Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, shortlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023. Daniel’s essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and Electric Literature, and have been recognized by Best Canadian Essays and The Best American Essays.

November 2025Books

Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam

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The legend goes that when Kevin Killian was seven and met Shirley Temple, he was so nervous that he vomited on her shoes, no doubt a metaphor for what would become his life of both star obsession and writerly irreverence. 

Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam

September 2024Books

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain

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The unnamed narrator in Small Rain, a poet and teacher in Iowa City, checks into the hospital in excruciating pain and is diagnosed with an infrarenal aortic dissection, a tear of the inner layer of his aorta. As he recovers in a haze of medication and fasting, his mind wanders through the fever dream that is this gripping third novel by master stylist Garth Greenwell.

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain

April 2024Books

Richard Scott Larson’s The Long Hallway

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When Richard Scott Larson was twelve going on thirteen, he started having a recurring nightmare of travelling a hallway full of dangerous, distorted characters toward a door slightly ajar, with someone hidden just behind it in the shadows. To anyone versed in dream language, The Long Hallway will be discomfitingly familiar, yet it is impossible to prepare for the way that Larson describes, in this vivid and cinematic memoir debut, the summer that defined his life.
Richard Scott Larson’s The Long Hallway

Dec/Jan 2023–24Books

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Touching the Art

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“Art is never just art, it is a history of feeling, a gap between sensations,” writes Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Touching the Art, a book that, on its face, is a biography of Baltimore artist Gladys Goldstein, but—because Sycamore is so comfortable writing into this gap—ends up being so much more. Goldstein, who died in 2010, was the author’s grandmother.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Touching the Art

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