staff picks

Back to school—the So to Speak editorial staff has put together a list of reading recommendations for you!

Editor Douglas Luman recommends:

remember to wave

Kaia Sand

this connection of everyone with lungs

Juliana Spahr

Assistant Editor Melanie Tague recommends:

A New Language for Falling Out of Love

Megan Privitello

Lullaby with Exit Sign

Hadara Bar-Nadav

Art Editor Sarah Irvin recommends:

The Mother Knot

Jane Lazarrae

Hold Still

Sally Mann

Blog Editor Holly Mason recommends:

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

River House

Sally Keith

Fiction Editor Justin Lafreniere recommends:

A Night at the Fiesta

Kristin Valdez Quade

Gold Fame Citrus

Clarie Vaye Watkins

Assistant Fiction Editor Bianca Spinosa recommends:

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Good Morning, Midnight

Jean Rhys

Nonfiction Editor Christa Spillson recommends:

The Body: an Essay

Jenny Boully

Wise and Foolish Builders

Alexandra Teague

Assistant Nonfiction Editor Meg Sipos recommends:

On Immunity

Eula Biss

Bastard out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Poetry Editor Danielle Badra recommends:

Seam

Tarfia Faizullah

Gardening in the Dark

Laura Kasischke

Assistant Poetry Editor Ben Brezner recommends:

duende

Tracy K. Smith

Bluets

Maggie Nelson