TriQuarterly features William Archila’s New Poem WHAT DID CIPITIO SAY?
Date: July 31, 2024
News & Reviews
News:
TriQuarterly features William Archila’s New Poem WE WERE ALL BORN HALF-DEAD
Date: July 31, 2024
Zócalo features William Archila’s New Poem CITY OF
Date: July 31, 2024
Claire Fuller features Coco Picard’s THE HEALING CIRCLE
Date: July 31, 2024
Carlos Allende is featured on new episode of The History of Literature!
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 […]
Catch up on the KOUW Book Club read of Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION here!
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. […]
Author Event with AS THE SKY BEGINS TO CHANGE author Kim Stafford with poems and songs by Beth Wood at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR, Thursday July 18th
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, […]
E.P. Tuazon interviewed by INQUIRER for new novel A PROFESSIONAL LOLA
Date: July 11, 2024
Filipino American author EP Tuazon has released a short story collection, “A Professional Lola and Other Stories.” CONTRIBUTED LOS ANGELES — Filipino American EP Tuazon has released “A Professional Lola […]
KUOW’s book club is reading “Subduction” by Kristen Millares Young this month.
Date: July 9, 2024
KUOW’s book club will read “Subduction” by Kristen Millares Young this month. Young’s debut novel tells the story of a Latina anthropologist who seeks refuge in Neah Bay. But her […]
Epiphany Journal interviews Helen Benedict on her novel THE GOOD DEED
Date: July 8, 2024
Helen Benedict, a British-American professor at Columbia University, is the author of seven previous novels, six books of nonfiction, and a play. Her newest novel, The Good Deed (Red Hen […]
Reviews:
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 […]
Library Journal reviews Subduction
Date: June 3, 2020
VERDICT Gorgeously, toughly written, this book dares to be open-ended yet leaves readers with a satisfying sense of how life really unfolds. Cultural clash matters here, but personal differences and […]
The Seattle Times: Storytelling in Neah Bay forms the fault line in brilliant debut ‘Subduction’ from Seattle’s Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 3, 2020
In the gray autumn of Seattle, Claudia, an anthropology professor, is on edge. Her marriage is over after she found out her husband and sister were having an affair. She’s […]
The Washington Post: In ‘Subduction,’ an anthropologist observing a remote fishing village becomes part of the story
Date: June 2, 2020
What was it the anthropologist said? Claudia wonders as she types up her notes. “Oh, yes. ‘An observer is under the bed. A participant observer is in it.’ She doubted […]