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Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 23h
Featuring @servinghousebooks.bsky.social, @vineleavespress.bsky.social, @ironoakeditions.bsky.social, @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social, @acrebooks.bsky.social, @abodepress.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
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Books Launching in September 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in September 2026.   Freely Frayed by Don Mee Choi Wave Books |…
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Coming soon! Cover reveals for three forthcoming collections from Acre Books! 📚🎉 #essays #poetry
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And just like that the first print run of MANUAL FOR HOW TO LIVE MAGNIFICENTLY sells out! Thank you, readers, for your support! More copies are on the way. Order yours at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... #booksky #fiction 🎉🎉🎉
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Manual for How to Live Magnificently
This debut collection turns the ordinary into sweeping tragicomedy, probing the small, daily confrontations that shape a life well lived.In a debut collection at once deeply felt and delightfully play...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Flashback Friday! Finalist, 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for #Essay: @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's THE GREAT GAME! A critical meditation on the #poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature. 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Great Game
In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature. In The Great Game, poet, critic, translator, and literary omnivore Amit Majmud...
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Sustenance is safer entombed in glass jars or in tins shaped like the artillery shell that tore through her twenty-four-year-old son’s pelvis in Indiana while he was serving in the National Guard." In today's miCRo, Dustin M. Hoffman explores a child's unusual inheritance. Link in thread.
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My upcoming essay collection from @acrebooks.bsky.social has a page (cover coming soon). Available even to pre-order now, if you like to get in on a good thing early 🙏🏻
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kirkus Reviews on BUTTER ROAD: “An understated #novel set among the Amish explores trauma & tradition...The resulting narrative is a quiet chamber drama where internal conflicts abound. Gilbert’s homegrown empathy helps this lyrical novel stand out.” 📚🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Butter Road
A searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence.In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, taking the students hostage and shoo...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just two days left to submit #poetry! ⏰🖊️📚
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I started to distinguish between two kinds of relationships within my family archive: those linked to a version of my identity others easily accepted, and those that reflected an identity I frequently had to prove." Today on the site, @asaldrake.bsky.social walks us through family photos.
Asa Drake, an Asian-American woman with long dark hair wearing a red checked top, rests her head on her hand in front of a window.
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
First Impressions: Daniel Galef’s Behind-the-Scenes Look at Acre Books! acre-books.com/first-impres... #booksky 🎉🎉🎉
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Flashback Friday! Finalist, 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for #Essay: @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's THE GREAT GAME! A critical meditation on the #poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature. 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Great Game
In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature. In The Great Game, poet, critic, translator, and literary omnivore Amit Majmud...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy publication day to Acre author Ernie Wang! Order your copy of MANUAL FOR HOW TO LIVE MAGNIFICENTLY via the link below! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky #fiction press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Manual for How to Live Magnificently
This debut collection turns the ordinary into sweeping tragicomedy, probing the small, daily confrontations that shape a life well lived.In a debut collection at once deeply felt and delightfully play...
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"They sat across from each other at a long craft table, their fingers still numbed from the cold." In today's miCRo by Wanying Zhang, small moments stand in for something larger.
Centered typographic quote: "They sat across from each other at a long craft table, their fingers still numbed from the cold." — credited to Wanying Zhang, "The Broken Leaf"; white text on a dark gray background.An Asian woman with shoulder length black hair stands in a white dress against a nighttime city skyline.
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Time is winding down! #Poets: send us your stuff! Deadline: Sept 30. acrebooks.submittable.com/submit/36627...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congrats to Acre #poet C.D. Eskilson, whose debut collection, SCREAM / QUEEN, has been named the winner of the Balcones Prize! 🎉📚👑 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Editing is a solitary job in many ways (in that it’s generally done by one person at a time, reading one Word document at a time), but it’s also fundamentally an act of community." A (re)introduction from Managing Editor Lily Davenport.
White text on a gray background: "Editors' Dispatches: 'Editing is a solitary job in many ways (in that it's generally done by one person at a time, reading one Word document at a time), but it's also fundamentally an act of community.'"
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
from "The Lighthouse Tattoo." @acrebooks.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see something, some event that otherwise would have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell.” ~ Annie Dillard
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Somehow this book of prose poems (& some of my photographs) is three years old today. Thank you to @acrebooks.bsky.social and to the readers 🙏🏻
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"My granddaughter is   nine months old today.  In the world  for as long as she was   in the womb." In today's miCRo by Michael Eyre, a series of dualities and pauses evoke a meditation on infancy and its fragility.
