Butcher IL author of The Crown Ain’t

author of The Crown Ain’t Worth Much Bianca Phipps gives us the gift of their somber & hyperbolic imagination

Steven Willis crafts a cast of characters

Set in Southeast Louisiana—one of the last regions in the contemporary United States to resist full Americanization—Tooth Gaps in the Archives traces how place-based cultural memory persists beyond its disappearing geography and amid a cycle of forced migration

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— Danez Smith

Butcher IL author of The Crown Ain’tNatasha T. Miller, 2021 Butcher is a book about love & loss about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor Miller, explores addiction, family & tragedy. Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5 parts: envisioning the cuts as relationship with family members and social forces. Her Mother the