Date: April 16, 2026
To put it plainly, we are not shocked anymore. Not really, not by the current delivery mechanisms that have risen to fill our feeds, our media intakes, etc. We simulate […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Last night, FLAUNT and Luke Goebel celebrated the release of his novel Kill Dick with an intimate gathering at Genghis Cohen Los Angeles.
Date: April 15, 2026
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel KILL DICK.
Date: April 15, 2026
Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author who has written about the overseas Vietnamese experience. He visited Boston’s Ford Hall Forum to discuss his latest collection, “Stories from the Edge […]
Date: April 15, 2026
In 2018, while working as a high school teacher in Oakland, Alan Chazaro would often bike around at night and stargaze by the city’s largest lake. He began to write […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Poet Molly Fisk sits down with Ben C. Davies at Ginosko Literary Journal to discuss her writing life, influences, and creative practice, as well as her new novel-in-verse Walking Wheel […]
Date: April 14, 2026
Los Angeles is not a city that produces novels. It produces pressure. It produces atmosphere. At face value, its promise is that it will always go on to produce pleasure, […]
Date: April 14, 2026
lan Chazaro is a Bay Area-raised poet, journalist, and educator now living in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, whose work bridges hip-hop, Chicano identity, and speculative imagination. He is the author of […]
Date: April 14, 2026
In an interview from Spain, the multi-talented Luke Goebel shared some insights to his new novel, Kill Dick. Goebel is the co-writer of feature films such as Eileen, starring Anne […]
Date: April 14, 2026
The club of Nevada County Poet Laureates is small but complex; when Molly Fisk first received the call to action she wasn’t so sure. It seemed like a daunting task […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is not a novel that seeks to comfort its reader. Instead, it draws you into a world stripped of illusion, where survival […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Molly Fisk takes up the challenge with, Walking Wheel, a narrative suite from the decorated California poet which functions as a novel-in-verse. Set in the frontier country of the California-Oregon […]
Date: April 14, 2026
At the beginning of Amy Pence’s debut novel, Yellow (Red Hen Press; 232 pages), 12-year-old Eliza makes a strikingly topical observation about the Watergate scandal blowing up in the summer […]
Date: April 7, 2026
Luke Goebel’s novel “Kill Dick” is both playful and grotesque. The story revolves around a series of brutal murders in Los Angeles motel rooms, the bodies desecrated, with nipples glued to eyelids, […]
Date: April 6, 2026
Ding dong, now Dick is dead. Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick: every sentence strains to shock with its edginess or searing, cooler-than-you cultural critique. It […]
Date: April 2, 2026
In this galaxy, but in a time and at a conference now somewhat far away, I saw a very long line of women holding books, their faces bright with anticipation. […]
Date: March 31, 2026
Molly Fisk is Inaugural Poet Laureate Emerita of Nevada County. Her historic novel-in-verse, Walking Wheel, comes out April 7th from Red Hen Press.
Date: March 25, 2026
Benedict (Wolf Season) unspools a harrowing story of an Iraqi refugee family’s attempts to fit into American society. During the Iraq War, Khalil served as an interpreter for the U.S. […]
Date: March 24, 2026
Full review to come on April 1! “Wednesday, July 16, 1969. When all of America had its eyes on the moon, the Mannings inMission Hills, Michigan, suffered a wrenching personal […]
Date: March 24, 2026
Full review to come April 1! “Chace’s latest (after Capture the Flag, 2010) is told mostly through flashbacks and is heavily dependent on what the characters are thinking as they […]
