FEATURED RECOMMENDATION Anodyne by Khadijah Queen Very excited that Khadijah Queen will be a 2025 Visiting Writer at Longleaf Writers Conference this year. I am reading her poetry collection, Anodyne (Tin House Books, 2020). “In the event of an apocalypse, be ready to die,” the opening poem in the collection, proves  prescient for today’s reader: “But do also remember, gardens, herbaria. Repositories of beauty now ruin to find exquisite—” Read More

Ghost Dogs by Andre Dubus III

I had the honor of being in Andre Dubus III's fiction workshop at  Aspen Words. Great group of writers led ...

We Deserve the Gods We Ask For by Seth Brady Tucker

Had the pleasure of meeting Seth Brady Tucker and a few of the Longleaf group at the Longleaf Writers Conference ...

Nervosities by John Madera

I had the pleasure of hearing John Madera read from his debut flash fiction collection, Nervosities at the KGB Bar ...

We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik

Enjoying "Eros and Sorrow" in Patrycja Humienik's poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes (Tin House): "I'm crying after sex. Kettle's going off / ...

Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir by Deborah A. Lott

Enjoying the first chapter, "Gotchernose," in Don't Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press) by Deborah A. Lott: "'Gotchernose,' he'd say. Then ...

Alba and Other Songs: Poems and Poemas by Fred Arroyo

Enjoying "Alba Blanca" the first poem in Fred Arroyo's collection Alba and Other Songs released from Gunpowder Press: "My father hardly ever said ...

Better to Cry Now: Shaping the Flow of a Gay Black Man by Geoffrey Newman

Enjoying Better to Cry Now: Shaping the Flow of a Gay Black Man, a memoir by Geoffrey Newman and out from River ...

White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton

Enjoying White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton out from Lake Union Publishing: "...Once, she had seen some young men at the market ...

The Tutor by Marilee Albert

Enjoying The Tutor, a novel by Marilee Albert, out from Rare Bird Books: "...I caress the smooth stone of the ...

My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu

Enjoying the first poem in My Heresies (Sarabande Books), a poetry collection by Alina Stefanescu: "I am eating raw violets / ...

Arroyo by Chip Jacobs

I'm enjoying the first chapter of Arroyo (Rare Bird Books), "The Birds of Pasadena," by Chip Jacobs: "Say what you will about ...

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Openings is a recommendation column for Eckleburg readers, featuring fantastic books with fantastic openings, where readers first meet intriguing characters, settings and moments in which the mind can explore what is and what might be.

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