Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Reading literature can give us a place to turn right now — and not just because it’s comforting. It’s because it helps us grapple with enormous ruptures in time. There’s […]
Date: June 2, 2020
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Photographer Dorothea Lange had an eye for capturing what was going on around her – the Great Depression, Japanese American internment camps during World War II. […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Atop the Earth’s mantle, rock moving: Continents are milk skin floating on cocoa. A restless interior sweeps them along. In trenches minerals decay— at the core landmasses digest themselves. The crust does not movein one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Hulky & afloat on seas of parkingthe old Plaza dated from the fifties— sold Day Glo Ice & jelly […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Library Journal features Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Felicia Zamora’s Body of Render.
Date: June 2, 2020
Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet Tess Taylor for a hike on a steep hill near her home. It was one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
EL CERRITO — Local poet Tess Taylor has recently released her fourth book, had one of its poems published in the New York Times and wrote an opinion piece for […]
Date: June 2, 2020
In a series, various writers share what have they been reading while sheltering in place. Today, NPR poetry reviewer Tess Taylor lists what is helping her to get through.
Date: December 16, 2009
Chronogram Magazine reveiws Love in TennesseeTennessee WaltzJohn Bowers Looks Homewardby Nina Shengold and photographs by Jennifer May, November 25, 2009American literature has its own railroad map, with tracks that meander […]
Date: December 8, 2009
Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are two points of consensus. Almost all of the interviewees call revision the most essential element of successful writing, and […]
Date: November 28, 2009
“Indeed, as Timothy Green claims in Hiking Alone, perhaps all we ever want is a little darkness to climb out of. In American Fractal, he provides the dark, the light, […]
Date: November 28, 2009
Opening Timothy Green’s first full-length collection is like entering a fun house and stepping into the room where distorted mirrors reflect back into themselves ad infinitum. The concept of the […]
Date: November 18, 2009
Illuminating Fiction: Today's Best Writers of Fiction Sherry Ellis. Red Hen (Chicago Distribution Center, dist.), $19.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59709-068-1Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are […]
Date: October 8, 2009
By John Sheirer (Connecticut) – See all my reviewsReviewed for Nights and Weekends by John Sheirer The nameless young girl at the center of Diane Payne's wonderful Burning Tulips is […]
Date: September 24, 2009
Erinn Batykefer’s award-winning debut collection given a 4 1/2 star review on Library Thing: “The mark of excellent poetry is that it leads you to places you could never find […]
Date: September 9, 2009
Ching-In Chen’s debut collection of poems is a sprawling and ambitious work …. I found myself admiring the book for being so satisfyingly messy, for allowing itself to sprawl and […]
Date: July 4, 2009
A lot of the most exciting prose published in the last couple years is enlivened by the introduction of non-English elements. The Times Book Review made note of the way […]
Date: June 22, 2009
6 + 1: Interview with Timothy Green I introduce a new feature, the "6 + 1" interview. I ask my guests six questions, and they get to ask me one […]
