The Page 69 Test features Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 10, 2024
Akoto applied the Page 69 Test to his debut novel, Blindspot in America, and reported the following:
News & Reviews
News:
Hasty Book List features Elom K. Akoto’s BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
Blindspot in America gives a provocative depiction of some of the realities immigrants face in the United States—racism and discrimination—but also their hopes and faith in a country that promises […]
Deborah Kalb interviews Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
Q: What inspired you to write Blindspot in America, and how did you create your character Kamao? A: I wanted to write a story that explores different immigrants’ viewpoints and experiences […]
A Mighty Blaze features Elom K. Akoto’s BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
A Mighty Blaze (Online) included the book in their October 1st roundup for New Release Tuesday!
Crimespree Magazine features Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
Five Authors Who Influenced me as a Reader and as a Writer by Elom K. Akoto | Oct 1, 2024 | Features, Five Things My teenage years were characterized by three activities: school, soccer, and reading. […]
Authors Answer interviews Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
Favorite non-reading activity? Besides writing, I like watching and playing soccer. It’s a popular game in my home country of Togo (West Africa), and I’ve been playing it since I […]
Writer’s Digest spotlights Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
In this interview, Elom discusses how his experiences as an immigrant helped inspire his new political thriller, Blindspot in America, what he learned in the process of publishing the novel, and […]
Reader’s Entertainment Magazine interviews Elom Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: October 8, 2024
Today, we are welcoming author Elom Akoto to the blog. First, tell our readers a bit about yourself. Where you’re from, where you live? Is writing your full-time job? I’m […]
Rachel León from Chicago Review of Books interviews Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: October 1, 2024
Readers often talk about liking a novel (or not) because they connected to the protagonist (or didn’t). Reasons, sometimes inexplicable, for connecting—or not—vary from one reader to the next. That […]
The Root interviews Aliah Wright, author of NOW YOU OWE ME
Date: September 23, 2024
Black Writer On How To Write An Alluring Villain and a Dynamic Black, Female Hero Aliah Wright details how to get started writing a book and creating twin serial killers […]
Reviews:
Foreword reviews ANOTHER NORTH by Jennifer Brice
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]
Eve Hutcherson reviews Gaylord Brewer’s BEFORE THE STORM TAKES IT AWAY for Chapter 16!
Date: May 22, 2024
Prolific Murfreesboro poet Gaylord Brewer turns his hand to short nonfiction in Before the Storm Takes It Away, his latest from Red Hen Press. While the structure of the 125 pieces […]
ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson reviewed by Diane Josefowicz on West Trade Review!
Date: May 21, 2024
Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing […]
Light Poetry Magazine features review of William Trowbridge’s CALL ME FOOL!
Date: May 15, 2024
William Trowbridge has stopped by the pages of Light before in the guise of Oldguy (Reviews, Summer/Fall 2020). Now he’s back with a collection recounting the exploits of a classic persona, The Fool, traced […]
LA Times recommends Jennifer Brice’s ANOTHER NORTH among “20 new books you need to read this summer”!
Date: May 15, 2024
Brice previously chronicled her Alaska youth in “Unlearning to Fly.” In “Another North,” she returns to Fairbanks as a divorced woman longing for a sense of home. The new collection […]
Publishers Weekly features review of Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY!
Date: May 15, 2024
Everett’s formally virtuosic latest collection (after The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke) interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic […]
Randall Freisinger reviews William Trowbridge’s CALL ME FOOL for The Birmingham Poetry Review!
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in the Spring, 2024 issue, no. 51, pp. 223-7. To Move Wild Laughter Near the end Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, the heroine, Rosaline, tells her suitor […]
William Trowbridge’s CALL ME FOOL reviewed by Richard Simpson for Tar River Poetry!
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in vol. 63, no. 1, fall, 2023, pp. 54-6. FOOLISH VIRTUOSITY William Trowbridge. Call Me Fool. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2022. $17.95, paper. William Trowbridge […]
Poetry Foundation Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: May 13, 2024
Blue Atlas by Susan Rich takes its title from the Blue Atlas Cedar found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. As the book’s epigraph explains: “It is the hardiest species and […]
Pioneer Press Celebrates Minnesota Authors, Naming ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson on Their List
Date: May 13, 2024
Pioneer Press has names ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson as one of their three fiction works from Minnesota authors. The full review is in the link below!