At its best, Kirstin Valdez Quade's new collection of stories, Night at the Fiestas, sidesteps cliché but keeps the grandeur of her setting by transposing it to her characters—people big as myth, opaque as Scripture Read More
Sphinx, on the surface, is a standard story of love and loss. But that’s about all that’s standard here. You won’t get past the first page without asking questions, and by the time you turn the last one, you’ll be no closer to an answer Read More
"I chose to write about publishing because it's the world I know best, and because I wanted to leave a record of a way of working that really is gone now." Read More
"I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture." Read More
Jonathan Galassi does a superb job of offering a meticulously observed peek behind the curtain of the book publishing world, complete with an eclectic cast of outsized characters. Read More