And without further ahdoo....we give you...FRONTERA 2026 π₯
And without further ahdoo....we give you...FRONTERA 2026 π₯
βMacielβs novel also reads like a scrapbook or family album of a Brazilian city, in this case Rio de Janeiro.β
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel π₯
Out now via @newvesselpress.bsky.social
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Rack 'em and crack 'em! π±
New from our winter issue, read EIGHT BALL by Elaina Smith belowβ¦
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Roll the windows down & cruise to the DR with your host Richard Villegas w/ merengue BUMPING π
Read the latest installment of HAY QUE VENIR AL SUR in our winter issue below π₯
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βThe roads that the Keene brothers travel are vividly described, and populated with oddball characters that fill most American road novels, a genre full of vagabonds.β
David Dufour reviews Devin Kelly's PILGRIMS, out now via @greatplacebooks.bsky.social
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βTurns out you are never more alive than when you are not dead.β π³οΈ
Wild new nonfic from our winter issue. Read DESIGN THEORY by Lee Durkee π₯
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βMoreno has given us a vital text for navigating our strange, sticky present.βπ§ͺ
STICKY TIME by Alex Moreno is out now via Sunflower Station & we had @formermissnj.bsky.social
review it in all its glory π₯
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βNothing short of revolutionary.β π₯
S/o to @twolinespress.com for adding this double dose of Elena Garro to our must-read list π
New review by Cory Oldweiler on THE WEEK OF COLORS (tr. Megana McDowell) and THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by Jazmina Barrera
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THE GUEST LIST is back w/ another banger πΆ
EVERYWHERE ISN'T TEXAS, the new album by August Ponthier is out tomorrow & we had our own Hannah Smith get the scoop on their reading recs before release π₯
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I have three poems in the new issue of the Southwest Review (@southwestreview.bsky.social). Here is one of them.
First basketball column of the year AND feat. in our winter issue for the first time in print π
Read LET US NOW PRAISE GIANT MEN | I LOVE BASKETBALL by Liam Baranauskas
Shoutout Metta World Peace conspiracy theories, & non-carbon based life! π₯
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New issue of @southwestreview.bsky.social is a stunner. It features a Needle Drops column where @meganabbott.bsky.social writes about Enyaβs βMarble Hallsβ in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on PLACES IN THE HEART, & much more. 6 bucks a copy. southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
From our winter issue (out in the world irl) π
Read SAND, SAND, SAND by Tamara Silva Bernaschina translated by Juana Adcock below
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What a joy to talk with this brilliant star π
New KNOWN ASSOCIATES is now live ποΈ
In this episode Elizabeth Nelson talks w/ the OG @annkpowers.bsky.social about writing, music, & being an all around badass π₯
Listen below courtesy of @newponytx.bsky.social
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βA speculative history that builds scenes out of a thin or nonexistent historical recordβ
New @criveragarza.bsky.social -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON -- out today & we had Caroline Tracey review the goods βοΈ
Read below & grab yours via @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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πΆ Track premiere: THE REMEDY by the Snarlinβ Yarns
Our buds in the band are back w/ a banger. Listen to the title track below & order the LP out now π₯
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π¨ Attn booksellers + bookstores!
SwR is now available WW via the good homies at @asterismbooks.bsky.social
THE WORLD IS OURS π
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π₯ TONIGHT π₯
We'll be at @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social for the Dallas launch of THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social π
Free entry. Free SwR booty. NO COPS.
βSeventy-six pretty perfect minutes. A fairytale from the gutter.β π³οΈ
Read @wmboyle4.bsky.social on his top movie recs for this month in the latest I WAKE UP STREAMING πΏ
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Step 1: pull up at the 7-Eleven
Step 2: spark up a Black & Mild
Step 3: open up our winter issue and read DEPARTING FROM THE GRAPHIC WONDER OF THE UNDERNEATH by Jon Berger π₯
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βοΈ Read the first drop from our winter issue!
Hit the road w/ Fede Perelmuter in AMERICAN FIRE SALE | NOTES ON A WESTWARD JOURNEY π
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Hope to see you in Dallas in April! This is gonna be special!
π₯ Frontera. Is. Back.
ποΈ Mark your calendars.
This one's gonna be nuts.
βA song about the cheap-pop enthusiasms of Reaganβs Morning in America, juxtaposed against the violent and illegal meddling the administration was happily doing in Central and South America. The opening salvo is a synth-pop clinic in malevolent wonder.β
βBoys of summer in the dead of winter.β βοΈ
So you thought Don Henley was kind of a dick? Well, turns out he is but...
New writing by The Paranoid Style + track premiere from the upcoming album KNOWN ASSOCIATES π₯
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Dial up the weird & dive into this review of Sophie Strohmeier's novella ALL GIRLS BE MINE ALONE πͺοΈ
Read Amanda Maret Scharf on the goods & grab your copy now via Joyland Publishing π₯
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