A "WORKING LIFE" by Eileen Myles

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A "WORKING LIFE" by Eileen Myles
A "WORKING LIFE" by Eileen Myles published this week to critical acclaim. The book received a wonderful review from Publishers Weekly: "With just a few words per line, [Myles'] poems move down the page quickly, the language dashed off and immediate, as though keeping pace with the poet’s mind...While at times, these poems can present as random and rapidly scribbled, there are rewards here for the readers who stick with them, revealing the joys of a life built out of thinking, dreaming, and making." Vulture featured the book on its list of “6 New Books You Should Read This April,” praising: "A ‘WORKING LIFE’ takes you where Myles feels like, for however long they feel like it, and in whichever direction. This is harder than it looks. The ease of Myles’ lines — the way words break in two to calibrate rhythm and speed, or how the number of words per line expand and single out to play around with tension — belie great skill. But the difference between poets isn’t just style; it’s personality, or one’s outlook on life. Myles’s is one of the most distinctive, and insightful." Myles was also interviewed for WNYC's "All of It with Alison Stuart." Grove Press published the book on April 18, 2023.

A "WORKING LIFE" by Eileen Myles published this week to critical acclaim. The book received a wonderful review from Publishers Weekly: "With just a few words per line, [Myles'] poems move down the page quickly, the language dashed off and immediate, as though keeping pace with the poet’s mind...While at times, these poems can present as random and rapidly scribbled, there are rewards here for the readers who stick with them, revealing the joys of a life built out of thinking, dreaming, and making." Vulture featured the book on its list of “6 New Books You Should Read This April,” praising: "A ‘WORKING LIFE’ takes you where Myles feels like, for however long they feel like it, and in whichever direction. This is harder than it looks. The ease of Myles’ lines — the way words break in two to calibrate rhythm and speed, or how the number of words per line expand and single out to play around with tension — belie great skill. But the difference between poets isn’t just style; it’s personality, or one’s outlook on life. Myles’s is one of the most distinctive, and insightful." Myles was also interviewed for WNYC's "All of It with Alison Stuart." Grove Press published the book on April 18, 2023.

DECENT PEOPLE by De'Shawn Charles Winslow

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DECENT PEOPLE by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Oprah Weekly included De'Shawn Charles Winslow's DECENT PEOPLE on a list of “8 New Mysteries to Die For,” praising it as “elegant.” Atlanta Magazine included the book on its “Spring Reading” round-up of new releases by Atlanta based authors, calling it a “sweeping novel.” Lastly, The New York Public Library chose it as one of its Spring 2023 Staff Picks for Adults, where NYPL Associate Director of Public Programs Aidan Flax-Clark raves: “If you love murder mysteries, Winslow's second novel is a fresh take on an old form.” Bloomsbury Publishing published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.

Oprah Weekly included De'Shawn Charles Winslow's DECENT PEOPLE on a list of “8 New Mysteries to Die For,” praising it as “elegant.” Atlanta Magazine included the book on its “Spring Reading” round-up of new releases by Atlanta based authors, calling it a “sweeping novel.” Lastly, The New York Public Library chose it as one of its Spring 2023 Staff Picks for Adults, where NYPL Associate Director of Public Programs Aidan Flax-Clark raves: “If you love murder mysteries, Winslow's second novel is a fresh take on an old form.” Bloomsbury Publishing published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey

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TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey
TAKE WHAT YOU NEED received a wonderful review from The New Republic. Reviewer Kristen Martin writes: "Novey upends familiar platitudes on our country’s divisions in an odd novel about the ways that the people and places we love can become enigmas to us, and the ineffable impulse to make art…Grappling with the mysteries we present to one another, Novey pushes back against the fairy tales we’ve told ourselves about polarizing places like Appalachia, spinning a far more artful story." Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED received a wonderful review from The New Republic. Reviewer Kristen Martin writes: "Novey upends familiar platitudes on our country’s divisions in an odd novel about the ways that the people and places we love can become enigmas to us, and the ineffable impulse to make art…Grappling with the mysteries we present to one another, Novey pushes back against the fairy tales we’ve told ourselves about polarizing places like Appalachia, spinning a far more artful story." Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.