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In this interview, Acre’s summer graduate assistant editor, Sam Simas, speaks with Acre author Malia Márquez about her layered, multigenerational novel and the feminist perspective woven throughout her work. Check out This Fierce Blood and stay tuned for more conversations with Acre’s authors in future interviews.
As we move past Pride Month, our celebration of queer literature continues. For this installment of Pivotal Pages, we feature “Louise” from Nancy Au’s Spider Love Song and Other Stories. "Louise" follows May and her wife, Lai, two dissimilar yet fiercely devoted...
We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
Set in Oakland, California, All the Tiny Beauties begins with a kitchen fire that sends the reclusive Webster Jackson to the home of his new neighbor, Colleen, who discovers him on her doorstep wearing a lacy peignoir, his house in flames.
We’re very lucky to be blessed with another fantastic interview of an Acre author. This time it’s Ian Stansel, whose superb, haunting collection Glossary for the End of Days was released last September. Click here (or the image) to read his engrossing conversation...
Today is the day: receive a double dose of the finest, piping-hot Acre literary cuisine. Dig deep into the harrowing apocalyptic bricolage of Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, Megan Grumbling’s second poetry collection featuring “Farmers Almanac entries,...
Get even more excited to read Glossary for the End of Days than you already are by viewing this excellent trailer created by our talented videographer Ben Dudley!
We are thrilled to present our Fall 2024 lineup: The Great Game: Essays and Poetics by Amit Majmudar; The Alcestis Machine, a poetry collection by Carolyn Oliver; and Nothing Vast, the debut novel from Moshe Zvi Marvit. Preorder links are live on each book's page....
Nicola Mason: Because the book involves time travel, there are two Aarons and two Violets (what one reviewer calls a ménage à quatre). As readers, we are privy to the thoughts of both Violets—the impassioned musician in 1988 and the frazzled mother of two in 2006....