Jennifer duBois’s new novel, The Last Language, has received positive early reviews from Kirkus (starred review), Publisher’s Weekly and Shelf Awareness. It will be out October 17 from Milkweed Editions, and you can pre-order here.

Rob Tally is now a contributing editor for the American Book Review, and his brief article “Mapping Culture” appears in the current issue (Vol. 44, no. 2 [Summer 2023]). It is the first entry in his series of ABR columns, “Cartographies,” featuring topics in contemporary literary criticism and theory.

Cecily Parks’s third book of poems, The Seeds, will be published by Alice James Books in 2025. She will be a Rea Writer at the University of Virginia from October 11-13, 2023.

Katie Kapurch published an essay, “Why ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ made 2023 the dead girl summer,” in The Conversation. Katie Kapurch was invited to review The McCartney Legacy for the Journal of Beatles Studies, published by Liverpool University Press. The review appears in the most recent open-access issue here.

MFA student Sara Bawany’s second book of poetry, Quarter Life Crisis, will be published October 22, 2023 from FlowerSong Press. 

Cassie Polasek recently presented, “‘The last pagan on earth:’ An Allegorical Reading of Bobby Western’s Consciousness,” at the Cormac McCarthy Society’s Special Symposium on The Passenger and Stella Maris held at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

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