Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction (Paperback)

By Benjamin Percy

$16.00

Benjamin Percy’s essays on writing are filled with aha moments as thrilling as Toto pulling back the curtain on the Wizard. Citing passages from many sources, he elucidates the subtle principles behind arresting storytelling: the importance of place in fiction, how to use images in writing, why characters should have jobs, and so much more. He examines (and exalts) the writings of Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Donna Tartt, and Michael Chabon so that we can see behind the curtain to that which makes them the masters they are. Whether this book makes you a better writer or not, it will make you a better reader.

Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants (Paperback)

By Elena Georgiou

$14.00

Saturated with movement, passion, and wit, Georgiou's second book of poems is like an encyclopedia, or a human-shaped atlas. She deftly crafts gorgeous and embodied poems that communicate by way of an interesting array of structures such as footnotes, questionnaires, and columns. Reads with the depth of a love letter and the perspective of a periscope; this is a fantastic and deeply moving homage to the rainbow of immigrants' possibilities.