Excellent under-the-radar books, recommended by writers.

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A stack of books.
ONE INCREDIBLE BOOK
Overlapping sheets of paper with introductions and illustrations on them.
AN INTRO BY THE RECOMMENDING WRITER
POSTCARDS + A BOOKMARK WITH ART BASED ON THE BOOK
The contents of Box 11, including The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, an introduction by Jae Towle, two postcards and a bookmark.
Box 10
The contents of Box 9, including Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss, an introduction by Joel Hans, two postcards and a bookmark.
Example of contents of the box: a book, the recommender's ode to the book, postcards and a bookmark
Example of contents of the box: a book, the recommender's ode to the book, postcards and a bookmark
Example of contents of the box: a book, the recommender's ode to the book, postcards and a bookmark
The contents of Issue 5: the book Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti, the ode to the book by Karen Russell, a bookmark and two postcards.
Box 4
Example of contents of the box: a book, the recommender's ode to the book, postcards and a bookmark
Example of contents of the box: a book, the recommender's ode to the book, postcards and a bookmark
The contents of Box 1, including Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita, an introduction by Samuel Rafael Barber, two postcards and a bookmark.

Box #1
September 2021: Samuel Rafael Barber // Karen Tei Yamashita‘s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest 

Box #2
October 2021: Aurelie Sheehan // Cherríe Moraga‘s Native Country of the Heart

Box #3
November 2021: Melissa Faliveno // Gabriel Bump‘s Everywhere You Don’t Belong

Box #4
December 2021: Frances Cannon // Chelsey Johnson‘s Stray City

Box #5
January 2022: Karen Russell // Nana Nkweti‘s Walking on Cowrie Shells

Box #6
February 2022: Ander Monson // Yōko Ogawa‘s Revenge

Box #7
March 2022: Thomas Dai // Jen Bervin‘s Silk Poems

Box #8
April 2022: Kate Bernheimer // Kathryn Davis‘ Labrador

Box #9
May 2022: Joel Hans // Zachary Doss‘ Boy Oh Boy

Box #10
June 2022: Callum Angus // Guadalupe Nettel‘s Bezoar

Box #11
July 2022: Jae Towle // Tove Jansson‘s The Summer Book

Box #12
August 2022: David Naimon // Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Visitation

Box #13
September 2022: Janalyn Guo // Manuela Draeger‘s In the Time of the Blue Ball (translated by Brian Evenson with Valerie Evenson)

Box #14
September 2022: Stephanie Madewell // MYSTERY BOOK

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