Rebecca O’Conner’s LIFT featured in Heyday Anthology
Date: March 16, 2020
The fall 2009 Heyday Anthology features an excerpt from Rebecca O’Conner’s, LIFT.
News & Reviews
News:
Alphabet Conspiracy featured on The Rumpus
Date: March 16, 2020
Rita Mae Reese’s new book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, was reviewed on The Rumpus: “But at their best, they speak in deceptively straightforward, accessible language, without aiming to impart lessons to the […]
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:
Alibi Praises Steve Basset’s Golden Ghetto
Date: December 13, 2013
Lisa Barrow from Alibi calls Steve Basset's style in Golden Ghetto: How the Americans & French Fell In & Out of Love During the Cold War "enthusiastic." "Bassetts old-school journalistic […]
Verónica Reyes’s Chopper! Chopper! Named One of the Best LGBT Books of 2013
Date: December 12, 2013
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, author of Amorcito Maricón names Verónica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives in his top three favorite LGBT books of 2013. "Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from […]
LitReactor absolutely loves The Ogre’s Wife
Date: October 30, 2013
Brian McGackin from LitReactor calls Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife "the book that's going to get you back into poetry." "Koertge isn't trying to be smart; he is smart. He […]
LitBridge reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: October 30, 2013
LitBridge's Analicia Sotelo discusses the very "personal" feel of the poems of Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure. "Saito writes about departure with a meditative restlessness that asks if […]
Verse Wisconsin features Room Service
Date: October 30, 2013
Morgan Harlow from Verse Wisconsin discusses the strengths of Ron Carlson's Room Service. "Ron Carlsons Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks…is genuinely engaging….Throughout this collection, the key to humor […]
hazel & wren praises A Wild Surmise
Date: October 11, 2013
Wren from hazel & wren loves Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings. "Regardless of the subject, all of her poems drip with wisdom and […]
NewPages reviews Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: October 10, 2013
Michael Caylo-Baradi from NewPages has much to say about Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost. "Lam's single story, in this collection, is the immigrant story; the pursuit of the American […]
Cleveland Plain-Dealer’s take on The Forage House
Date: October 10, 2013
Dave Lucas from Cleveland Plain-Dealer calls Tess Taylor's The Forage House a "haunting first book." "Taylor's archaeological eye is also her most astonishing poetic gift: to render what we call […]
NewPages loves A Wild Surmise
Date: October 9, 2013
Emily May Anderson from NewPages promises that Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise is "well worth adding to this falls reading list." "Whether a reader is already familiar with Healys […]
SusieBookworm Blog discusses Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: October 9, 2013
SusieBookworm talks Birds of Paradise Lost in her recent blog post. "Lam is certainly able to effectively condense all he wants said into a relatively brief amount of space…There are […]