The Summer 2024 issue of Wordgathering includes 18 book reviews of a wide range of works including poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction, essays, critical queer and trans mad studies, illustrated children’s literature, young adult literature, science fiction, and more. The texts reviewed in this issue are:
- Alexandre Baril, Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide
- Julia Watts Belser, Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole
- H. E. Casson (ed.), There’s No Place
- Kara Dorris, HitBox
- JJJJJerome Ellis, Aster of Ceremonies
- Cait Gordon, Season 1: Iris and the Crew Tear through Space!
- Ona Gritz, Everywhere I Look: A Memoir
- Ona Gritz, The Space You Left Behind
- Beth Haller, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World
- Raye Hendrix, What Good is Heaven
- Jennifer Ruth Jackson, Domestic Bodies
- Sandra Gail Lambert, My Withered Legs and Other Essays
- Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (eds.), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method
- Shane Neilson, Saving: A Doctor’s Struggle to Help His Children
- Dorothy Ellen Palmer and Maria Sweeney, The Scooter Twins
- Sage Ravenwood, Everything that Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost
- Kris Ringman, Sail Skin
- Ann E. Wallace, Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul
As Wordgathering has grown, the number of requests that we receive for book reviews has likewise grown. Writers who would like to review books for or have books reviewed by Wordgathering should send queries to wordgathering@syr.edu. Please refer to our Submission Guidelines for more information.
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