Week 19 Recap: Cold Toast Burns Bright
Cold Toast served on a victorious platter
Wearing patterns upon patterns, Moonraker go-go boots, and a box television glow, Cold Toast walked away with last week's win. Literary glory never tasted so good.
Week 19 Winner: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Congrats to Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and the Dahlia Books team!
Week 20: Thou Shalt Read
Hallucinatory figures. A roadside revelation. One serpentine tongue. These covers transcend the sacred and the surreal to convert your inner aesthete into a book cover believer.
- Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada Oliva (Astra House, Sept 2, 2025): A surreal, darkly funny collection of short stories blending body horror, fabulism, and faith.
- Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali (Alice James Books, Jan 16, 2024): Debut poetry weaving Qur’an and Bible imagery to explore faith, gender, and legacies of partition.
- Dominion by Addie E. Citchens (FSG, Aug 19, 2025): A Southern family drama set in Mississippi, where secrets and patriarchy unravel through women’s voices.
- Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee (Astra House, Oct 17, 2023): A surreal workplace novel about a man hired to clean workers’ dreams, a sharp critique of capitalism.
Week 20 Lineup
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