“Book Descriptions: Presenting our first ever Rose Books Reader—a printed collection of work by writers we admire. The theme for this volume is “Primal Scream,” filled with characters and narrators on the edge and in various states of emergency or desire. This is a collection filled with collapse, entrapment, and desperation—it’s unhinged, hallucinatory, hormonal. In other words, this is the perfect companion to 2025.
Writers: Esther Alter Maeve Barry Kate Barss Eric Boyd Michael Buckius Blake Butler Danielle Chelosky Christina D’Antoni Erin Dorney Kate Durbin Owen Edwards Juliet Escoria Matthew Gasda Nicola Maye Goldberg Julia Hannafin James Jacob Hatfield J. Kemp Lexi Kent-Monning Yin Lichuan (trans. by Cecily Chen) Amy Lyons Amelia Mangan Shay McIntosh Clare Michaud Shelby Newsome Breen Nolan JoAnna Novak Gina Nutt Amy Raasch Zoë Ranson Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya Cody Roggio Brooke Segarra Nicole Sellew Dena Soffer Catherine Spino Mary Alice Stewart Gina Tomaine Felicia Rosemary Urso Adam Voith Natalie Warther Shy Watson Ray Wise BR Yeager
Edited by Katie Coleman Cover design by Steak Mtn Interior design by Adam Robinson
All Rose Books titles are printed in the United States. The Rose Books Reader has a glossy cover and is printed on 55# Rolland Enviro Book Paper.” DRIVE