The following is a new excerpt from Brad Phillips' forthcoming novel, set to be published by Tyrant Books in 2021. Check out his book Essays and Fictions at the links below. Print store.nytyrant.com/products/essays…y-brad-phillips Audio thetalkingbook.org/essays-and-fictions

Lee Matalone weaves a moving, beautiful narrative of home, identity, and belonging. Home Making is a somber, yet hopeful, ode to the stories we tell ourselves in order to make a family. Go get this book at: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/home-making-lee-matalone

Grant Maierhofer reads an excerpt from FLAMINGOS from the collection WORKS, out now from 11:11 Press. You can get a copy here: https://1111press.bigcartel.com/product/works-by-grant-maierhofer

Papal Glow is the time between centuries, that little dust mote trailing in the sun’s glare between folds of the partition that separates the public from true knowledge. It is the preventative strain keeping the powers-that-be at bay while the world swirls by unnoticed. Get the book here: https://papalglow.maudlinhouse.net/

A new reading from Claire Hopple's novella Tell Me How You Really Feel. Go and get the book and enjoy your life: https://tellmehowyoureallyfeel.maudlinhouse.net/ Uncle Errol throws a funeral for himself. Bootsie spies on her own husband. Joe's band dresses in costumes and plays instruments from elementary school music class. Marco is tired of people shouting “Polo!” over his shoulder. Mallory unlocks the doors between hotel suites in case the person beside her is also searching and alone. Denise eats crayons and goes missing. Gary tries to legally change his name to get back at his sworn enemy. Tell Me How You Really Feel is the only novella set in the municipality of Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

The following is an excerpt from Brad Phillips' forthcoming novel, set to be published by Tyrant Books in 2021. Check out his book Essays and Fictions at the links below. Print https://store.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips Audio https://thetalkingbook.org/essays-and-fictions

A reading from the novel True Love by Sarah Gerard. Out now from Harper. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/true-love-sarah-gerard Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable “relationship” in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus.

Brad Phillips is a well-known artist and is author of Essays and Fictions from Tyrant Books. Listen to him read an excerpt from his new novel, then go to thetalkingbook.org, and get his audiobook. https://thetalkingbook.org/essays-and-fictions

Alex Higley reads his story Parkway, which was originally published here: https://bluestemarchive.wordpress.com/parkway Alex Higley is the author of Cardinal and Old Open, which is also an audiobook from The Talking Book. Check out his work at https://alexhigleywriter.com

NICOLETTE POLEK is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is a recipient of the 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Imaginary Museums is her debut collection and you should get it here: https://softskull.com/dd-product/imaginary-museums/ As always thanks to Keegan Grandbois, Holler Boys, and Alec Sturgis for the fantastic music. <3