John Domini Reviews
Date: March 16, 2020
John Domini, a Red Hen Press author, publishes many book reviews. One published review, found in Bookforum, has been selected by the National Book Critics Circle as a feature for their blog and […]
News & Reviews
News:
Ludlow named Best New Book of Poetry 2007 by Contemporary Poetry Review
Date: March 16, 2020
Best Book of Contemporary Poetry: Ludlow by David Mason (Red Hen Press). The book-length poem has been a very risky venture in the last century. Few efforts can be counted as successes […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS included in Buzzfeeds “15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season”!
Date: January 13, 2020
Here are 15 recent and upcoming books from small presses that span everything from fantasy and crime fiction to memoir and literary short stories.
The Seattle Review announces that PIGS author Johanna Stoberock wins LaSalle Storyteller Award!
Date: December 3, 2019
Artist Trust has announced that Walla Walla author Johanna Stoberock is this year’s recipient of the LaSalle Storyteller Award. The LaSalle Award, which gives $10,000 to a Washington state storyteller with no […]
Union Bulletin shares that PIGS author Johanna Stoberock is the 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient!
Date: December 2, 2019
Artist Trust today named Whitman College Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and General Studies Johanna Stoberock as its 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient. The 2019 award recognizes an outstanding literary artist working in […]
Kirkus Reviews reports on Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS being on the Tournament of Books Longlist!
Date: November 22, 2019
The Morning News has unveiled the longlist for their 2020 Tournament of Books, which is almost certainly the only literary competition in the country where the winner receives livestock as a prize. Sixty-two […]
The Wesleyan Connection includes PIGS author Johanna Stoberock in their “You Just Haveto Read This…” list!
Date: November 18, 2019
In the sixth of this continuing series, Sara McCrea ’21, a College of Letters major from Boulder, Colo., reviews alumni books and offers a selection for those in search of knowledge, insight, […]
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock makes the 2020 Tournament of Books Long List!
Date: November 12, 2019
The most excellent, Rooster-worthy books of 2019. Look for our shortlist of competitors next month for the 2020 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
New Books Network interviews Johanna Stoberock, author of PIGS!
Date: October 31, 2019
In her new novel Pigs (Red Hen Press, 2019), Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms […]
Campaign for the American Reader features PIGS by Johanna Stoberock!
Date: October 15, 2019
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd […]
Reviews:
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT reviewed in the Australian Book Review!
Date: October 31, 2022
Poet, essayist, and librettist David Mason grew up in Washington State, worked for many years in Colorado (where he became the state’s poet laureate) and a couple of years ago […]
Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND on Shelf Awareness’ Best Book List!
Date: October 20, 2022
Somewhere in the history of literature, the world decided that poetry was “serious.” But with I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriendas evidence, poet Ron Koertge (Sex World; Now Playing: Stoner & […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME Featured in Shelf Unbound
Date: October 17, 2022
Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s debut story collection, captures the essences of surviving in a life set […]
Independent Book Review Reviews COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE by Carlos Allende!
Date: October 17, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is Carlos Allende’s Quill Prize-winning novel from Red Hen Press. Readers will embark on a riotous, ribald, and somehow still laughter-inducing ride, from a terrible first date […]
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in latest edition of The New York Review of Books
Date: October 3, 2022
“Hell,” wrote Percy Shelley in 1819, “is a city much like London.” A hundred and twenty years later Bertolt Brecht, who fled the Nazis for Santa Monica, volunteered a different […]
Coco Picard’s Healing Circle featured in Fiction Roundup by LitReactor
Date: September 28, 2022
The Healing Circle by Coco Picard is a lyrical novel—written in sketches and short chapters that feel like jabs—about dying, and much more, happening across past and present timelines, dipping in […]
Dennis Must’s MACLEISH SQ. reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: September 26, 2022
“The novel’s surreal atmosphere is grounded by mundane details, as of the hot tea that John offers Eli upon his arrival, and the rabbit’s foot charm dangling from the rearview […]
LARB Reviews Coco Picard’s THE HEALING CIRCLE
Date: September 17, 2022
HOPE, WHEN HELD past the point of reason, is liable to transform into a certain kind of absurdity. Over the course of The Healing Circle — the latest novel from writer, artist, […]
Ellen Meeropol’s THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT reviewed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: September 12, 2022
Northampton author Ellen Meeropol used her first four novels to explore how a range of social and political issues, from the rise of the U.S. security state in the aftermath […]
A Review of Refugee by Pamela Uschuk in the North American Review
Date: September 12, 2022
“Since all around us refugees seem to be fleeing from something, one must ask from what they themselves flee—and that it’s hard to imagine there is anywhere left one can go […]