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  • What Counts as Love

    by Marian Crotty ...
    Series series Iowa Short Fiction Award
    In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In “Crazy for You,” two girls spy on a neighbor’s sex life, while their own sexuality hovers in the distance. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Near Strangers

    by Marian Crotty ...
    Series series Autumn House Press Fiction Prize
    Featured in Electric Lit's "15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Winter"Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Fiction Prize, Near Strangers is a collection of eight tightly crafted short stories that follow unexpected connections and tell of queer life in America.Award-winning author Marian Crotty's sophomore collection centers on resilient female protagonists and offers a view into queer ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Summer 2022 Guest-edited by Jamel Brinkley

    by Jamel Brinkley, Maria Anderson, Alexia Arthurs, Marian Crotty, Ben Fergusson, Rav Grewal-Kök, JP Gritton, Arinze Ifeakandu, Dana Liebelson, Gabriel Louis, Gothataone Moeng, Lauren Morrow, Iheoma Nwachukwu, Analía Villagra, Vernon Wilson ...
    As Jamel Brinkley writes in his introduction, “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling.... I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of workthat, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls “a scorched throat,” forms of eloquence that lean into ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Like My Father Always Said . . .

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