Peauxdunquians have more great news to report on the publications front:

• April Blevins Pejic‘s essay, “Genetic Driftwood,” will appear later this fall in the Massachusetts Review‘s 60th anniversary issue.
• Lavinia Spalding‘s essay, “Cabin,” originally published by Longreads, is being reprinted by Lonely Planet; and her story, “How Korean Karaoke Saved My Life,” originall published by World Hum, was reprinted by the New Zealand Herald.
• Susan Bennett Vallee‘s piece, “The Reality of Racism,” about Maurice Carlos Ruffin‘s debut novel, We Cast a Shadow, has been published by Vie magazine.
• Anne Babson‘s poem, “September Bunker,” will be published in Curator magazine; and her poems “Before” and “Findings at the Reichstag” will be published by India-based Ethos.

Maurice also moderated a conversation with friend-of-Peauxdunque Sarah Broom, on the packed-house/standing-room-only occasion of the release of her book, The Yellow House. Much love to our whole literary community!

Waaaaayyyy up at the front, beyond the mass of folks who turned out for the release of Sarah Broom’s Yellow House, are Sarah and Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Aug. 28, 2019, at Garden District Books.