Reading Mikołaj Grynberg in a time of war. “We have jokes because we haven’t got any hope. But we sure know how to laugh, don’t you think?” UNKNOWN Polish photographer and oral historian Mikołaj Grynberg emerges into the English publishing space with his collection of short stories inspired by the stories of Polish Jews across […]
Nicole-Anne's bookshelf: read
"I'd lived with misunderstanding for so long, I'd stopped even viewing it as bad. It was just there, embedded in everything I loved."
AFTERPARTIES is a short story collection of Cambodian Americans in California. Many of the main charac...
4.5 stars. I first heard an excerpt of this book at a virtual reading, ready by K-Ming Chang herself, when the book first came out in 2020. What a stunner; every sentence is full of poetry and new associations that make my mind spin and ...
4.5 / Feels and sounds like spoken word poetry in my head; it would be an honor to hear this work at a slam.
Favorite poem: “was it good for you/like blood on dry ground”
