SwR Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“For all its sick laughs and sicker terrors, it never dissolves into nihilism. There’s a big heart leaking from the leaves of this book.” 📌ICYMI, @ConorHultman reviews PURGATORY, the new novel by Ian Townsend (@nightpainincorp), out now: @tragickalbooks https://t.co/ka9B7uXnnE

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“Be glad you’re not circumcised. That foreskin is a gift.” 📌ICYMI, @LucasESchaefer talked w/ @gregrmarshall about his new memoir, LEG: THE STORY OF A LIMB AND THE BOY WHO GREW FROM IT, out now via @AbramsPress https://t.co/YrEP2fo0Es

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“A pocket Bible for the accursed disguised as a novella.” 🔥 @ConorHultman reviews FUNERAL, the new novella co-written by @dai__joubu & @vikhinao, out now via @KERNPUNKTPress. Welcome to hell bbs! 😈https://t.co/wya7CuRk0R

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“Old Testament-style, outside man’s law. Biblical in scale and language, Of Cattle and Men is a book to squirm beneath.” 🔥 Robin McLean reviews Ana Paula Maia’s OF CATTLE AND MEN, newly translated by @ZAPTranslations, out now via @CharcoPress https://t.co/onxKzeHr5v

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“Who really knows how memory works and why the past comes back to us in the way it does?” 🧠 📌ICYMI, Zach Davidson spoke with @madelaine_lucas about her debut novel THIRST FOR SALT, out now via @Tin_House https://t.co/d23R3CgnMg

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Work sucks! 🧹 Your pal @garthmiro read THE RIGHT TO BE LAZY by son-in-law of Karl Marx, Paul Lafargue, so you don't have to & is here to show you HOW and WHY to be lazy AF 😇 Read now & grip your lesson plan via @nyrbclassics https://t.co/tJ7GiDzkyT

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“These are stories that could happen anywhere, but they seem to be happening everywhere.” 📌ICYMI, @cydaedalus reviews Fernanda Melchor's THIS IS NOT MIAMI, newly translated by Sophie Hughes, & avail now via @NewDirections https://t.co/VmgyMziiP9

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“Leach often welcomes the element of ‘the weird’ into his stories.” 📌ICYMI, Our pal JPKS (@WaterLiarsMusic) reviews DEAD MEDIUMS, the new short story collection from @deadmediumdan (out now via @Trident_Media) https://t.co/miGth8RGf2

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This is why we love @Gabino_Iglesias From his new one THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME https://t.co/EYYIdmRZwE

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Break out the popcorn & read MOVIE MARATHON by @avebarrera (trans. @robin_ep_myers) from our summer issue 🍿 Also 10/10 recommend her novel THE FORGERY, out this year from @CharcoPress https://t.co/1IPP1TSCmS