questions about motherhood, daughterhood, belonging and the many definitions of “home.” What do we owe our parents? Our children? And are any of us OK?

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2/"...Red lip theology gave God back to me, me back to God, and me back to myself.” — @CandiceBenbow, from her debut essay collection Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough https://t.co/sKMqU5y38b

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4/...and holds a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. Her fiction, essays, and criticisms have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, URSA, TIME, Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, Gagosian Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, The Washington Post...

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So here we are. Our #LIT16 Final Four: @destinyoshay , author of Nobody’s Magic Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming @chantalalive , author of None but the Righteous @lionesstales, author of Moonrise Over New Jessup https://t.co/Q8ejyHDesV

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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@mayhewbergman I highly recommend novellas by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson—“My Monticello” in her story collection of the same title—and Rion Amilcar Scott, “Special Topics in Loneliness Studies” in his collection The World Doesn’t Require You.

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1/“In a woman’s world, time is the most precious commodity, and we don’t have it to waste.” – Xochitl Gonzalez, Olga Dies Dreaming https://t.co/a7CxwNlPTq

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7/Here's Robert Jones Jr.'s blurb: “What Cleyvis Natera has given us with Neruda on the Park is a book so honest, so implicating, so liberating that is at once beautiful and terrifying..."