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Amy Shearn, Author of UNSEEN CITY, Has an Essay Published In the NY Times!

Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins. During the height of the pandemic, my mom-friend group chats roiled: I’m going to scream, typed […]

Electric Lit’s BOOKTAILS creates mocktail for Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!

Curl up with a cocktail and Thea Prieto’s “From The Caves,” and walk the line between truth and myth, story and identity SEP 16, 2022 LINDSAY MERBAUM Winner of the […]

Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES is the silver winner in the 2021 INDIES Book of the Year Awards for literary fiction!

Portland Community College creative writing and composition instructor Thea Prieto published her debut novella “From the Caves” in 2021 and is quickly gaining recognition for her writing prowess.

Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES is a 2021 Foreword Indie Book Award Winner in Literature!

Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY listed as one of Early Bird Books’ “Best Book Club Books!”

Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]

Thea Prieto, Sadie Hoagland, and Beth Gilstrap all listed as Foreword Indie Awards finalists!

Thea Prieto featured in CRAFT!

Thea Prieto talks FROM THE CAVES and a changing world with Lily Brooks-Dalton in an interview for Ecotheo Collective!

Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive,” and back in 2016, when Lily Brooks-Dalton’s post-apocalyptic novel Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Random House) was […]

Thea Prieto, author of FROM THE CAVES, will be at The Neverending Bookshop!

The Neverending Bookshop is thrilled to host local author Thea Prieto and her book “From the Caves”. Set in an environmental apocalypse, this lovely book follows four characters as they […]

FROM THE CAVES featured in Literary North’s holiday book gift recommendations!

Who knows better what to recommend for holiday reading and gifting than our beloved independent booksellers? We asked several Vermont bookstores what they were recommending to customers this year because […]

Thea Prieto’s IN THE CAVES is a finalist for the American Book Fest 2021 Best Book Awards!

FROM THE CAVES, by Thea Prieto, makes The Oregonian’s “4 upcoming books from Northwest authors we can’t wait to read” list!

Hasty Book List Interviews Thea Prieto, Author of FROM THE CAVES!

Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume […]

Thea Prieto, author of FROM THE CAVES, interview featured in Heavy Feather Review!

Thea Prieto’s debut From the Caves, winner of the Red Hen Novella Award, contains an entire post-apocalyptic world that is both empty and claustrophobic. In the core days of a […]

Thea Prieto Describes the Writing Process of FROM THE CAVES in the Kenyon Review!

Jeff Alessandrelli-With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One new release that I hope gets […]

FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto featured in The Masters Review Blog!

Prieto, whose micro-fiction was published in The Masters Review in 2016, debuts with this haunting novella, the winner of 2019 Red Hen Press Novella Award, in which environmental catastrophe has driven four […]

Thea Prieto (FROM THE CAVES) writes article for Poets & Writers!

For the past decade an international community of women and nonbinary writers have been working to claim space for themselves in an industry historically dominated by men. Known as Women […]

World Wide Work bulletin shares Martha Cooley’s upcoming BUY ME LOVE & Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY

Thank you for the shout-outs Matt Witt! You can check out his full blog where he presents his photography and film/books/music you may have missed!

UNSEEN CITY featured in GBH!

Each month, Beyond The Page: A WGBH Book Club features a notable author, who takes part in a live Q&A with a WGBH personality to discuss the intricacies of that month’s novel. […]

UNSEEN CITY (Amy Shearn) on Writer’s Bone’s list of 32 books to keep on your radar!

Editor’s note: We’re hard at work finalizing our Best of 2020 book list, so we’re playing a lightning round version of #bookradar! We may be a little pithier than usual, […]

Rebecca McClanahan Interview with Laraine Herring

I met Rebecca McClanahan on Facebook. I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting her in person. I saw the cover of her new memoir in essays: In the […]

Rebecca McClanahan Interview at SOUNDINGS magazine with Sydney Elliot

A PDF of In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays by Rebecca McClanahan sits on my desk, held together with a big clip. The top page […]

Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Work-in-Progress’ TBR series with Leslie Pietrzyk

TBR [to be read] is a semi-regular, invitation-only interview series with authors of newly released/forthcoming, interesting books who will tell us about their new work as well as offer tips […]

Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Talking River Review with Jennifer Anderson

In her new book, In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays, slated for release on September 1, 2020, Rebecca McClanahan recounts the decade that she and […]

Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Hippocampus with Lara Lillibridge

I loved In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays. I read The Tribal Knot during my MFA, so it was a treat to read another book […]

Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Brevity Magazine with Nancy Geyer

In 1998, with a sublet lined up but without jobs, Rebecca McClanahan and her husband left North Carolina and moved to New York City. They were well into middle age. […]

Amy Shearn, the author of UNSEEN CITY, has an article published on Forge.

