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: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
Date: May 3, 2021
Deborah A. Lott’s Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir is the story of a young woman’s coming of age and how she separates her own identity from her family’s. She […]
