The Tutor by Marilee Albert

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 famous martyr burned at the stake for heresy five hundred years ago and muse on his sacrifice. Would anyone today give their life for a cause...?" ... Read More
Mylia

Mylia

DJ Mylia at Attack of the Book People III AWP 2025, LA Eckleburg 7.13 Books Rare Bird Books Hotel Per La Mezzanine West 649 S. Olive Street Los Angeles, CA 90014 Featuring Marilee Albert Rae Cline Rosa Kwon Easton Danielle Harms Chip Jacobs Sara Lippmann Sameer Pandya Jim Ruland Hugh ... Read More
Eckleburg at AWP 2025, Los Angeles

Eckleburg at AWP 2025, Los Angeles

Join 7.13 Books, Rare Bird Books and Eckleburg for Attack of the Book People III at AWP 2025 in LA on Friday, March 28th, 6 to 10 pm. Food, drinks, DJ and a fantastic lineup of readers including Marilee Albert, Rae Cline, Rosa Kwon Easton, Danielle Harms, Sara Lippman, Chip Jacobs, Sameer Pandya, Jim Ruland and Hugh Sheehy. Find copies of Eckleburg No. 22 at the ... Read More
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Hotel Pool, or, Gay Subject Matter

Alone in the pool, surrounded by other people’s children, I think of a way to describe the garbled and bulbous sounds of their high pitched voices bouncing | heightened | distracting and I think: this must be what it sounds like inside a snow globe—the garbled nature of voice trapped ... Read More
Bird, Window

Bird, Window

One Dusk, my desk, a poem lodged inside me, stillborn—a flash of darkness at my window, and then a crash in the room next door. Bomb, gunshot, sonic boom? I arrive in time to hear glass shatter and watch the window collapse. Shards of glass scattered among the volumes in ... Read More
Homunculus

Homunculus

"Why do all the kids in these paintings look like old men?" Sabine asked, inspecting the legacy of some long-dead Italian. I tilted my head back to drum up a few extra millimeters of breath, placating my air hunger for another minute or two, and replied, "I think those kids ... Read More
Missy's Got a Gun

Missy’s Got a Gun

"I don't want to live in a country that doesn't allow me to own a gun," I yell, shoving my chair into the dining table. Rob wears a blank expression like he hasn't meant to start one more war with me. We're married liberals who can't talk about anything political, ... Read More