Slant Books

SAVE THE DATES! Slant's online book launch for Darren Cools' new YA novel, Light in the Canyon, will take place on June 23rd. AND if you're in the Ypsilanti area, come meet Darren at The Corner Brewery on June 25th!

Register for Zoom launch here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

SAVE THE DATES! Slant's online book launch for Darren Cools' new YA novel, Light in the Canyon, will take place on June 23rd. AND if you're in the Ypsilanti area, come meet Darren at The Corner Brewery on June 25th!

For no particular reason this week... thought we'd share some results for an accepted Slant MS.

"I wasn’t looking to some Being, some Creative Force I call 'God' to relieve me of the pain. I was troubled at not being able to experience God in the narrow space, the place in which I was trapped and from which I was frantic to escape." Read Richard Chess on living with pain:

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Local to southeast Michigan, or feel like traveling? Come celebrate the launch of my first young adult novel! All ages welcome (teens especially encouraged) and the event is free! June 25, 6:30 p.m. @ the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti.

"For me, holding our hearts open is a way of moving past the dichotomies we often think in." Read Brandi Willis Schreiber's stunning interview with Robert Cording about "What's Possible: New and Selected Poems" on Substack:

Slant at Barnes and Noble! Thanks to the reader who snapped this shot of @HowardSchaap's new book in Sioux Falls, SD.

"Cording and his wife have come, now, to a kind of closure: they don’t need to ask, 'Where are you?'—because they know now where he is: 'inside us.' And from within them, he shows them how to 'look around.'" Read Peggy Rosenthal on Robert Cording's New and Selected:

In case you missed it: Our reading and conversation with Robert Cording for this week's release, What's Possible, is available now on YouTube and Spotify!

Book mail is the best mail—and I’ve been anticipating this one from @darrencools for sometime. A new YA story of loss and courage, Light in the Canyon explores how change can help us discover who we’re truly meant to be. Sounds like the resilience I am looking for! Let me know if you’d like to publish my review. @SlantBooks is doing great work!

“I believe with my entire self in what Wendell Berry has said: ‘Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.’” Read our Q&A with Robert Cording, whose new and selected volume What's Possible is out this week:

Behind the scenes of next month's release: check out this interview with debut author Darren Cools on the Life in Michigan podcast! Below:

BREAKING: Meeting expanded! Due to unprecedented demand, some folks were unable to register for tonight's event with Robert Cording. We have expanded the Zoom meeting. Try again at the link below, and contact us if you have any issues. See you tonight!