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An art book for all ages about the crying we all have in common. Annihilation for Beginners
A collection of 28 stories set across different terrains of Oregon, where creatures, ancient trees, and bodies of water offer solace and companionship to characters living in various aftermaths, all asking and answering the question of how to go on. Single parents invent their own habitats of home, others reckon with the reality of who their children are turning out to be, and young people outgrow innocence and create their own philosophies of survival. The first story collection from award-winning novelist Charlie J. Stephens, Annihilation for Beginners dauntlessly explores wildernesses within and without.
Buckman Journal: Cluster
You’ve never seen clusters like this: human sardining gets out of hand. The toothy doorknob. The memory in fat. The writer is a surgeon is a writer. Aggregates of thread, seeds, offerings.
A woman practices professional detachment. A feather is sent through the mail. A classic protest chant gets an update. The infrastructure for the urban lions. The earth’s appetite. The girl group. The arteries. All these assemblies and more.
Artwork featured: Jo Hamilton, Dan Gluibizzi, Rachel Warkentin, Bell Mayrer, Torea Frey, and Ari Albertson.