Date: August 19, 2024
As a promising young writer, Cheri Johnson won a series of big awards like the Bush Fellowship and the McKnight Fellowship, which gave her the funding to focus on finishing […]
Date: August 13, 2024
When I picture Washington, I see fog drifting through trees on mountains, muddy and mossy rainforests, flashy skyscrapers filled with tech workers, arid fields with giant windmills, winding forest roads […]
Date: July 31, 2024
Date: July 31, 2024
Date: July 31, 2024
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Date: July 31, 2024
Date: July 18, 2024
LitHub’s podcast, The History of Literature, features Carlos Allende, author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love. For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape […]
Date: July 16, 2024
This is KUOW’s book club, and we just read through the first half of Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel “Subduction.” I’m your club guide, Katie Campbell. Let’s get into it. […]
Date: July 11, 2024
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, […]
Date: November 9, 2021
“As an adoptee, one of the toughest things is the idea of shifting identities,” writes Jan Beatty in “American Bastard: A Memoir.”” “No one is who they say they are: […]
Date: November 2, 2021
Being an elder millennial (see: I refuse to use the term ‘geriatric’), I’ve come to accept that I no longer know any of the cool lingo that the kids these […]
Date: November 2, 2021
Any baby, let alone a bastard baby, is born a mystery, and babies don’t come with directions. But Jan Beatty’s iconoclastic memoir American Bastard does come with directions. Here is […]
Date: October 20, 2021
The strong, measured, and contemplative voice in Open the Dark, a debut collection of forty-two lyric poems, belongs to poet Marie Tozier (Inupiaq/Puerto Rican.) The book’s release in August 2020, at the […]
Date: October 20, 2021
Cai Emmons is an extraordinary wordsmith who’s created a two-book series on the magical powers of personal relationships and their interconnected relationships with Nature, and how individuals and groups have […]
Date: September 27, 2021
American’s fascination with the mystery and allure of an island that for years they couldn’t access has led them to mythologize Cuba’s history. Those myths of a land stuck in […]
Date: September 22, 2021
In Cai Emmons’ popular novel, WEATHER WOMAN, Bronwyn Artair drops out of her prestigious doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT to take a job as a television meteorologist in […]
Date: September 20, 2021
Peterson (Paper Crown) suffuses this enchanting if opaque collection with references to television and literature. Click here to read more
Date: September 13, 2021
At a writers’ gathering several years ago I had picked up a few basic details of the horrific, head-on, near-fatal automobile crash endured by Sebastian Matthews, his wife, and their […]
Date: September 8, 2021
Translated from French: The desperate quest of a Western couple to find their 4-year-old son, who disappeared in 1942 in the heart of the Indian archipelago of Andaman.