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy publication day to Acre author Ernie Wang! Order your copy of MANUAL FOR HOW TO LIVE MAGNIFICENTLY via the link below! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky #fiction press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Manual for How to Live Magnificently
This debut collection turns the ordinary into sweeping tragicomedy, probing the small, daily confrontations that shape a life well lived.In a debut collection at once deeply felt and delightfully play...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congrats to Acre #poet C.D. Eskilson, whose debut collection, SCREAM / QUEEN, has been named the winner of the Balcones Prize! 🎉📚👑 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Grateful to @sternbergh.bsky.social & NY Times Opinion for recirculating today my essay about the Palisades Fire and the far-reaching health effects of 9/11. Sadly relevant again in light of recent disclosures about toxic air from WTC dust, smoke, and ash www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Gift Article)
We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 10/09/2026
Acre Books @cincinnatireview.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to poetry submissions. duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Re-opening: Acre Books
Acre Books @cincinnatireview.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/publisher/acre-books-22978 #amwriting
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"How odd, he thinks, for the world to wait till the end to reveal its most magnificent self." Living somewhere between Russian fairy tale and American myth, today's miCRo by Peter Krumbach is both haunting and strangely wry.
Peter Krumbach, a white man with a salt-and-pepper beard, wears a hood over his head and smiles.Quote centered on a dark gray background: "How odd, he thinks, for the world to wait till the end to reveal its most magnificent self." — Peter Krumbach, "Endgame"
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
✨ Acre is open for #poetry submissions September 1 to 30! We’ve moved to Submittable—and we’ve also updated our submission guidelines and editorial statement at acre-books.com/submissions. We look forward to reading your work! 🧡
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Outside, the moon hangs like a wax seal above the mountain line, gibbous and brimming, threatening to drip onto the ridges." In today's miCRo, @skoeplin.bsky.social explores faith and belief. Link in thread.
A woman with long hair and red lipstick smiling softly. She is standing in the middle of a garden
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Manuscript delivered. ‘Ash: Catastrophe, Performance, & the Craft’ (essays) publishing in May with @acrebooks.bsky.social ✨
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Calling #Chicago! The 2026 Printers Row #Lit Fest is set for Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13, 10AM – 6PM. This FREE event features several Acre authors including @thejs3.bsky.social and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social. Link for details! 📚🎉🖊️ printersrowlitfest.org
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Printers Row Lit Fest
The 41st Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, returns to Printers Row on September 12-13, 2026.
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
new poem from my new book! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow. We reached our submissions cap--for both the journal and miCRo--within a record 24-ish hours. We appreciate everyone who eagerly submitted this time. If you didn't get a chance to send to us, we open again in December. And keep an eye on our social accounts for special calls for submissions!
Submission period closed for The Cincinnati Review — bold text "submissions are closed" over a large gray crescent moon, scattered autumn maple leaves, and smaller text reading "Try us again Dec 1."
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
C.T. Salazar for #smallpoemsunday @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
FOR THE CATTLE-TRAMPLED FLOWERS IN THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, EDITED OUT


my heart
is a catfish 
pond where
my father
the fisherman
sleeps
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flashback Friday! "Whether monks discussing the ban on femininity at their sanctuary or a teenage clerk writing about the plastic problem to a famous conservationist, the voices Buck collects here create a striking chorus of humanity.” @ala-booklist.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Dalai Lama’s Smile
In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning. A grieving American father visits Dharamsala to investigate the murder of the son ...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
✨ Acre is open for #poetry submissions September 1 to 30! We’ve moved to Submittable—and we’ve also updated our submission guidelines and editorial statement at acre-books.com/submissions. We look forward to reading your work! 🧡
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Schizophasia is my natural language; every time I speak cogent English, it is because I have medicated away a natural state in favor of participating in an inaccessible society." Today on our site, volunteer Rose Zinnia interviews contributor Rob Macaisa Colgate. Link in thread.
Featured interview graphic highlighting Rob Macaisa Colgate's quote about schizophasia being their natural language and medication enabling participation in an inaccessible society, accompanied by a circular headshot and The Cincinnati Review logo.
