On Hurricane Island is an ABA Winter Institute 2015 Book to Watch For!
Date: February 2, 2015
News & Reviews
News:
Pete Fromm won another Pacific Northwest Book Award!
Date: January 7, 2015
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association recently announced the winners of the 2015 Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and we are thrilled to announce that, for the fifth time, Pete Fromm is […]
Indian Country Today Interviews Elissa Washuta!
Date: December 2, 2014
Adrian Jawort of Indian Country Today recently interviewed Elissa Washuta about her debut memoir, My Body is a Book of Rules. When asked about her writing process, Elissa said, "I […]
Neon Tommy Goes to Red Hen’s 20th Anniversary Champagne Luncheon
Date: November 19, 2014
In a recent article, Sara Newman, Deputy Editor for Neon Tommy, recounts her wonderful experience at Red Hen's 20th Anniversary Champagne Luncheon this past Sunday. She believes that this event […]
New Pages Reviews Ron Carlson’s The Blue Box
Date: November 3, 2014
Audrey Quinn from New Pages gave a wonderful review of Ron Carlson's book, The Blue Box. She praises the author for his skill of making flash fiction seem effortless and […]
Geosi Reads interviews William Trowbridge!
Date: October 29, 2014
Geosi Gyasi spoke with author William Trowbridge about his latest book, Put This On, Please, poetry's place in the modern world, and his writing process: "I think the most interesting […]
Pasadena Weekly interviews Elissa Washuta about My Body is a Book of Rules!
Date: October 23, 2014
Carla Sameh and Christina Babock sit down with Elissa Washuta to discuss My Body is a Book of Rules, which they call "transformative": "She excavates these categories in a unique […]
Red Hen and Pete Fromm featured on Poets & Writers!
Date: October 17, 2014
Recently, Poets & Writers published an article featuring eleven small-press authors and their publishers, and we were featured! The article includes insight from Kate Gale, our Managing Editor, and Pete […]
Kate Gale talks cults on NHPR
Date: October 17, 2014
Recently, Kate Gale sat down with NHPR's Word of Mouth segment to share her story of growing up on High View Church Farm, a group she considered "cult-like." This is […]
Pete Fromm Discusses If Not For This on Montana Public Radio (MTPR)
Date: October 9, 2014
Pete Fromm and Cherie Newman discussed Pete's latest novel, If Not For This, on MTPR this week. Pete reads and explains an excerpt from his book, and gives the listeners […]
Reviews:
Shelf Awareness: Moon Jar review
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Adroit Journal: Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]
Empty Mirror: Hope Amidst Uncertainty: Subduction by Kristen Millares Young, reviewed by Jessica Gigot
Date: June 3, 2020
What happens when the world as you know it changes course? When your seemingly rock-solid life suddenly becomes thin and porous? Such is the case for Claudia, a Latinx anthropologist based […]