SO WE CAN GLOW came out a month ago! EVERYTHING IS WILD AND STRANGE! I am v grateful for books and hearts and faith and healing and keeping on keeping on. xo
HEART.
"WE, MOONS" + MY THOUGHTS ON SHORT FICTION OVER @ OXFORD AMERICAN
Image by Sanni Sahil via Unsplash
THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR! YOU CAN LISTEN! JOIN US! x
Air date: Mississippi: Saturday, April 4 at 7 pm: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Alabama: Saturday, April 4 at 9 pm: Alabama Public Radio
SWCG BOOK TOUR POSTPONED BUT SAY HELLO TO STAY @ HOME BOOK TOUR!
SO WE CAN GLOW is out today! SO WE CAN GLOW reviewed in the NEW YORK TIMES!
Avail wherever books are sold! Dig IndieBound! And there’s an ebook and an audiobook too!
And and SWCG was reviewed in the NYT and it’s a dreeeeam! xo
Though the 42 stories here often masquerade as slices of domestic life, the scale of the emotional trajectories is treated with the weight of the epic. They are sexy and sly. The dialogue winks and sparks on the page, making every story feel like a flirt. The collection overloads the senses. Even the “sunset light ached,” “lime tastes like good luck,” a woman lusts after a man who stinks of “hot wild onions in burnt brown-sugar dirt,” and pleasure can be found when you “lift up” after pressing on a “yellowish-blue, purple-black bruise”: Cross-Smith’s descriptions are filled with equal amounts of violence and tenderness.
RUMPUS INTERVIEW W MONET THOMAS!
A pleasure, always! READ IT HERE!
SWCG: MAGIC.
"The magic of So We Can Glow is that no matter who you are, no matter your circumstances, no matter your gender identity, when reading this book you become the girls and women in these pages. You hope their hopes, dream their dreams, fantasize and love alongside them…”
