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FEATURED RECOMMENDATIONTable Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes by Michael MartoneEnjoying Michael Martone‘s Table Talk & Second Thoughts (2025), a delightful memoir in flashes released from Cornerstone Press. The opening piece, “Trains: Tuscaloosa, 2010,” recounts a moment that Martone shared with Adrienne Rich two years before her death: “She asked about the train trestle she’d seen crossing the Black Warrior River. I told her that the L&N, the GM&O, and the Southern all had depots here….” |
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We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir by Deborah A. Lott
Alba and Other Songs: Poems and Poemas by Fred Arroyo
Better to Cry Now: Shaping the Flow of a Gay Black Man by Geoffrey Newman
White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton
My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu
About Openings
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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