Elizabeth Hardwick – Sleepless Nights (re-read)
Emily J Edwards – Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man
Bob Dylan – The Philosophy of Modern Song
Robert Silverberg – The Hot Beat
Teju Cole – Open City
Dave Alvin – New Highway
Teju Cole – Every Day is for the Thief
Daniela A. Olivas- How to Date a Flying Mexican
Alex Segura – Silent City
Lee Smith – Cakewalk
Lee Smith – News of the Spirit
Maryse Conde – The Belle Creole
Lee Smith – Oral History
Manuel Munoz – The Consequences
Paul Sexton – Charlie’s Good Tonight
Teju Cole – Black Paper
Teju Cole – Blind Spot
Toni Ann Johnson – Light Skin Gone to Waste
Walter Mosley – Every Man a King
Leonard Cohen – A Ballet of Lepers
Danyel Smith – Shine Bright
Joel Engel – LA ‘56: A Devil in the City of Angels
Laura Wardell – Sweet, Soft Plenty Rhythm
Daniel Black – Don’t Cry for Me
Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
Mark Guarino – Country and Midwestern
E.P. O’Donnell – The Great Big Doorstep
Tom Piazza – The Auburn Conference
Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
Daniel Black – 12 Gates to the City
Lee Smith – The Last Girls
Caleb Azumah Nelson – Small Worlds
Cynthia Bond – Ruby
Gayl Jones – Butter
Victor Aguilar Camin – Day In, Day Out
Yanick Lahens – Sweet Undoings
Ivan Webster – The Cares of the Day
Randall Kenan – A Visitation of Spirits
Randy Wayne White – North of Havana
Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ana Castillo -Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home
Louis Nordan – Lightning Song
Ana Menendez – The Apartment
Emily J. Edwards – Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River
Lewis Nordan – Wolf Whistle
Lee Smith – Silver Alert
David A. Less – Memphis Mayhem
Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya – The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
Harold Rogers – Tropicalia
Lewis Nordan – Boy With Loaded Gun
Sam Lipsyte – No One Left to Come Looking for You
Alan Leeds – There Was a Time
Daniel Weizmann – The Last Songbird
Cristina Garcia – King of Cuba
Latoya Watkins – Holler, Child
Colson Whitehead – Crook Manifesto
Itamar Vieira Junior – Crooked Plow
Cedric Kyle – Flipping Boxcars
Joe Ide – Fix It
Denise Mina – The Second Murderer
Jake LaMar – Viper’s Dream
Ed. Summer Farah – Sarah Lyn Rogers – Best Debut Short Stories 2023
Henry Threadgill & Brent Hayes Edwards – Easily Slip Into Another World
Ed. Tim Hennessy – Milwaukee Noir
Charmaine Wilkerson – Black Cake
Thomas E Ricks – Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won It’s Battles
Jose Falero – Pedro and Marques Take Stock
Glen DaCosta w/ Dave Peters – This is Reggae
Derek Owosu – That Reminds Me
Salvatore Pane – The Neorealist in Winter
Joel Selvin with Chris Strachwitz – Down Home Music
Aaron Neville – Tell It Like It Is: My Story