Both Aimee Liu and I now find ourselves sheltering at home and woefully contemplating a social and commercial landscape that is forcing booksellers, publishers and authors to reinvent the very definition of a book launch.
Author: Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons is the author of five books of fiction, including the recently released story collection, Vanishing, and the novel Sinking Islands, forthcoming in 2021.
A Word Person Thinks About Bodies
Apparently, even in 2020, there is something suspect, even shameful, about devoting too much page time to the body, despite the fact that we all conduct our lives from within a body. But I’ve been body-observant for years—perhaps because my mother loved her own body.