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Dec 4, 2023 · Our editors share a few of the most memorable books of the year Michelle Bailat-Jones, translations editor. Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, Gerda Blees’ We Are Light (World Editions, 2023) is an innovative and riveting multi-vocal novel following three members of the Sound and Love Commune—who believe they can exist on light and love alone—after one of their members starves ...
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Nov 2, 2023 · Equites Romani. A random, fun, mini writing exercise born out of studying the Iliad, Ancient Greece & Rome, and listening to Dame Judi Dench recite one of Shakespeare’s…. Nov 2, 2023 •. Thomas Bubb. 1. 4. Jenks. Something silly just for fun and to stretch the old writing muscles Jenks yelped and fell to his knees as the room around him ...
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- Our Editors Share A Few of The Most Memorable Books They Read in 2021.
- Lacey Dunham, Fiction Editor
- Diane Josefowicz, Book Reviews Editor
- Steve Himmer, Editor
Michelle Bailat-Jones, translations editor
In 2021, my reading life was ruled by three different kinds of hunger: first, a continuation of my post-pandemic appetite for comfort reading and old favorites; second, an intermittent but intense craving for books that tackled issues of climate and conflict with ingenuity, sharpness of vision, and a measure of grace; third, a yearning for books that explicitly and carefully worked to unearth beauty where it seemed least likely to exist. The books I loved this year were often unsettling in so...
Mary Oliver, of course, requires no introduction. This year, straddling the so-called “normal” and the so-called “new normal,” I found myself drawn again and again to the outdoors, a place where I have often found solace. In Upstream(Penguin, 2016), a wide-ranging collection of new and old essays, Oliver, known for her poems that encompass the natu...
Veering between outrage and paralysis in the face of our ongoing national problem of accepting various political, social, and epidemiological realities, I spent the year searching for stories that put maximum pressure on narrative form in order to get a grip on particularly jolting changes of state, of identity and belonging, of who’s in and who’s ...
In 2021 I had a hard time with high-stakes plots. Anything I picked up to read that set in motion grand circumstances and definitive causality and characters taking bold, decisive action on a big dramatic canvas was likely put down after very few pages (or turned off after very few minutes). I suspect it was a result of my constrained pandemic life...
Translation. To submit fiction in translation (which we also welcome), please contact Michelle Bailat-Jones directly at translations@necessaryfiction.com. How to submit. Processs. Submittable. Cover letter. Don't stress about it! Just tell us who you are, no need to summarize the story or list your publications.