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Registration is open for Literary #Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference, the largest free #writing conference in the country. Our very own @lisaampleman.bsky.social will be there to answer questions about all things Acre! Sept 11-12 #booksky 📚🎉🖊️ inkubator.litcleveland.org
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"In hopes of making a living, my eleven-year-old sister takes up the trumpet and stops caring about anything else." In today's miCRo, Theodore Heil sets a snapshot of familial isolation and longing to the tune of B-flat. Link in thread.
Centered serif quote on a dark gray background reading: "In hopes of making a living, my eleven-year-old sister takes up the trumpet and stops caring about anything else." — Theodore Heil, "Luster".Theodore Heil, a young white person, looking over their shoulder toward a distant bridge at sunset, wearing round glasses, a dark baseball cap, a white T‑shirt and a tote strap, framed by trees and calm water.
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My two Acre Books titles, with “New & Selected” coming in 2029. @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Calling #Chicago! The 2026 Printers Row #Lit Fest is set for Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13, 10AM – 6PM. This FREE event features several Acre authors including @thejs3.bsky.social and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social. Link for details! 📚🎉🖊️ printersrowlitfest.org
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Printers Row Lit Fest
The 41st Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, returns to Printers Row on September 12-13, 2026.
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Preorder BUTTER ROAD, Jaclyn Gilbert's “gripping, superb #novel [that] belongs in the canon of contemporary American realism about small communities riven by tragedy, alongside The Sweet Hereafter and The House of Sand and Fog.” —Cara Blue Adams press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉 10/26 #booksky
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Butter Road
A searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence.In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, taking the students hostage and shoo...
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"I like to think of poetry as good at complicated feelings, and nonfiction as good at complicated situations." @arahko.bsky.social interviews Lisa Low about her debut full-length poetry collection, *Replica* (@uwiscpress.bsky.social ), the ethics of writing about family, and more. Link in thread.
A red background and a white quote shape with the words Featured Interview, "I like to think of poetry as good at complicated feelings, and nonfiction as good at complicated situations." Lisa Low. The Cincinnati Review logo is on the bottom left in white. On the right is a picture of Lisa Low, an Asian American woman wearing a white-and-black blouse and standing in front of a green bush.
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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Unfortunately, #scammers are now using my name to make false promises / offers with Acre Books. As a Consulting Editor, I am NOT reaching out via a private account to contact potential authors. #booksky
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
They’re here! So excited to receive my copies of “The Lighthouse Tattoo.” I’m overjoyed. Couldn’t be happier with how it came together. Millions of thanks to my publisher and editor and the whole team at Acre Books. 🔥🎉🍾 @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Congrats @lisaampleman.bsky.social on a fantastic run at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! And, too, to the magazine's incoming managing editor, Lily Davenport! 🎉🎉🎉
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
here's the prose poem I referenced yesterday, from "Bad Mexican, Bad American." @yalereview @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flashback Friday! "Whether monks discussing the ban on femininity at their sanctuary or a teenage clerk writing about the plastic problem to a famous conservationist, the voices Buck collects here create a striking chorus of humanity.” @ala-booklist.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Dalai Lama’s Smile
In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning. A grieving American father visits Dharamsala to investigate the murder of the son ...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MANUAL FOR HOW TO LIVE MAGNIFICENTLY "feels like a love letter to outsiders, lonely people, & anyone struggling to hold themselves together while the world spins faster around them. It is funny, heartbreaking, awkward, tender, messy, & deeply relatable all at once." 📚🎉 share.google/EOqnXEUyVDzc...
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Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang
Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang blends heartbreak, comedy, and loneliness into one unforgettable debut short story collection.
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"a leather trunk and handmade pine box, coffin-sized, for holding rice air-tight." In today's miCRo by Alison Lubar, the speaker reaches for an unnameable loss by glancing at everything around the negative space left by a lost family member. Link in thread.
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Preorder BUTTER ROAD, Jaclyn Gilbert's “gripping, superb #novel [that] belongs in the canon of contemporary American realism about small communities riven by tragedy, alongside The Sweet Hereafter and The House of Sand and Fog.” —Cara Blue Adams press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉 10/26 #booksky
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Butter Road
A searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence.In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, taking the students hostage and shoo...
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Registration is open for Literary #Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference, the largest free #writing conference in the country. Our very own @lisaampleman.bsky.social will be there to answer questions about all things Acre! Sept 11-12 #booksky 📚🎉🖊️ inkubator.litcleveland.org
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