Date: September 1, 2013
Dave Lavender from the Huntington Herald Dispatch takes a closer look at Song for Chance and John Van Kirk, who he decribes as having lived his life "as if he […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Bill Tipper from Barnes & Noble Reviews chats with Tess Taylor about creating poetry from fragmented family history. To read the full interview, click
Date: August 16, 2013
"The Rookie Report" from Late Night Library features a microinterview with John Van Kirk about his new novel Song for Chance. To read the full interview, click
Date: August 12, 2013
Check out Tess Taylor's interview with The Rookie Report, a Late Night Library spotlight on newly published authors. To read the interview click
Date: August 9, 2013
Peter Rejcek from the Antarctic Sun chats with Katharine Coles about her writing process, homesickness, and how the experience of living in Antarctica has changed the way that she writes […]
Date: August 5, 2013
Diana Babineau from The Common chats with Tess Taylor about her research process and the ancestry that she discusses in her new collection The Forage House. To read the full […]
Date: August 1, 2013
AROHO talks with Jessica Piazza about the challenges facing a creative woman today, and about the women who have influenced her own creativity. To read the full interview, click
Date: July 19, 2013
Jessica Piazza guest blogs on TNBBC's "Books and Booze" column where she pairs her poetry with some inspired cocktail concoctions. Read the full article
Date: July 17, 2013
Bonnie Miller Rubin from the Chicago Tribune chats with Mary Evelyn Greene about the difficulties of raising a child with Fetal Alcohol Sydrome. To read the interview, click
Date: July 15, 2013
Andrew Lam chats with Michelle Chen from CultureStrike about the "immigrant experience" and the process of building the characters in Birds of Paradise Lost.- To read the full interview, click
Date: February 3, 2021
One facet in poetry’s beauty is its urgency. Its collective need–which is beyond desire–to facilitate a process that weaves its spill and story. Urgency is one of the driving forces […]
Date: February 3, 2021
This could be called a book of odes, of praise songs, of quests punctuated with wry asides. Of poems saying not what the poet starts out to say, but what […]
Date: February 3, 2021
In Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s novel, The Likely World, Mel lets a drug called “cloud” spread over her mouth and wrap her in a state of forgetfulness. The story is told in a […]
Date: January 20, 2021
Plume has a number of talented editors, and given the extraordinary year the world faced, I thought asking them for some of their favorite books of 2020 made sense, as […]
Date: January 14, 2021
In Dariel Suarez’s debut novel, The Playwright’s House, to be released in June from Red Hen Press, the realities of living in Havana under a communist state are brought alive through […]
Date: January 13, 2021
When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of […]
Date: January 13, 2021
A book of eerie, unnatural-nature events pushing one lone and lonely lesbian, returned to small-town West Virginia from a law-enforcement career, to deal with Life. After many years’ effort to […]
Date: January 13, 2021
“Rift Zone” by Tess Taylor, is a powerful, moving collection of poetry giving voice to the voiceless, and to those who express theirs in a whisper, a whimper, a growl, […]
Date: January 13, 2021
I went on this journey, to be sure, knowing where I was headed. The historical part wasn’t that historical to my frame of reference; the queer part contained my frame […]
Date: January 4, 2021
“But the one thing I know for sure, this is the one life you have and you have to make it work.” Some novels make the meat and bones of […]
