Caution: the newsletter you are about to enter contains materials described as "irreverent," "thorny," "thrilling," and "wry." Please be advised: Yorick Goldewijk's illustrated children's stories in The Tree That Was a World are "enchantingly strange." And R.L. Maizes's novel A Complete Fiction levels "spirited digs" at targets including, but not limited to, virtue signaling and performative outrage. Megha Majumdar's A Guardian and a Thief summons a whirlwind of "disasters and escalating crimes," and Tristan Gooley's The Hidden Seasons may inspire readers to "get out and experience nature." Any among the dozens of titles herein may further provoke excitement, interest, laughter, tears, and--most dangerously--thought. You have been warned!
--Dave Wheeler, senior editor, Shelf Awareness