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in Marseilles, France

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Poetry, Fiction, Young Adult

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Natalie D.C. (she/her) is an artist and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her writing grapples with her mental health and queer Moroccan Jewish identity. She has been published in ALOCASIA, orangepeel, fifth wheel press, Art, Strike! and elsewhere. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, she can usually be found re-reading her favorite book over and over, baking with her little sister, or filling her walls with anything and everything that makes her smile. Her debut poetry chapbook, blue pearl, is available for purchase from Bottlecap Press.

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Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros

by Michael Chabon

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A harrowing collection of drawings depicting the horrors of the Palestinian genocide from Lebanese artist Mazen Kerbaj. While I found much of the art too simplistic, I still believe this is an important collection of work from 2023-2024. I also enjoy ...more
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A reflective poetry collection that explores the importance of form. This is my first read of Rudy Francisco and, while I really enjoyed this book's structure (divided by different poetic forms with educational summaries of each form's origin and hea ...more
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“Hello, I hope somebody is listening...If nobody is listening, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

tags: alice-oseman, coming-of-age, fiction, radio-silence, solitaire, unique, young-adult

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“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

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“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

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“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
― Anonymous, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

tags: humorous-quote

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