I am so undone this morning, in the best way. It has been six months since we started our most recent search for the next Left Unread project and, while I have found some truly amazing projects, I knew I was looking for something very very specific and I was determined to take as long as necessary to find it.

I knew early on that I wanted Left Unread to represent authors across a wide variety of genres and conversations, which means I don't want every book to speak to the same people, or about the same thing. I believe literature has the power to reshape the way people think. It forces readers to renegotiate their understanding of the world we all live in. It helps us see through a wider lense. Which means we need stories that speak to the many systems and cultures that make the world run the way it does.

If we want art to impact the world we live in and to help drive humanity toward liberation, one of our goals has to be challenging people to wrestle with the many barriers that keep us from collective freedom.