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THE RACKET PRESENTS: THE NEW ERA / Tuesday, May 26th @ The Sycamore
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THE RACKET READING SERIES IS BACK!
Featuring: Lauren C. Johnson, Kristina Ten, Preeti Vangani, Kimberly Gomes, Syr Hayati Beker, T.K. Rex, Leigh Lucas, & Vincent Chu
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After a long, long time, The Racket Reading Series is coming back! It’s a new era and we’ve got eight (count ‘em EIGHT) readers with brand new books to celebrate. Come out! Celebrate new work! Help us blow the dust off The Racket’s shambling machinery! We’ll see you there!
ON THE WEBSITE: Irena Smith (Troika) in conversation with Laurel McCaull
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Laurel McCaull sat down with Irena Smith to talk about her newest memoir, Troika: Three Generations, Three Days, and a Very American Roadtrip. The book follows Smith, her daughter, and her mother, on a three day trip that evolves into an exploration of family, loss, and the connections that hold us together across generations. The conversation, both poignant and very funny, talks about Smith returning to her roots, the power of White Lotus, the insufferable dialect of academia, and so much more. Great chat.
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Give it a read in the LINK IN BIO.
ON THE WEBSITE: Lauren C. Johnson (The West Façade) in conversation with Sarah Cadorette
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We have been so lucky over the last few years to have Lauren C. Johnson as the Interviews Editor for The Racket Website. Her intelligence and editorial grace is unparalleled and this becomes even more apparent with the release of her debut novel—The West Façade—a delightfully gothic story of living statues in the shadow of Notre Dame. Sarah Cadorette sat down with Lauren to talk about the idea of divinity as a raft, deep time, historical gossip, redheads, and so much more. It’s a fantastic conversation and there’s no reason you shouldn’t read it immediately. Well, unless you’re taking a few brief seconds to buy Lauren’s book. Then, then you can read it in the LINK IN BIO.
ON THE WEBSITE: A conversation with Preeti Vangani (Fifty Mothers)
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Preeti Vangani’s second collection of poetry, Fifty Mothers (River River Books) is out in the world and if you need any other reason to buy this funny, dark, sad meditation on grief and how it shapes us, then please check out this interview. Noah Sanders, the guy behind The Racket, sat down with Preeti and talked about the connections between sex and grief, finding humor in our darkest moments, what it means to write a second book, and so much more. Buy the book. Read the interview. Tromp merrily through the flowers.
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ON THE WEBSITE: Kristina Ten (Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine) in conversation with Leigh Lucas (Splashed Things)
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We are very, very excited to finally release this incredible interview out into the world. Kristina Ten (of short horror collection, Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine) sat down with Leigh Lucas to talk about Leigh’s debut collection, Splashed Things (BOA). It is a meaty convo that digs deep into writing about intense grief and how to approach the impossible task of elegy and finding closure. It is a beautiful conversation.
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Take some time today, tomorrow, this weekend to enjoy it. LINK IN BIO.
ON THE WEBSITE: Alex Clemente interviews Jennie Vanasco (A Silent Treatment)
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Alex Clemente sat down with Jeannie Vanasco to discuss her new book—A Silent Treatment (Tin House). The two dig into how Vanasco’s feeling in the wake of the book’s release, how Wedding Crashers inadvertently influenced the humor in the book, Nicolas Cage, the poetic structure of Vanasco’s writing, and so much more. It’s a lovely interview and we think you should read it in the LINK IN BIO.
ON THE WEBSITE: New Work by Nicole Misun Kormendi - LINK IN BIO
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Long time no talk. But we couldn’t be happier to step back into your life to introduce you to the work of Nicole Misun Kormendi. “Nearly June and I” is a deceptively simple poem about the journey of a relationship, but in Kormendi’s hands it breaths with details. Sounds, images, the texture of the world that surrounds two people. It opens more with each read, so I hope you read it many times. LINK IN BIO.
ON THE WEBSITE: Wendy M. Thompson’s Black California Gold reviewed by Heidi Kasa
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Heidi Kasa is back with a review of Wendy M. Thompson’s debut poetry collection, Black California Gold (Bucknell University Press). In the review Kasa approaches the collection as “poetry of witness”, exploring these powerful pieces of poetry as slivers of light “against a shadowy tide.”
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Read the review and buy the book in the LINK IN BIO.
ON THE WEBSITE: Anu Khosla interviews Kristina Ten (Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine, Stillhouse Press)
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Kristina Ten has been a very favorite writer of The Racket’s since our earliest days. We are so excited about Ten’s debut collection of short stories, Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine, and the beautifully wrought horrors they contain. Anu Khosla sat down with Kristina Ten to talk about what she was like as child, the Wild West of the early internet, Mad Libs, and so much more. You want to check it out. You want to buy this book.
ON THE WEBSITE: Tomas Moniz interviews A. M. Sosa (And I’ll Take Out Your Eyes, Algonquin Books)
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We hadn’t heard of A. M. Sosa or their debut novel, And I’ll Take Out Your Eyes, before Tomas Moniz reached out with this interview in hand. And after spending time with this interview, and with A. M. Sosa’s blistering voice we couldn’t be more excited to get our hands on it. Curses, hammering nails, Stockton, California—Moniz and Sosa cover it all and more. Check it out.
