The structure of the book sometimes feels like looping the track, covering the same ground with a slightly newer perspective each time.
Tessa Yang’s debut collection of fiction, The Runaway Restaurant, was released last fall by 7.13 Books. Jen Michalski’s third collection of fiction, The Company of Strangers, was released this January by Braddock Avenue Books. In many ways, that is where the differences end.
We’re thrilled to announce that Lilly Dancyger, who’s worked as an assistant editor on our last two nonfiction books, has agreed to take on a larger role will Barrelhouse, and will be working as lead editor on this next book project.
Edited by the students in Temple’s Writers at Work Class, Fall 2021
Something’s missing… Your keys? Your wife? Your punctuation? Your sanity? Your main character? Stolen, lost, trapped in the void, or maybe it was never there in the first place … Somewhere, somehow, something’s missing.
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