About And Yet:

An innovative work of fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli’s And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through historical references, cultural commentary, and the author’s own restless imagination. And Yet builds off the work of authors as disparate as Michel Leiris, Marguerite Duras, and Kobo Abe, while alluding to the work of Susan Sontag, Young Thug, Young Jean Lee, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, and Louise Glück, among others. With its nameless protagonist simultaneously proud and afraid of his daunting interiority, And Yet‘s form morphs, cracks, and continuously tries to repair itself while becoming a nuanced story of our times. “Love is a thing full of anxious fear. Especially when what you ultimately love and fear is your self,” writes Alessandrelli, and And Yet draws such a notion down, out and around again, arriving at its own idiosyncratic answers by the end of the book.

About Jeff Alessandrelli:

Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of five books, most recently the novel And Yet and the poetry collection Fur Not Light. Work by him has been published in The American Poetry Review, BOMB, Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Fence, and elsewhere. In addition to his writing, he also directs and co-edits the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions.

About Carrie J Walker:

Carrie Walker lives in the dusty borderlands between Bend and Sisters and teaches writing and literature at Oregon Community College and Deer Ridge Correctional Institution. Though she has historically written literary criticism, she has crossed over into creative nonfiction, recently publishing the essay "In the Company of Cougars" in Oregon Humanities. She is currently working on a memoir titled Tangled Up in Blue.