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“Sheila O'Connor has written a novel that is as bold, non-compliant, and exceptional as its protagonist. Evidence of V is both a novel and an ontological question, as in, is it possible to know (truly know) who and where we come from, and if not, what stories will we invent to fill that void?”—Nami Mun on Sheila O'Conner's Evidence of V (Rose Metal Press) #SPDhandpicked 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED

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Congrats to recently released, Jean Day’s DAYDREAM! on oct’s #spdhandpicked ! Head over to our pals @spdbooks for 20% off all month & be sure to check out all the amazing titles available ✨

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#SPDHANDPICKED on THE UNEXPECTED - VERONICA: A SUITE IN X PARTS by Erica Hunt (selva oscura press) is a tale of every Veronica, every femme trying to live despite the chronicle of a death foretold and the gratuitous violence of everyday life. It is a beautiful movement, a lamentation, a chorale, an algorithm, and V and X of it attending to an rewriting the mathematics of black social life.

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“The mother mourning, the girl slain, the unloved woman, the captive maternal, the stone who wants to dance, the girl done wrong too many times are some of V’s many faces. This suite of poems takes the breath away, demands that you bow your head and get ready for the storm.”—Saidiya Hartman on Erica Hunt's VERONICA: A SUITE IN X PARTS (selva oscura press) #SPDhandpicked

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#SPDHANDPICKED is on THE UNEXPECTED - People I've Met From The Internet by Stephen van Dyck (Ricochet Editions) explores the pleasures and pains of growing up, and ultimately searches for a way of being in the world. Spanning twelve years, the book takes the form of a very long annotated list, tracking Stephen's journey and the men he meets, creating a multi-dimensional panorama of gay men's lives as he searches for glimpses of utopia and the unexpected in the available world.

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#SPDHANDPICKED is on THE UNEXPECTED - Graffiti edited by Pallavi Dhawan, Devi S. Laskar & Tamika Thompson (Aunt Lute Books) gives its contributors a special challenge: to write in a way that centers neither "whiteness" nor "anti-whiteness" and that is not limited by their struggle, their oppression, or how their characters will be received by the white imagination. The results are joyous and mind expanding.

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DECEMBER'S #SPDHANDPICKED is on THE UNEXPECTED - what is literature for if not to patch together our experiences into a different form? These forms torque our phenomenology, finding in the daily a way to rewrite our very lives into the crucial, the political and beautiful.

feat. Veronica: A Suite in X Parts by Erica Hunt (selva oscura press)

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Fuel and Fire:Selected Poems 1956–1976 by Francisco Urondo, trans. J. Leverone (Lavender Ink / Diálogos) places blame on an ignorant public, but hope in the hands of individuals who can give themselves over to love." #SPDhandpicked

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#SPDHANDPICKED on CRAFT - Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras trans. Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan (Dorothy, a publishing project) is a demonstration of her endless curiosity, voracious intellect and well-honed craft. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the "scattering of desire" to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground

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#SPDHANDPICKED is on HISTORY - That Treeplanting Story by Dan De Vries (IFSF Publishing) is a cycle of eight tales, including two novella-length, set in or around historic treeplanting camps in British Columbia.

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#SPDHANDPICKED on HISTORY - Toy Fabels by Cass McCombs (Spurl Editions) feels like traveling through McCombs' personal history and singular itinerant experiences - high and low voices merge, as childhood and adulthood, the east and west coasts, paganism and religion, twist into each other. A central theme is memory, especially a sort of half-remembered, half-obscured-but never idealized-landscape of Northern California. Toy Fabels' brilliance lies in its embrace of the inexplicable and the ephemeral.

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#SPDHANDPICKED on HISTORY -  Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts and Fiction by Sheila O'Connor (Rose Metal Press is an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, historic documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court. It is the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for "immorality" in the first half of the twentieth century, O'Connor follows young V from her early work as a nightclub entertainer to her subsequent six-year state school sentence for an unplanned pregnancy.

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NOVEMBER'S #SPDHANDPICKED is on HISTORY - whether personal or political, it's hard in our moment to see History as any kind of objective fact - rather it emerges as a collage of evidence, experience and fiction. Can we find truth in history? Perhaps, if we see it as plural, as a multiplicity, as these books do.

feat. Toy Fabels by Cass McCombs (Spurl Editions)

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#SPDHANDPICKED on SHARPNESS: I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love it by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Big Lucks) is a painful and personal book, brimming with darkness and hope, artfully balancing how difficult being alive can be - the feeling of everything, all at once, crumbling - but also why we all keep doing it.I'M ALIVE. IT HURTS. I LOVE IT. is softness that saves us.

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“Bob Perelman in JACK AND JILL IN TROY writes in an apparently easy, conversational diction...it is the pervasive  intelligence and rhythmic clarity of the speaking voice, at once deeply informed and by choice informal, that makes JACK AND JILL IN TROY such a good and enlightening companion.”—Lydia Davis on Bob Perelman's Jack and Jill in Troy Roof Books​  #SPDhandpicked

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Graffiti, ed. P. Dhawan, D. Laskar & T. Thomson (Aunt Lute Books) “exposes lives that move in unexpected ways, rendering characters who don't fit the cultural tropes we cling to. GRAFFITI shows what writers of color do when they are invited to a scribble, scrawl, romanticize, and speculate without being politicized or exoticized.” #SPDhandpicked

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