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Becoming Felicity

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

A woman gathers her courage to invite a bestselling author to visit her struggling town in Jan Stites’s gentle novel "Becoming Felicity". A lifelong resident of Loon, Cass is devastated to learn that its library will close without... Read More

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Lessons in Drag

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More

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Virtuality

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

Extrapolating consumerism’s effects on society to their most extreme ends, "Virtuality" is an intricate speculative novel. A broadcast outage threatens to lead to a global economic crisis in Derek Cressman’s speculative novel... Read More

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Novic

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

An immortal considers what it means to live and die in Eugen Bacon’s speculative novella "Novic". Novic, a religious figure with the gift of immortality, leaves home to find a mentor and understand his power. He meets Brad, who poisons... Read More

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The Finest Line

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

A closeted woman in a dystopian society chooses between honesty and artifice in the compelling future-set novel "The Finest Line". A woman comes to terms with her sexual orientation against a backdrop of rising religious and political... Read More

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