There is a person by the name of Daniel Blue.
Now available.
Men and women struggle to claim genders, relationships, and more, as they are depicted in 10 stories in the debut collection of the author. A trans psychic who frequents a witch subreddit is gifted with extra sensory perception. She can read minds but only those who are stuck indecision. The more mundane the decision. A story about a black hole used for garbage is about what we choose to keep and what we don't. The book is squishy here and muscled there, imperfect and queer, like the body itself.
Negar Mottahedeh is a writer.
Now available.
After the Islamic revolution in Iran, Kate Millett went to Tehran to celebrate International Women's Day. There were demonstrations for women's rights in the city. She recorded her observations on a tape recorder. She wasn't able to comprehend everything that was happening around her because she didn't speak Farsi or know much about Iran. Negar Mottahedeh, a professor at Duke, recreates the early days of the women's movement with quotes from speeches and debates picked up in the background of Millet's audio. The Iranian women's movement has been there since the start of the Islamic Republic and the book shows that.
The person is Baek Sehee.
On November 1st.
Baek Sehee decided to see a Psychiatrist after floating in some feeling between the two. She was a successful woman in her twenties who was managing social media at a Korean publisher. It was time to talk to someone about her depression. Sehee asked her therapist to record her sessions in order to remember them. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, which was a hit when it was first published in South Korea, comprises edited transcripts of these conversations, as well as short essays where Sehee muses on her take from the process. Don't allow the structure to fool you. Sehee wrote about the confusion, frustration, and moments of fleeting revelation that are part of the therapeutic process. Sehee has a preoccupation with empathizing for herself and others. She writes that her world froze after she cooled down. Her memoir promises to thaw readers out.
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