Loving Arrangements: Stories about Modern Living and Loving

Love songs and Hollywood romances make it all sound so simple: you find your soul mate, move in together, get married, never stray from the path of monogamy, and live happily ever after. But real life tends to be more complicated. Many couples pursue alternative living arrangements, and some even pursue alternative loving arrangements. 

The twenty-nine personal essays in this collection offer a variety of perspectives and experiences with nontraditional relationships and forms of cohabitation.

JOIN US for a SPECIAL LITERARY EVENT to celebrate the publication of Hannah Lillith Assadi’s latest novel, to meet the author, and discuss this important new contribution to the conversations of exile, love, loss, and life.

Summer Salon! Join us for an evening of new literature, poetry, and visual art with Stephanie Davies, whose new book Surviving a Patriarchy on Steroids helps us find “islands of sanity” in an insane world; poet and meditation guide Jacinta Lanz whose new book On Our Way/En Nuestro Camino is a bilingual work that lives at the intersections of language, body, and breath; Hudson Valley award-winning poet and writing mentor Janlori Goldman who’ll read from Bread from a Stranger’s Oven; and visual artist, Nancy Ostrovsky, a “pioneer of performance painting” who in addition to being an artist who has exhibited all over the world, designed the cover art for Stephanie’s new book Surviving a Patriarchy on Steroids.

Join Alison Kinney and Jennifer Kabat in a discussion about their new books: Alison Kinney’s The United States of Rejection and Jennifer Kabat’s twin memoirs (it’s a triptych, so stay tuned for #3): The Eighth Moon (2025) and Nightshining (2024).