Mary Odden’s Blog
Date: June 4, 2020
https://www.maryodden.com/neighborsblog
News & Reviews
News:
Lithub: Finding My Story in the Colonial Past of the Andaman Islands
Date: June 3, 2020
My new novel Glorious Boy began with a dream. On a tropical island during an emergency evacuation, a young girl was hiding in a dense rainforest with a small, mute white boy […]
Caroline Leavitt’s Blog Interview with Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Aimee Liu talks about GLORIOUS BOY, the excruciating process of writing, creating a memorable silent character, her shapeshifter dad, and so much more.
Ms. Q&A: Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
Date: June 3, 2020
Some 30 years ago, an established nonfiction writer and a screenwriter decided to write their first novels. They met in a fiction writing class, and have been friends ever since, […]
NY Times: Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out
Date: June 3, 2020
Featured mentioning of Percival Everett’s Colonel Hap Thompson!
OutSmart: National Poetry Month 2020 Reading List
Date: June 3, 2020
Presented in five poetic sequences, the poems in Hold Me Tight by gay poet Jason Schneiderman focuses the reader’s attention on the subjects of anger, real and metaphorical wolves, the work of the late […]
Washington Independent Review of Books: An Interview with Donna Hemans
Date: June 3, 2020
At 15, Plum Valentine is banished from her Brooklyn home and sent back to Jamaica by parents nervous about the pernicious effects of the American lifestyle. Once there, her trust […]
Electric Lit: I Can Only Save My Grandparents’ Home by Preserving It in Fiction
Date: June 3, 2020
In the bedroom of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer, there’s a mural depicting a well-dressed crowd at a cocktail party pasted to the wall. Spencer’s granddaughter, Shaun Spencer-Hester, points to […]
Amherst Bulletin: The price of protest: New novel looks at the consequences for two sisters caught up in the anti-war movement
Date: June 3, 2020
Family relations can be fraught in the best of times, even when people care deeply for one another. So what happens when you throw those family members into a situation […]
CrimeReads: Excerpt from Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: June 3, 2020
It’s Detroit, 1968. Sisters Rosa and Esther march against the war in Vietnam with their best friend, Maggie. As they reached the rally site, double rows of blank-faced National Guard […]
Reviews:
North of Oxford reviews THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT by Lynnell Edwards
Date: October 1, 2024
By g emil reutter There is much involved when dealing with mental illness in a family member. There is always the hope for a turnaround, a recovery and in some […]
Hyperallergic reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 17, 2024
If Hilma af Klint’s monumental paintings could speak, what would they say? Didi Jackson answers this with a resonant collection of poems, several written from the perspective of the Swedish […]
The Florida Review Online reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Poetry Foundation reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Shelf Awareness reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Library Journal reviews Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Chicago Review of Books reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY features Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY in THE MUST LIST!
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
PASADENA STAR-NEWS praises Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!