TriQuarterly features William Archila’s New Poem WE WERE ALL BORN HALF-DEAD
Date: July 31, 2024
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
Constant Wonder Podcast speaks to David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS
Date: June 27, 2024
Listen to the new Constant Wonder podcast episode featuring David Mas Masumoto! Masumoto talks about his new memoir, SECRET HARVESTS: A HIDDEN STORY OF SEPARATION AND RESILIENCE ON A FAMILY […]
Reviews:
Under Nushagak Bluff and the shadow of pandemic in Alaska literature: Review of Mia C. Heavener’s debut novel
Date: September 3, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir
Date: August 31, 2020
Reading Deborah Lott’s memoir of her dysfunctional upbringing feels like the literary equivalent of rubbernecking: her childhood was a series of trainwrecks, but somehow you can’t stop turning around to watch. […]
High Skies
Date: August 31, 2020
Daugherty’s engrossing latest (after the collection American Originals) focuses on the small community of Midland, Tex., in the late 1950s as it reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school […]
Publishers Weekly Review: Unseen City by Amy Shearn
Date: August 19, 2020
Shearn’s luminous latest (after The Mermaid from Brooklyn) follows a self-avowed librarian spinster; a man researching the history of his father’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn, home; and the ghost of an orphaned […]
A Point of Change
Date: August 17, 2020
Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy gives readers a portrait of a young mother and fledgling anthropologist caught in a remote outpost in the midst of World War Two. Two of Liu’s three previous […]
EL GRUÑIDO QUIETO DE LOS CERDOS: LA ALEGORÍA POSMODERNA DE JOHANNA STOBEROCK. ELIDIO LA TORRE LAGARES
Date: August 10, 2020
En la novela Cerdos, de Johanna Stoberock, hay una isla innombrada en algún mar desconocido, cuatro niños se dan a la tarea de recoger la basura que llega a la orilla […]
Each Story is a Kaleidoscope in ‘Boy Oh Boy’
Date: August 3, 2020
The stories in Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss are playful, surreal, sometimes dark, and always magical. This wonderful collection of inventive queer fabulist stories and flash fictions won the 2018 Grace […]
Past as Place in Subduction
Date: July 30, 2020
In Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction, one of the main characters, Peter, a member of the Makah tribe, talks about the past as a physical place that can hold you. In the […]
Human Touch: Sex & Taipei City by Yu-Han Chao
Date: July 29, 2020
The Taipei of Yu-Han Chao’s debut story collection Sex & Taipei City both bustles and glistens. It’s a city of industry and aspiration—skyscrapers and metro trains, prep schools and department stores. Yet […]
Review: Open the Dark by Marie Tozier
Date: July 27, 2020
Marie Tozier’s new book, Open the Dark, is a lyrical guide to the life in Northwest Alaska experienced by the Iñupiaq poet and her family. It touches on themes that can be […]