Bøger udgivet af Noemi Press

BEAUTIFUL MACHINE WOMAN LANGUAGE extrapolates Catherine Chen's experiences as a data transcriptionist for the Amazon Echo in order to examine the emotional--often invisibilized--spaces occupied by the human workers who service AI and other emergent technologies. Beginning with a lyric romance between an unnamed data worker and the AI with whom she falls in love, the collection curates a polyphonic space for how we can imagine our languages of desire for collective dreaming, longing, and archiving.

Fiction. These are stories of the American West, a 21st century West where everyone works a shit job; whose denizens know all too well that the dreams they've dreamt of that place are just that, dreams; where the natural world has all but disappeared--often because we refuse to look up and see it. Like the inland sea that gives this collection its name, whose algae blooms 'cumulous, bloody forms just under the surface, ' there is beauty in their ruin.--Bayard GodsaveGeorge McCormick's writing as clear and direct as a fast-moving river, but the lives of his characters never run straight. As his narrator tells us, 'In the West what we love most are lies. What we love are images of a stampede, of animals running; of what we think are the right stories of stealing away.' Don't let these marvelous stories slip past you.--Jesse Lee Kercheval

Girl Work is about haunting and sex after violence, and the work both take to maintain.

Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying tackles universal issues through a trans woman's specific lens - insisting on these experiences speaking to far more than just issues of sexuality and gender.

Inseparable friends Val-and-Tal are used to making their decisions together. But what happens when their choices become their own? CHOOSE THIS NOW, a novel-in-stories, illuminates the small moments that shape their lives across nearly twenty years.

The book loosely navigates the archived immigration trial of Hong On, a biracial Alaska Native-Chinese man, in 1912 on Angel Island, CA during the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Like a ghost in the machine, Travesty Generator remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender.

damn near might still be is what it is is autofiction, memoir and travelogue, road novel, journal entry. Beginning in New York and winding around the world, the unnamed narrator of damn near... confronts what it means to be American, to be Black, to be a tourist and penniless and to fall in love.