This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil , Tor , my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. It felt so far away then. And now here we are: Pre-publication is an intense time of anticipation, hope, worry, and gratitude.
It often feels like a dream. But there are also times when it is nice to take a break from thinking about logistics, book tour dates, and press kits as fun as that can be, it can also be a very anxiety-inducing endeavor. It does me good to remind myself of the beauty and joy of words and literature, and that I am a reader, as well as a writer.
Luckily, I have a wonderful cohort to get us through in Here are some of the books I think will bring us some respite, beauty, laughter, and joy in the New Year. I cannot wait for this book for so many reasons. But I will keep it to a couple for now. Second, I have been following with much interest a micro-wave of great innovative recent — ish Westerns. Sign me up! Her poems combine a command of craft and language with compassion and understanding.
They are loving, moving poems, even when dealing with painful experiences. When I saw the title of the collection, I found it so fitting to the work. There is this beautiful softness. Language comes together to explore questions of identity, place, and belonging for a speaker who is in between languages and places subjects close to my heart and experience.
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I am really looking forward to it. And I love the cover too. In this collection, Sarah Kain Gutowski creates a brilliant central metaphor, splitting the speaker into two: an ordinary self and an extraordinary self.