“The news of the past few days has inspired a flurry of group texts and confused conversations among my friends and colleagues. And the general consensus is that no one knows how to feel […]

Amy Shearn on OtherPPL Podcast

Listen to the full interview here!

OK, So …: Episode 14 – Amy Shearn

Welcome to the Season Premiere and Episode 14 of “OK, So …”. This week, I sat down with Amy Shearn, Editor at Medium and author of three novels, including her […]

UNSEEN CITY is one of “6 Fall Books to Curl Up with All Season Long”

A librarian, a ghost, and New York city walk into a book—and there you have a recipe for what I never realized is my perfect novel, “Unseen City.” What can […]

Amy Shearn on IGTV with Natalka Burian

Amy and Natalka discuss UNSEEN CITY on IGTV. Watch the video here!

Rebecca McClanahan Interview at The Rumpus with Julie Marie Wade

Nearly twenty years ago, I read an essay that has always stayed with me. The writer is reading a copy of Denise Levertov’s Evening Train, which she has checked out from the […]

EcoLit Books Reviews Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!

The end of the world is not for the faint of heart, and neither is Thea Prieto’s bold and beautiful novella about four humans pushed to the limits of climate […]

FROM THE CAVES reviewed in The Rupture!

The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]

Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES is a staff pick at Bear Pond Books!

A fantastic novella of literary merit about a small family living in a cave after the climate apocalypse. Told in language that sings from the point of view of Sky, […]

FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Diagram 21.5!

Being an elder millennial (see: I refuse to use the term ‘geriatric’), I’ve come to accept that I no longer know any of the cool lingo that the kids these […]

FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Publishers Weekly!

In Prieto’s trenchant debut, the survivors of an apocalypse navigate a scorched land full of desolation and desperation. Among the enigmatic cast is Mark, a bossy young man; Tie, a […]

Rain Taxi shows off UNSEEN CITY in their recent magazine issue!

“Funny, spooky, sad, and yet hopeful, Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY is at times a family drama, a ghost story, a commentary on race relations, an intense flirtation, and a love […]

Shelf Media Group reviews UNSEEN CITY by Amy Shearn!

The Past Meets the Present Shearn’s book, Unseen City, is an unexpected entry into an historical home and the contrast between life and death. Or, perhaps more fitting, the contrast […]

Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by River Teeth Journal.

“Perhaps the sheer amount of time devoted to the work is part of the magic. McClanahan’s essays were written in the 2000s, most in and around 9/11, when she and her husband decided […]

Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Kenyon Review

The subtitle “A Memoir in Essays” suggests that this memoir will follow a nontraditional narrative, and its unexpected movements are part of the reward. The narrative rises and falls with […]

Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Brevity’s Non-Fiction Blog

Rebecca McClanahan’s In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays is an exploration of what it means to live in a place, and, in fact, what it means to live […]

Kirkus Reviews: Unseen City

A ghost story that focuses not on a single spirit but on an entire city whose layered history haunts its occupants. “Meg had the unsettling sense that she was seeing […]

Foreword Reviews: Unseen City by Amy Shearn

Amy Shearn’s modern fable Unseen City is anchored by smart, sly humor. It delves into the layered social, psychological, and historical architecture of New York City, a place that’s paved over the […]

Publishers Weekly Review: Unseen City by Amy Shearn

Shearn’s luminous latest (after The Mermaid from Brooklyn) follows a self-avowed librarian spinster; a man researching the history of his father’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn, home; and the ghost of an orphaned […]

Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by PANK magazine

I’ve never lived in New York City, though I’ve always loved it from afar. Visits to friends in Brooklyn, a few work jaunts into Manhattan, a research trip one summer […]