Congrats to Eloise!
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
Amy Schutzer Opens Up to Shelf Unbound
Date: March 16, 2020
Amy Schutzer gave an interview to Shelf Unbound and talked about her creative writing process and influences for her new book, Spheres of Disturbance. “When I begin a novel, it is […]
Reviews:
The Dan O’Brien Project reviews Parnucklian for Chocolate
Date: April 25, 2013
Dan O'Brien applauds B.H. James' ability to write "a very American story" in Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "This story has the chaotic rumble of human beings in a jarring sequence of […]
Rain Taxi Review of Books features Steam Laundry
Date: April 25, 2013
Julie Swarstad Johnson praises Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry for it's poems that "soar with rich figurative language and inventive description".- "This unique debut collection presents not only images worth […]
Ernest Hilbert’s latest collection receives a fantastic review in B O D Y
Date: April 24, 2013
Joshua Mensch calls the sonnets of Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth "gorgeously constructed and brilliantly executed" and perhaps most importantly "great poetry." You'll want to read this […]
TAB reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: April 17, 2013
Iris Law from TAB praises Brynn Saito's "luminous collection", The Palace of Contemplating Departure.- "At times transparent and vulnerable, at others, sinuous with history and the breath of the supernatural, […]
Chico Sol praises Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: April 17, 2013
Lindajoy Fenley from Chico Sol applauds Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "As I read Lam's stories, I wished I could meet people he had created. Each one was a […]
Tottenville Review praises Steam Laundry
Date: April 10, 2013
Rebecca Kuensting from Tottenville Review applauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry.- "As captured by O’Donnell, Sarah has pluck and grace, and an undeniable stubborn streak that resonates, even as her […]
The Scrapper Poet reviews Burn This House
Date: March 28, 2013
Karen J. Weyant from The Scrapper Poet chooses Kelly Davio's Burn This House as her "March Poetry Pick".- "Indeed, if anything, these poems are questions — questions about both our […]
Shelf Awareness applauds Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: March 22, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- “The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space […]
Huffington Post praises Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: March 13, 2013
Nina Sankovitch from Huffington Post applauds Andrew Lam's "supple and daring imagination" in Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Lam crystallizes the tension of immigration—the pull between wanting to hold onto the […]
Alaska History finds Steam Laundry compelling
Date: March 4, 2013
Deborah Poore Homer of Alaska History lauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell.- "Her talent with metaphor and language, and her sense of poignant moments, leaves one pondering the immensity of a familys […]