Ditmas Lit

Ditmas Lit

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Monthly reading series at the Urbane Arts Club in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn hosted by Sarah Bridgins and Lena Valencia. https://www.ditmaslit.com/events

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Ditmas Lit is this Wed. 10/22! In their starred review, @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @megancummins.bsky.social novel Atomic Hearts “Impressive - works equally well as a gritty coming-of-age drama & an insightful story about the nature of writing.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780593875353

publishersweekly.comAtomic Hearts by Megan CumminsCummins’s impressive debut novel (after the collection If the Body Allows It) follows two lifelong friends who bonded while stru...
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Ditmas Lit is tonight! @autostraddle.bsky.social calls reader Mac Crane’s novel A Sharp Endless Need “ . . . vibrant and grimy and hot and poetic and aching.” www.autostraddle.com/a-sharp-endl...

autostraddle.com'A Sharp Endless Need' Lives in the Intersection of Sex and BasketballAt their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.
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Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...

penguinrandomhouse.comSick Houses by Leila Taylor: 9781915672636 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksExplores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home. Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Go...
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@shelf-awareness.com praises reader @shayneterry.bsky.social’s memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account, declaring it’s “. . . for any reader who has given birth, endured pain, or known someone who has (in other words: nearly everyone).” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

shelf-awareness.comShelf Awareness for Thursday, January 16, 2025Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...
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@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls reader @joannanovak1986.bsky.social’s poetry collection Domestirexia “Propulsive . . . Thanks to Novak’s language, these pages overflow with life’s complexities, terrors, and fragmentations.” softskull.com/books/domest...

softskull.comDomestirexiaA poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new waysDomestirexia goes beyond the ent…