Week 21 Recap: Notes on Nothing Wins Something
A book about Nothing that is also about Everything, Notes on Nothing took last week's invisible crown in a vanishing act of anonymity, paradox, and spiritual resonance.
Week 21 Winner: Notes on Nothing by Anonymous
Congrats to Nobody and the As Is Press team!
Week 22: The Object
A golden bar. A beard. A motel key. A milk carton. This week’s contenders depend upon sole objects to carry the cover's weight.
- Universality by Natasha Brown (Random House, Mar 4, 2025): A near-fatal attack with a gold bar spirals into a mystery about language, media, and meaning in modern Britain.
- Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage by Kelly Foster Lundquist (Eerdmans, Oct 30, 2025): A candid memoir of a young marriage between a straight woman and a closeted gay man, reckoning with harm, faith, and tenderness.
- Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel by Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books, Jun 24, 2025): Absurdist, transformative tales of guests who check in, encounter impossible objects, and leave forever changed.
- milktooth by Jaime Burnet (Vagrant Press, May 6, 2025): A lyrical, darkly funny novel of queer love, abuse, and escape, where a milk tooth becomes emblem and omen.
Week 22 Lineup
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