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:
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Shelf Awareness reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Library Journal reviews Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Chicago Review of Books reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY features Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY in THE MUST LIST!
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
PASADENA STAR-NEWS praises Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Kirkus reviews Esinam Bediako’s BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY in the Second Acts column for the Adroit Journal!
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
KUOW Book Club reviews Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]
BookMarks reviews Jim Tilley’s RIPPLES IN THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Date: July 29, 2024
What a great gift as Tilley proved to be a fine poet and a discerning observer of our world. Educated as a physicist with a PhD from Harvard and having […]