15 Small Press Titles You Should Be Reading This Fall

Something I have been thinking about a lot—and talking to other industry peers with—is what has happened to media, and specifically books coverage. This is why even if you have just five dollars, you should consider donating to Electric Literature, who is one of the few remaining outlets specifically devoted to literature. 

Many of the books on this list reflect that same ethos: doing the work when it seems like the larger world might not care. From Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s harrowing novel of a pregnancy journey to Erica Kent’s haunting novel of addiction, or even Drew Buxton’s protagonist Teddy trying to make it as a strongman, the thread running through many of these books is people—or in the case of Open the Floodgates, a sentient river—who keep trying. They keep trying when the odds are against them; they keep trying when there is refugee-camp-level disaster as in