"I prolonged this moment, in which the darkness was so complete, more complete than I had ever experienced before, because I relished it." —Lydia Davis for The Yale Review
"As you gingerly move forward, feeling your way through the dark, the flickering light cast from your torch partially illuminates a peculiar formation on the cave wall." —Izzy Fisher for Aeon
"Yet the crackdown had an unintended consequence, one little examined today: it has increased the suffering of patients who experience chronic pain, as medications that were once heavily promoted have since been restricted." —Ann Neumann for The Baffler
"Over the years, her friends wondered what ever happened to Antonietta. Was she safe? Was she being well-cared for? Was she even still alive?" —Maria Iqbal for Toronto Star
"A shocking act of violence attracted international attention and split the town over questions of truth and justice. Grand Marais is still trying to piece itself back together."
"Fifteen miles into a 30-mile hike in Glacier National Park, when the blue sky turned black and lightning struck the mountains and made the very soil feel electric, it sure as shit didn’t matter what I looked like."
"So much of L.A. life is about coming and going, but the readers here inhabit an in-between space where motion has stopped and time is suspended . . . ."
"Some stories carry echoes of 'Mississippi appendectomies' of the mid-20th century, in which Black women would go in for a different procedure and wake up to learn that their uterus had been removed."