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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: James Baldwin’s Another Country by Kim McLarin (Ig Publishing) & Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley (McSweeney's). See alt-text.

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Book cover for James Baldwin’s Another Country by Kim McLarin (Ig Publishing): Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, James Baldwin’s Another Country is a novel of sexual, racial, political, and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality. In her volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author and essayist Kim McLarin talks about how her the parameters and scope of her work have been influenced by this classic Baldwin novel. https://www.igpub.com/james-baldwins-another-country-bookmarked/

Book cover for Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley (McSweeney's): Now a major motion picture, Sorry to Bother You offers a raucous view into class, politics, and race in a dystopic (but all too real) modern-day Oakland, California. This screenplay shows us code-switching as high art, and what it takes in today’s world to climb that capitalist ladder. https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/sorry-to-bother-you?taxon_id=94

I have read fourteen books so far this year, and next up is something a bit different, except that I have read quite a few books about the sex industry in general, but erotic/exotic dancing and striptease specifically

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The cover of my copy of Some of My Best Friends are Naked by Tim Keefe

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò & We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (both Haymarket). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Haymarket): A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2538-reconsidering-reparations

Book cover for We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (Haymarket): A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2519-we-are-each-other-s-liberation

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Blue Opening: Poems by Chet’la Sebree (Tin House) & The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth (NeWest Press). See alt-text.

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Book cover for The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth (NeWest Press): Bickersteth’s debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/the-response-of-weeds

Book cover for Blue Opening: Poems by Chet’la Sebree (Tin House): With startling clarity and vivid tenderness, Blue Opening calls into question not only where to begin, but how to create, across thirty-two poems that press the fluid boundaries of form through sonnets, prose poems, odes, and two unforgettable poetic sequences. https://tinhouse.com/book/blue-opening/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cotton Blues by Edem Awumey (Mawenzi House) & Precise Tenderness: 100 Haiku by Kalamu ya Salaam (Third World Press). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Cotton Blues by Edem Awumey (Mawenzi House): Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. In an African town somewhere between the Sahel and the Atlantic coast, cotton planter Toby Kunta takes a Berlin journalist hostage in a museum showroom. Kunta asks for monetary compensation for himself and a group of peasants ruined by the production of genetically modified cotton. As the tension rises inside the museum and a standoff begins with the chief of police, Kunta begins to burn the exhibited works one by one and threatens to do the same with his prisoner. https://www.mawenzihouse.com/product/cotton-blues/

Book cover for Precise Tenderness: 100 Haiku by Kalamu ya Salaam (Third World Press): This volume is a unique exploration of haiku fueled by his seemingly boundless imagination, deft wordplay, and Black Aesthetic wanderings. This creative master artfully paints the page while orchestrating blues/jazz/gospel soundings. https://thirdworldpressfoundation.org/collections/new-authors/products/precise-tenderness

I am now thirteen books into 2026, and the next ebook will be Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie

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Happy Monday! Here are 12 butch/femme sapphic fiction suggestions for the Facebook BFSFR group reading challenge category for the week of 02/16/26: Mental Illness.
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12 book covers on the background of a bed with white bed linens, an open book, and a cup of coffee for the Butch/Femme Sapphic Fiction Readers group reading challenge category for the week of 02/16/26: Mental Illness.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth (Between the Lines) & Redundancies and Potentials by Dominique Dickey (Neon Hemlock Press). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua, with Edward Dunsworth (Between the Lines): In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. https://btlbooks.com/book/harvesting-freedom

Book cover for Redundancies and Potentials by Dominique Dickey (Neon Hemlock Press): Science fiction/fantasy featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "Two sisters are given an important mission: stop an insurrection from happening decades in the future to save the world… a defiant story about sisterhood and justice…" https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/redundancies-and-potentials

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Footnote to Freedom: Reclaiming the Life and Legacy of a Black Battalion Soldier by Lance B. Dixon (Dundurn) & Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus by Sherice Janaye Nelson (Universal Write Publications). See alt-text.

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Book cover for A Footnote to Freedom: Reclaiming the Life and Legacy of a Black Battalion Soldier by Lance B. Dixon (Dundurn): Available Feb 17, 2026. One family’s story of racism, redemption, and the legacy of the No. 2 Black Construction Battalion. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459756977-a-footnote-to-freedom

Book cover for Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus by Sherice Janaye Nelson (Universal Write Publications): This incisive study places the experiences of the women of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) at the forefront, analyzing how race and gender intersect to create unique challenges within a legislative body historically dominated by White males. https://uwpbooks.com/product/visibly-invisible-the-black-women-of-the-congressional-black-caucus/

Twelve books down so far this year, and I have decided to reread this for no particular reason!

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The cover of my copy of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Bonus daily-ish #SmallPress #books for #ValentinesDay: Sluts: Anthology, edited by Michelle Tea (Dopamine Books) & a couple books by contributors McKenzie Wark & Robert Gluck ! See alt-text.

