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Magic City Books and Tulsa Artist Fellowship are delighted to present a special event celebrating two new releases: Notes on Postcards by Jennifer Croft and Jealousy by Sarah Haas. This free, in-store event will take place at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer St. in the Tulsa Arts District on Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at 7:00pm."[Croft's] writings are often poetic in this whimsical book, and the cards themselves are beautifully reproduced and fascinating for both their pictures and their content in this tribute to the past." —Booklist
“[A]mbitious... Haas deploys her formidable intelligence to illuminate her emotional descent: Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes, and a catalog of artists who died by drowning are pressed into service as Haas traces jealousy’s lineage through myth, art history, and social media.” —Publishers Weekly
Notes on Postcards and Jealousy will publish on November 17, 2026. You can purchase copies of their books through Magic City Books at the event.
About Notes on Postcards
Postcards have accompanied Jennifer Croft throughout her life, providing comfort, beauty, humor, and inspiration. When she left her hometown for the first time, she used them to stay in touch with her grandmother. As a translator travelling the world, she bought and mailed them to remain connected to the growing list of countries she called home. She fell in love with her husband while shopping for postcards at a flea market.
In this poetic memoir, Croft takes a closer look at her trusty companions, sharing her collection with the reader and documenting the lifespan of a form of communication that permanently altered the way we see and inhabit the world. Parallel to the story of postcards runs Croft’s own history of familial and romantic love and its culmination in her desire for a child. As she experiences pregnancy, then several devastating family losses, and eventually the birth of twins, she’s forced to rethink everything she thought she knew as a translator and traveler about communication, distance, and desire.
Notes on Postcards is profoundly intimate and honest while also being far-reaching, posing fundamental questions about why and how we connect to each other, to our histories and geographies, our languages, pictures, and ourselves.
About Jealousy
Where does jealousy begin? With the gods? At birth; in childhood? Or in the moment a dating app match lights up a phone?
Jealousy recounts a relationship across familiar milestones—first dates, growing intimacy, sexual frenzy, turmoil and conflict, and finally marriage and childbirth. But it is also a story of unraveling. When, in the early stages of courtship, Sarah Haas inevitably discovers a former partner in an old Instagram post, she becomes consumed. She stalks and she spirals, her ever-shapeshifting obsession assuming the forms of imitation, anger, violent ideation, shame, and insatiable desire. Her jealousy forces her to confront the profane and forbidden emotions coursing through her, and examine the way they manifest in the world around her, too—in Las Vegas hotels, abandoned malls, selfies, iPhone haptics, and mass shootings. Emerging from Haas’s personal story is a bigger narrative about art and culture, one that probes the history of the recorded image and its consequences.
At the heart of this memoir is a fascinating provocation: What if the only way to understand ourselves is to embrace jealousy? To admit it as a part of the self—even if the worst, most despotic part—and then to honestly describe and so face it.
About the Authors
Jennifer Croft won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir, Homesick, and the International Booker Prize for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob. She has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Tulsa.
Sarah Haas is a writer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is an editor at large at Brink Literary Journal, and her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Longreads, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.
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