KUCI- Writers on Writing
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
Maurya Simon’s Voetica Page: Poetry Spoken
Date: March 16, 2020
Karen Shoemaker’s The Meaning of Names” is on the recommended reading list for The Humanities Nebraska Governor’s Lecture 2015!”
Date: March 16, 2020
From Karen’s Facebook post: Check this out: On October 1 at the Holland Center in Omaha, Humanities Nebraska hosts British scholar David Reynolds, who will speak on “World War One: […]
Silverstein & Me featured in Playboy
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen Interviewed by Edward Byrne
Date: March 16, 2020
Dop Dominates
Date: March 16, 2020
Gary Dop's first poetry collection, Father, Child, Water, has only been out for two months and is already breaking ground in the literary world. In a feat virtually unheard of […]
Karren Gettert Shoemaker’s The Meaning of Names is Omaha Public Library’s 2014 Omaha Reads selection!
Date: March 16, 2020
Omaha Public Library recently announced that Karen Gettert Shoemaker's new novel The Meaning of Names is the 2014 Omaha Reads Selection! Each year, Omaha Public Library encourages the community to […]
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Featured on The Drunken Odyssey
Date: March 16, 2020
Lillian-Yvonne, author of
Cerise Press talks with Susan Thomas
Date: March 16, 2020
Date Change for Red Hen Awards
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviews:
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Adroit Journal: Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]
Empty Mirror: Hope Amidst Uncertainty: Subduction by Kristen Millares Young, reviewed by Jessica Gigot
Date: June 3, 2020
What happens when the world as you know it changes course? When your seemingly rock-solid life suddenly becomes thin and porous? Such is the case for Claudia, a Latinx anthropologist based […]
Library Journal reviews Subduction
Date: June 3, 2020
VERDICT Gorgeously, toughly written, this book dares to be open-ended yet leaves readers with a satisfying sense of how life really unfolds. Cultural clash matters here, but personal differences and […]
The Seattle Times: Storytelling in Neah Bay forms the fault line in brilliant debut ‘Subduction’ from Seattle’s Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 3, 2020
In the gray autumn of Seattle, Claudia, an anthropology professor, is on edge. Her marriage is over after she found out her husband and sister were having an affair. She’s […]