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:
Synchronized Chaos is impressed with All of You on the Good Earth
Date: May 17, 2013
Christopher Bernard from Synchronized Chaos says that the poems found in Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth are "some of the most elegant poems in American literature […]
Donna Miscolta applauds Burn This House
Date: May 9, 2013
Donna Miscolta calls Kelly Davio's Burn This House "blisteringly good poetry".- "In Burn this House (Red Hen Press), Kelly Davio explores relationships—how they falter or erode, how time distorts the […]
Shelf Awareness features Burn This House
Date: May 9, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Burn This House by Kelly Davio.- "Kelly Davio's debut poetry collection, Burn This House, smolders with doubt and misdirection. Cosmic yet controlled, her poetry […]
Lambda Literary Review loves A Wild Surmise
Date: May 1, 2013
ArielleYarwood from Lambda Literary Review calls Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings "a book that won’t easily be shaken from your mind."- "How to […]
The Rumpus reviews Burn This House
Date: May 1, 2013
Michelle Salcido from The Rumpus praises Kelly Davio's Burn This House.- "Davio explores the erosion of faith, time, memory, and love with clear speakers who are unafraid to expose doubts […]
Lambda Literary applauds Speaking Wiri Wiri
Date: April 25, 2013
Charlie Bondhus from Lambda Literary praises Dan Vera's use of language in Speaking Wiri Wiri.- "…there is no gibberish to be found in Vera’s Letras Latinas-winning poetry collection. Rather, there […]
The Dan O’Brien Project reviews Parnucklian for Chocolate
Date: April 25, 2013
Dan O'Brien applauds B.H. James' ability to write "a very American story" in Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "This story has the chaotic rumble of human beings in a jarring sequence of […]
Rain Taxi Review of Books features Steam Laundry
Date: April 25, 2013
Julie Swarstad Johnson praises Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry for it's poems that "soar with rich figurative language and inventive description".- "This unique debut collection presents not only images worth […]
Ernest Hilbert’s latest collection receives a fantastic review in B O D Y
Date: April 24, 2013
Joshua Mensch calls the sonnets of Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth "gorgeously constructed and brilliantly executed" and perhaps most importantly "great poetry." You'll want to read this […]
TAB reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: April 17, 2013
Iris Law from TAB praises Brynn Saito's "luminous collection", The Palace of Contemplating Departure.- "At times transparent and vulnerable, at others, sinuous with history and the breath of the supernatural, […]