Baring the Device: Ethics in Publishing

The Gravity of the Thing’s editors have compiled a brief list of resources that relate to ethical practices in publishing. Here are a few ways writers, editors, and publishers are critically analyzing literary craft and publishing processes.

Everyone Else Is Crazy | Justin McDevitt

"Sometimes the woman thought the trees protected her and sometimes she thought the trees would kill her. Sometimes, too, she could hear them talking, hear them calling to her..."

At the Florist Shop | Nicki Youngsma

"I want to be drenched in flower musk, breathing it to bind what’s broken; today is April Fool’s, but all jokes have become decrepit; the bouquets with roses are too neat, too coiled, too circular..."

Selected Poems | jms xuange

"I wouldn’t mind / being dizzy more often, falling down and into things, / spilling other people’s drinks in fancy restaurants. / I’d like the attention—being asked to leave..."

How It Happened | Brenna Dean

"Danny fell asleep. His hunting rifle was propped up against a tree. He left the safety off. You never leave the safety off. Danny dozed on the ground, leaning against the tree, and then he shifted and knocked over the gun..."

The Effects of Monophosphoryl Lipid A on the Development of Multiple System Atrophy | Jack Dixon

"The resulting rupture in the singularity of the researcher’s consciousness was described as ‘desperate, painful, and deeply unsettling’ and persists to the date of publication..."

Threshold | Wen Jing

"Threshold is a wall. When you look at those orange bricks, you see smears of blood. It’s from the last woman who tried to go through the wall..."