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Book cover for Sluts: Anthology, edited by Michelle Tea (Dopamine Books), with a neon pink heart against a neon blue background. Featuring personal essays, spilled secrets, fiction, memoir, and experimental works, Sluts asks writers and readers to investigate the many ways the notion of the slut impacts our inner and outer lives, as a threat or an identity, a punishment or an aspiration, a lifestyle, an aesthetic, a philosophy and rallying cry. Contributors are DL Alvarez, Vera Blossom‬, Chloe Caldwell, Cristy Road Carrera‬, Sam Cohen, Tom Cole, Lydia Conklin, jimmy cooper, Lyn Corelle, Jenny Fran Davis, Cyrus Dunham, Hedi El Kholti, Robert Gluck, Miguel Gutierrez, Gary Indiana, Taleen Kali, Cheryl Klein, Gabrielle Korn, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Nate Lippens, Meredith Maran, Carta Monir, Amanda Montell, Carely Moore, Bradford Nordeen, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Kamala Puligandla, Brontez Purnell, Liara Roux, Andrea Sands, Daviel Shy, Jen Silverman, Anna Joy Springer, Laurie Stone, McKenzie Wark, Zoe Whittall. All the book info on the Dopamine website refers to Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/100032/9781635902129.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Book cover for The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark (Verso Books): The acclaimed, readable history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto. Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles. Wark delves into the Situationists’ unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68, Wark’s take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2197-the-beach-beneath-the-street

Detail of book cover for Jack the Modernist by Robert Gluck (NYRB). Yes, I’ve censored the dick off this, because otherwise Booksky will hide all the covers. A classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück’s Jack the Modernist portrays the slow disintegration of a love affair set in the early 1980s. Bob is excited and lonely. He meets and pursues the elusive Jack, a director who is able to transform others without altering himself. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a bar, thinks about werewolves, has an orgasm, and discovers a number of truths about Jack. Out of print for decades, Glück’s paean to desire and obsession explores the everyday in an idiom both intimate and lush. Sensual as well as sensational, self-conscious, but never self-serious, Jack the Modernist is a candid and heartfelt lover’s discourse unlike any other. https://www.nyrb.com/products/jack-the-modernist

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland & A River Called Time by Courttia Newland (both Akashic Books). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland (Akashic Books): A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/cosmogramma/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work by Bianca J. Baldridge & Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics by T.D. Harper-Shipman (both Stanford UP). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work by Bianca J. Baldridge (Stanford UP): Youth workers are essential to the fabric of society. Schools, families, and many of our social institutions rely heavily on their work, yet their contributions often go unrecognized. Laboring in the Shadows explores the critical role of Black youth workers, especially in the lives of vulnerable youth, and the challenges they face in their unstable, underappreciated position. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/laboring-shadows

Book cover for Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics by T.D. Harper-Shipman (Stanford UP): Unruly Fertility attends to the innovative and unconventional forms of resistance that poor Black women use to decouple their productive and reproductive labor from state efforts to manage their fertility. Forthcoming in July 2026. https://www.sup.org/books/politics/unruly-fertility

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Alina in the Deep by Shenaaz G. Nanji, illustrated by Beena Mistry (Second Story) & Moridja Kitenge Banza: mille et une façons d’en parler / A Thousand Ways to Talk About It by Moridja Kitenge Banza (Figure 1 Publishing). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Moridja Kitenge Banza: mille et une façons d’en parler / A Thousand Ways to Talk About It by Moridja Kitenge Banza (Figure 1 Publishing): With texts by Diane Gistal, Julie Alary Lavallée, Pedro Monaville, and Cheryl Sim. A bilingual chronicle of a sweeping artistic practice that relates history, memory and identity to the lived diasporic experience. https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/moridja-kitenge-banza/

Book cover for Alina in the Deep by Shenaaz G. Nanji, illustrated by Beena Mistry (Second Story): Alina has always dreamed of having a sibling, an instant BFF, and with her cousin Safi arriving from Kenya for the summer, her dream can finally come true. Alina creates a list of things to do with Safi, but nothing goes as planned when she finds it hard to connect with her cousin. Safi is not who Alina expected her to be. She wears her culture proudly and acts in ways that make her stand out—and Alina hates standing out! https://secondstorypress.ca/collections/the-alina-books/products/alina-in-the-deep

I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!

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The cover of On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin from the Penguin Books Great Ideas series

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press) & Myth by Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi). See alt-text.

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Book cover for The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press): Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal. https://www.beacon.org/The-Unicorn-Woman-P2051.aspx

Book cover for Myth by Terese Mason Pierre (House of Anansi): In three movements and two interludes, the poems in Myth move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime. https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth

Eleven books down for 2026, and it’s time for a bit of sport. Not only is the sport not cricket, it’s not even men’s sports that we’re focusing on this time

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