@belletrist features Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: December 3, 2024
Date: December 3, 2024
Date: December 3, 2024
THE FIRST BOOK: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The Author: Esinam Bediako | Instagram: @esi_the_lurker The Book: Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024) The Elevator Pitch: Can a 24-year-old Ghanaian American woman outrun a breakup, […]
Date: November 26, 2024
Esinam Bediako is remarkably self-assured in this debut novel; it’s the kind of funny, compassionate book you want your friends to read so you can talk about it with someone […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Didi Jackson: On Love Stories, Migraines, Being Ever-Present on the Page, and Her Poetry Collection, ‘My Infinity’ Nov 19 Written By Brittany Ackerman Four months postpartum, I stood inside the home […]
Date: November 19, 2024
“In the beautifully rendered book of poems, My Infinity by Didi Jackson, the speaker’s voice is meditative, pensive, and warm. Tonally, these poems represent that time of day which is […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and […]
Date: November 19, 2024
For our fifth episode of S3 of There She Goes, we’re proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adriana is […]
Date: November 14, 2024
When Esinam Bediako submitted the manuscript for her debut novel, “Blood on the Brain,” for consideration for the Ann Petry Award, she didn’t think she’d be in the running for the […]
Date: November 14, 2024
Wa-zha’-zhe, name of the Osage tribe . . . who came from the stars.—“The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis LaFlesche” […]
Date: November 5, 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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Date: April 17, 2013
Lindajoy Fenley from Chico Sol applauds Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "As I read Lam's stories, I wished I could meet people he had created. Each one was a […]
Date: April 10, 2013
Rebecca Kuensting from Tottenville Review applauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry.- "As captured by O’Donnell, Sarah has pluck and grace, and an undeniable stubborn streak that resonates, even as her […]
Date: March 28, 2013
Karen J. Weyant from The Scrapper Poet chooses Kelly Davio's Burn This House as her "March Poetry Pick".- "Indeed, if anything, these poems are questions — questions about both our […]
Date: March 22, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- “The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space […]
Date: March 13, 2013
Nina Sankovitch from Huffington Post applauds Andrew Lam's "supple and daring imagination" in Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Lam crystallizes the tension of immigration—the pull between wanting to hold onto the […]
Date: March 4, 2013
Deborah Poore Homer of Alaska History lauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell.- "Her talent with metaphor and language, and her sense of poignant moments, leaves one pondering the immensity of a familys […]