Congrats to Eloise!
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
The New Criterion reviews News from the Village
Date: March 16, 2020
The New Criterion has a nice review up of David Mason’s lyrical memoir, News from the Village: Aegean Friends. Here’s a taste: “In one of the book’s most eloquent passages, […]
My Life in Clothes… in the Wall Street Journal!
Date: March 16, 2020
First the Economist, then the Wall Street Journal, and then the world! Summer Brenner’s wonderful short story collection, My Life in Clothes, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal‘s holiday gift […]
The Last Jewish Virgin reviewed in NewPages
Date: March 16, 2020
Yet another great review of Janice Eidus’s The Last Jewish Virgin, this one from New Pages. It’s like the book is good or something. An excerpt: “…an entertaining, original, and psychologically […]
Tess Taylor’s Incredible Family Journey
Date: March 16, 2020
Tess Taylor has had an amazing journey of discovery these past few months. Her debut poetry collection, The Forage House, chronicles the exploration of her familial lineage and ties to Thomas […]
Kate Gale and Kim Dower on KUCI
Date: March 16, 2020
Kate Gale, our managing editor, and Kim Dower, author of the wonderful new collection AIR KISSING ON MARS, were interviewed this morning on KUCI for the segment “Writers on Writing […]
Suck on the Marrow wins an American Book Award!
Date: March 16, 2020
Camille Dungy’s Suck on the Marrow has won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation! For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the sixth significant honor this book […]
Ron Koertge Writes for Huffington Post!
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Ron Koertge wrote a post for Huffington Post about why he loves to write flash fiction: “Flash fiction doesn’t mind giving pleasure. It has a palpable level of affection for its […]
Jamey Hecht finalist for 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Date: March 16, 2020
Jamey Hecht’s new manuscript Fate vs. United States has been declared a finalist in the just-concluded 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. His 2009 Red Hen Press title, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty […]
Chopper! Chopper! listed as a 2014 Book of the Year by Latina Book Club
Date: March 16, 2020
The Latina Book Club recently announced its 2nd Annual Books of the Year List. All books chosen were either written by Latino authors, or contain noteworthy Latino characters. Verónica Reyes’ beautifully […]
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews on Kelly Barth’s vivid” memoir My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus”
Date: July 20, 2012
Kirkus Reviews says, "Barth recalls her youth and young adulthood with vivid detail and imagery. Though much of the book centers on her faith or life amid various faith traditions, […]
Rattle Reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Refreshing and Unexpected” But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise “
Date: July 20, 2012
Lori A. May for Rattle says of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise that, "And just as storms are beautiful from a distance, violent from within, and […]
Publishers Weekly Reviews David Maine’s An Age of Madness
Date: July 16, 2012
In a recent review, Publishers Weekly had some kind words for An Age of Madness, the new novel by acclaimed writer David Maine: "In the deftly sketched Regina, Maine has […]
The Modern-Day Hitchhiker loves Josh Pryor’s Fade to Black
Date: July 16, 2012
In his recent review on The Modern-Day Hitchhiker, Jason Aydelotte says that, "[Fade to Black] has got plenty of action, gore in all the right places without seeming too overblown, […]
Sugar House Review loves William Trowbridge’s Ship of Fool
Date: June 21, 2012
In a recent review in the Sugar House review, Liz Kay had this to say about Ship of Fool by William Trowbridge – "Throughout the book, we’re treated to Trowbridge’s […]
Santa Cruz Weekly highly rates Robert Sward’s New and Selected poems 1957-2011
Date: June 20, 2012
In the review entitled, 'Robert Sward releases his career collection,' Stephen Kessler acknowledges that Sward is Santa Cruz's "most nationally famous resident poet." To see the full review, please click
Rain Taxi on Modern Love and Other Tall Tales
Date: May 30, 2012
With prose as clean as Hemingway's and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales. But these tales are […]
The Boston Review on Lucid Suitcase
Date: May 30, 2012
Red Hen Press, a small nonprofit press in Los Angeles, continues to expand its poetry list with the publication of Diane Wald’s first full-length collection. (Wald’s chapbook publications include My […]
Praise for Interpretive Work
Date: May 30, 2012
"Bradfield [has a] keen eye for intertwining the narrative of the natural world and her human narrative. This is what is breathtaking about Interpretive Work… here are the poems of […]
The Hollins Critic on Glass Town
Date: May 29, 2012
This first full-length collection by Lisa Russ Spear is a mature work, wrought with honed skill and diligent truth telling. Glass Town appropriately begins with “Scenes from Childhood,” a cycle […]