Acre Books

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Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com

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"Like a sacked || tomb the oven / yawns— || even girded / with steel || it fails to keep / the dead in or || living out." Today on the site, Quinn Franzen's "The Kiln" renders a familiar act of making into lines of suggestion and vividness.

Excerpt from "The Kiln" by Quinn Franzen that reads, "Like a sacked || tomb the oven / yawns— || even girded / with steel || it fails to keep / the dead in or || living out"A light-skin man with short hair, black glasses, and a gray shirt poses with a slight grin in front of a solid-brown background.
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"Children are rarely spared from the messes we create, and so it was not hard to imagine child characters imperiled by their circumstances . . ." On the site, Associate Editor Blessing Christopher interviews Uche Okonkwo (@ucheokonkwo.bsky.social), author of A Kind of Madness. Link in thread.

Dark text on a light background reading: "Featured Interview: 'Children are rarely spared from the messes we create, and so it was not hard to imagine child characters imperiled by their circumstances...' --Uche Okonkwo"
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"Sustenance is safer entombed in glass jars or in tins shaped like the artillery shell that tore through her twenty-four-year-old son’s pelvis in Indiana while he was serving in the National Guard." In today's miCRo, Dustin M. Hoffman explores a child's unusual inheritance. Link in thread.

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My upcoming essay collection from @acrebooks.bsky.social has a page (cover coming soon). Available even to pre-order now, if you like to get in on a good thing early 🙏🏻

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