April Ossmann interviewed on the Derate the Hate podcast!
Date: March 3, 2026
April Ossmann discusses poetry collection, WE with Derate the Hate podcast.
Date: March 3, 2026
April Ossmann discusses poetry collection, WE with Derate the Hate podcast.
Date: March 3, 2026
Yellow is a slow-bloom speculative novel and quietly cosmic. It’s a book about how long childhood wonders and wounds can linger, how the universe keeps whispering even when we stop […]
Date: March 3, 2026
Molly McCloy discusses her upcoming memoir, NINE GRUDGES: THE SPITEFUL ORIGINS OF THE HAPPIEST DYKE ON EARTH with Hannah Harlee.
Date: March 3, 2026
It’s 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab’s launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence […]
Date: February 24, 2026
This satirical literary thriller has shades of Joan Didion and Bret Easton Ellis. A 19-year-old NYU dropout returns home to Brentwood to laze about and enjoy popping prescription pills. But […]
Date: February 17, 2026
With Nào and Hoàng’s signature styles of experimentation blending together, the resulting text is a cross narrative exploration of linguistic points that extract worlds populated by squids who are stars, […]
Date: February 11, 2026
What It’s About: Pasadena press Red Hen was established in 1994, and has published over 550 books since then. One of this year’s releases is this novel, set in 1973 Louisiana, about […]
Date: February 10, 2026
There’s a lot that holds us back as creative individuals, but today’s guest thinks one question is the death of our creativity: who cares? The work begins when you shift […]
Date: February 4, 2026
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL revisits struggling newlyweds traveling from Oregon to California in 1875.
Date: February 4, 2026
Andrew Lam reads Grandma’s Tales, from Watermark, and talks with Martha about his life now after journalism.
Date: September 25, 2012
Freelance writer Donald Powell hails Gary Lemons' Snake as both an apocalyptic and tear-filled ride. – "Snake is a wonderful fable, a trickster tale, a vision of a world set […]
Date: September 18, 2012
Here's what Elyssa East of The Kansas City Star had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. – “…an eye-opening read for anyone interested in reconciling […]
Date: August 21, 2012
In praise of Jack Foley's The Dancer and the Dance, Marvin R. Hiemstra, of Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, says, "Here are magnificently crafted studies you won’t find anywhere else. […]
Date: August 21, 2012
Lori Hettler had this to say about David Maine's An Age of Madness in her recent review for TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog. – "Through the brilliance of David […]
Date: August 20, 2012
Chris Henning had this to say about Geoffrey Clark's Two, Two, Lily-White Boys in a recent review in ForeWord. – "Geoffrey Clark ups the ante in this coming-of-age story with […]
Date: August 20, 2012
Susan DeGrane had this to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus in a recent review in Booklist. – "Barth’s tale of growing up gay in the […]
Date: August 16, 2012
HK Rainey of Kelsey Street Press had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house – "In Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house, poems both jarring and lovely […]
Date: August 1, 2012
Rattle reviewer Eric Howard writes admiringly of Veronica Golos's lastest collection of poetry, Vocabulary of Silence: "Aligning herself with the nameless and the silent, Golos makes their story ours." To […]
Date: August 1, 2012
Writing for Politics and Prose Laurie Greer lauds the poetry of Eva Saulitis's newest collection Many Ways to Say It. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When […]
Date: August 1, 2012
In a recent publication, the Wisconsin Bookwatch had some kind words for David Matlin's latest novel. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When you go through life […]