The Making of “Itzá”: Rios de la Luz on Writing “A Survivor’s Magic Spell”

The short stories in Rios de la Luz‘s debut collection, The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert, effortlessly shifted from head-spinning visions of the uncanny to stark emotional realism and back again, leaving the reader utterly disarmed along the way. Her new novella Itzá fulfills and expands on the promise of that collection, telling a story of several generations of a family that encompasses everything from the transcendence of magic to the everyday horrors that people are capable of. I talked with de la Luz […]

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Vol.1 Brooklyn’s September 2017 Book Preview

What does the month of September have in store, as far as books are concerned? A whole lot of intriguing short fiction, for one thing–everything from meticulously-arranged tales of the uncanny to stylistically bold explorations of society. There’s also intriguing new works from some of our favorite writers, from an experimentally-structured work by John Haskell to a collection of lectures by Toni Morrison. As summer segues into fall, here are some book that might help ease you in to sweater […]

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