Date: October 11, 2019
Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novels Pigs and City of Ghosts. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Better: Culture & Lit, The Wilson Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Front Porch, and the 2014 Best […]
Date: October 7, 2019
The Coil dishes the best new books to read this month. Fiction, memoir, history, crime, politics, & poetry for our tough times.
Date: October 3, 2019
The pigs are beautiful, but fierce, with sharp teeth and insatiable appetites, and they eat anything. When a boy washes ashore in a barrel, the children must decide what to […]
Date: September 10, 2019
The days of lounging lazily in the sun, SPF slathered generously all over your skin as you dive into a good book, might be ending, but that means we get […]
Date: April 15, 2019
WHEN THE SH*T HITS THE FAN: A CONVERSATION WITH PERCIVAL EVERETT BY DOUGLAS MANUEL April 15th, 2019 During finals week, right before the semester was over, I was given the opportunity […]
Date: October 1, 2018
Meryl Natchez conducts a
Date: September 28, 2018
Cai Emmons, Author of Weather Woman, and tammy lynne stoner, Author of Sugar Land, Discuss Their Latest Books for Red Hen Press Full
Date: September 27, 2018
Feminist Wednesday features Sarah Cannon! Meet Sarah Cannon as she talks about writing, feminism, burnout, and giving advices to budding writers. Full interview
Date: September 26, 2018
Ron Koertge pens a lovely poem to the city of South Pasadena! Read the poem, "Ode to South Pasadena"
Date: July 19, 2018
Maurya Simon just accepted a Visiting Artists Residency at the American Academy in Rome! This month-long November residency serves as a great opportunity for Maurya and her writing. Congrats Maurya!
Date: March 3, 2026
Each line is a steady and reassuring four beats in length, filled with words that help move the story along.
Date: February 18, 2026
Full review to come March 1! “The characters’ journeys are candid and vulnerable, rendering a pertinent, rich portrait of displaced lives reshaped by conflict and its enduring consequences.” —Booklist
Date: February 11, 2026
Mysticism and science merge in the story of a Louisiana artist. Pence tells her story in language on the border between poetic and precious.
Date: February 3, 2026
This week’s Thirst Quencher doesn’t tiptoe, it kicks the door in. Kill Dick by Luke Goebel is dark, unsettling, and unexpectedly funny, driven by characters and ideas that refuse to […]
Date: February 3, 2026
Abi Pollokoff’s debut poetry collection night myths • • before the body, released this year from Red Hen Press with much advanced praise, is so deft in execution, so consistent […]
Date: February 3, 2026
The daughter of a pharmaceutical executive gets ensnared in criminal mischief in this ambitious blend of social satire and sunshine noir from Goebel (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours). […]
Date: January 27, 2026
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE (2026) completes her Iraq war trilogy, that began with SAND QUEEN (2011) and was followed by WOLF SEASON (2017). But the new book is actually […]
Date: January 27, 2026
“…Shot through with the sort of pseudo-profundity endemic to youthful privilege, Susie’s rambling, terminally jaundiced narrative paints a darkly surreal Lynch- and Kubrick-inspired portrait of LA.”
Date: January 21, 2026
Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel Kill Dick parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of […]
Date: January 20, 2026
How does one build an identity? It’s an ongoing venture of discerning and refining, discarding narratives as much as creating them. For a poet, especially one who writes autobiographically, that […]
