Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
by Lucinda Williams
"Don't write about your childhood," someone told Lucinda Williams when he heard she was writing this memoir. "Just write about your music." Well, as anyone who loves her music knows—"Child in the back... (Tom)
Meet Frank
by Mavis Lui
On Frank's home planet of Xob, everybody looks the same: green and boxy. So he sets out to find something different and ends up on a planet full of strange creatures that all look different: ours! Wha... (Tom)
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
by Claire Dederer
We haven't been short of think pieces on the subject of, to borrow the title of Claire Dederer's viral 2017 essay that was one of the seeds of this book, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men,"... (Tom)
Sphere: The Form of a Motion
by A.R. Ammons
This is one of my very favorite books, but it took me a hundred months to get up the gumption to send it out to our Phinney by Post subscribers. Why? For one thing, it's a book-length poem. For anothe... (Tom)