We've got an excellent new offering in the Chin Music Press store. Xconnect is a literary review published by a nonprofit called CrossConnect at the University of Pennsylvania (Craiger's alma mater). A print version comes out just about every year, and this is the latest.

The subtitle of the review — "writers of the information age" — gives a hint at what to expect: everything from modern poetry to translated works from Vietnam, black-and-white photographs, stories from Africa, to haunting cover art by Ray Caesar (pictured here). It's made for the modern reader who is undaunted at the prospect of switching from continent to continent and from essay to poetry to photograph as he or she turns each page.

This is CrossConnect's seventh edition of Xconnect, and it features writings by Russell Banks, Barbara Tran, Anyssa Kim and Vietnamese poetry translations from Linh Dinh.

If you have a publication or work of art that you'd like to sell in our store, let us know. We'd like to expand our offerings in 2006. And, since we know firsthand how hard it is to get books and art out to a larger audience without a big distributor on your side, we make a point of paying up front for everything we sell here. So you can earn a little cash right away if we think your work will sell.