I recently read Nikki Reimer’s My Heart is a Rose Manhattan and loved it. I decided to buy her previous two collections as a result, and they came in the mail today.
Reimer, Nikki. DOWNVERSE. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2014.
—. [sic]. Calgary: Frontenac House, 2010.
I just joined PM Press’s Friends of PM program, which sends subscribers several books each month for a flat fee of $30.00. It’s like a leftist Book of the Month Club! I got my first shipment today. There were three books. One is a vegan cookbook that I’m giving away, but these are the two that I am keeping:
Phillips, Gary. The Jook. Oakland: PM Press, 2009.
I am excited to see that this novel is about American football because there are almost no novels about the sport. There is Don DeLillo’s End Zone and Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl (and even this one is a stretch), and that’s about it.
Stout, Mike. Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years; USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy. Oakland: PM Press, 2020.
The cover photograph of this book shows a bunch of workers at a protest yelling with their middle fingers raised.
Daniel Shank Cruz 
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