Welcome to the July 2020 edition of new fiction we can’t wait to read! Aimee Bender, The Butterfly Lampshade “By the end, the book reveals itself as a meditation on memory, identity, and the sometimes-uncanny relationship between living beings…
I am heaving in the southwestern corner of an open-air outlet mall five days before Christmas. This is the desperate and empty sort of heaving required to stop a sob and close off the valve of emotion. A hiccuping…
The June 2020 edition of new fiction we can’t wait to read! Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen (translated by Frank Wynne) “A dreamlike yet insightful novel of a family and a country decaying from the inside….The reader is pulled…
Topping our TBRs—new fiction for May, 2020! Dima Alzayat, Alligator & Other Stories “Alzayat’s slim, powerful debut collection showcases the author’s deep empathy and imagination in stories about grief, assimilation, and trauma… This intelligent collection is a force to…
Here are the books we are most looking forward to reading this month! Julia Alvarez, Afterlife “Alvarez’s prose is magnetic as she delves into the intricacies of sisterhood, immigration, and grief, once again proving her mastery as a…
In a 2015 review in The Los Angeles Times, the late Pulitzer Prize–winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold describes an amuse-bouche at Le Comptoir in Koreatown as “a course that takes a cook 10 minutes to plate and that you…
Here are the new releases we are most looking forward to this month, including several by CRAFT contributors! Leesa Cross-Smith, So We Can Glow: Stories “Leesa Cross-Smith is such a beguiling writer and her skills are on full display in So We Can…
The following is excerpted from “The Sandbox Story,” by Candace Walsh, included in the anthology Santa Fe Noir, ed. Ariel Gore. Used with permission of the author and Akashic Books. I work at home, but my office has its…
Alongside The Masters Review & Frontier Poetry & Palette Poetry, we’ve made the decision not to attend AWP in San Antonio. We will keep this page updated when we learn of events featuring contributors & friends of CRAFT! Many…
CRAFT: What was your motivation to open The Artful Editor in 2010? Did you specifically see a need to be filled, or were you pursuing your passion, or was it something in between or completely different? Naomi Kim Eagleson:…
