Nonfiction / Memoir
City of Dreams, by Tyler Anbinder
The Electric Woman, by Tessa Fontaine
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening HardOn Being Human, by Jennifer Pastiloff
From Dictatorship to Democracy, Gene Sharp
Fiction
The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
Quiet Creature on the Corner, by João Gilberto Noll
Short Fiction
The Rule, by Frances Donnelly
Brawler, by Lauren Groff (The New Yorker)
When the Tide of Misfortune Hits, Even Jelly Will Break Your Teeth, by Porochista Khakpour (Gulf Coast)
Poetry
Still Life with Oysters and Lemons: On Objects and Intimacy, by Mark Doty
Call Me by My True Names, by Thich Nhat Hanh
In Full Velvet, by Jenny Johnson
Essay (Selected)
I am Coming for You, by Tammy Delatorre / Winning Writers
What does it mean to be a “real” mother? by Tanya Friedman / Motherwell
SHRINES. BONES. RELICS. by Anne Gudger / Equinox Poetry and Prose
The Sorrowful Mysteries, or Reasons I’m No Longer Catholic, by Kathleen McKitty Harris / Longreads
The Thread: On Justice by Marissa Korbel (The Rumpus)
I’ve Got Dreams He’ll Never Take Away; or, I Know My Childhood Molester Is Reading This. He Has Read Everything I’ve Ever Written. He’s Always Looking For His Name: It Starts with a B, by C. Russell Price
Graphic Novel
Pitch Black, by Youme Landowne and Anthony Horton
“[Landowne and Horton] collaborate here to bring Horton’s story of perseverance and hope to print, and the fluid black-and-white sequential panels tell it well. The horrors attendant on homelessness are not sugarcoated, and the language is as raw and gritty as one might expect. Powerful.”—Kirkus Reviews
On the subway, do ever notice that people are always looking, but they only see what they want to? Things can be sitting right in front of them and still they can’t see it.
Interview / OpEd (Selected)
WHY WE NEED STORIES: A PEN TEN INTERVIEW WITH SOPHIA SHALMIYEV, by Camilla Bober
Meet the power couple taking over Seattle sports (and the World Cup): Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, by Stefanie Loh / Seattle Times
Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber Van de Bunt, by Kristen Casey / Curated by Kelly Thompson / The Rumpus
18 Questions. 21 Democrats. Here’s What They Said. The New York Times
How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration, by Jason Sokol / Politico
Magazine / Newspaper
Lesbian Connection: free to lesbians worldwide, but the suggested donation is $7/issue (more if you can, less if you can’t), May/June 2019 issue
The New Yorker
The Week
TIME
The Normal School: A Literary Magazine
Random
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