nonprofit publisher of Joyland Magazine, a literary journal, and Joyland Editions, a small press publishing two novellas every year
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LEARNING by Courtney Bush, the third novella from Joyland Editions, is out today!
Read an excerpt in Joyland Magazine.
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The next To a Green Thought Book Club pick is Learning by Courtney Bush. (I really love this book.) We’ll be meeting via Zoom on December 13th at 3pm ET to talk about it. Open to all Founding Members of the newsletter. Subscribe at the link: garthgreenwell.substack.com/…
"We will break all of these promises, some of them almost immediately, each in our own ways." —from LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out now from Joyland Editions
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"I had a tenuous connection with my past self. I didn’t understand why I had done things. Major things." —from LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out now from Joyland Editions
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"I languished in the few moments where I wasn’t yet anybody. Then came the parts of myself, the articulable variables that made up my life."
This week in Joyland Magazine: an excerpt from Courtney Bush's LEARNING, out now from Joyland Editions.
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It's so gripping - just excellent all the way around!
LEARNING by Courtney Bush, the third novella from Joyland Editions, is out today!
Read an excerpt in Joyland Magazine.
joylandpublishing.com/fictio…
LEARNING is available for purchase from @asterism_books and in select indie bookstores.
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"To care for a child, you have to go into the dark and hostile places with them. You have to go into feeling, all feeling. You stay with the child and let them know you’re there too." —from LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out June 23 from Joyland Editions
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"His father looked at the mangled wound and then at Paul, raising his eyebrows. Drama queen, he said, quietly, just to Paul. The first of their little jokes."
New this week in Joyland: "Prawn" by Dylan Ohryu (@uniqload)
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"I do not cultivate the kind of love I want back later. I cultivate my own love, then pass it out like cut flowers." —from LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out June 23 from Joyland Editions
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"He had masturbated in that bed for the first time when he was twelve. He was still masturbating in it at thirty-four. That was the kind of life he had."
New today in Joyland: "Prawn" by Dylan Ohryu
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"I had no choice but to submit. I loved releasing myself to them." —from LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out June 23 from Joyland Editions
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Join us next Tuesday, June 23rd, at Public Records (@233butler) to celebrate the launch of LEARNING by Courtney Bush. RSVPs suggested; tickets are free.
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“As long as I can remember, one of the only requirements I’ve had for falling in love is that someone has a mind that works differently than mine.” —from LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out June 23 from Joyland Editions
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"ALL GIRLS BE MINE ALONE is an homage not to opera but to the ruins of opera, an irreverent elegy to the very possibility of elite culture."
Thank you to Max Larson (@loadedonloaded) for such a thoughtful review of Sophie Strohmeier's ALL GIRLS BE MINE ALONE.
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"It had to be cheap. It had to be shitty." —from "The Regulars" by August Thompson
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"I’d been 'self-employed' for a while, which I eventually downgraded to 'unemployed.'" —from "The Regulars" by August Thompson, new this week in Joyland
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Join us in celebrating the launch of LEARNING by Courtney Bush, the third novella from Joyland Editions, on June 23rd. RSVPs are suggested; entry includes one drink ticket.
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Today in Joyland: August Thompson’s “The Regulars” explores the romance of an American staple: the shitty dive bar.
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