Librarians recommend YELLOW by Amy Pence if you loved REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES!
Date: May 12, 2026
11 Books Like ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures,’ According to Librarians.
News & Reviews
News:
Necessary Fiction reviews Khanh Ha’s latest novel, THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER!
Date: May 6, 2026
After years of working on media stories about hotly contested political situations, I’ve learned that sometimes telling the truth about a situation will make people mad. As I read Khanh […]
Molly Fisk shares her writing process for WALKING WHEEL on Periodicity Journal!
Date: May 6, 2026
The ‘process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for various workshops and classes. This process note and […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK is listed as a bestseller in SoCal independent bookstores!
Date: May 5, 2026
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,April 26, 2026. This list is based […]
PBS SoCal features THE KITCHEN ACTIVIST author, Florencia Ramirez!
Date: May 5, 2026
Writer and climate change activist Florencia Ramirez takes us shopping for groceries and invites us into her home to share practical tips about how to reduce your kitchen’s carbon footprint […]
The Brooklyn Rail shares an excerpt from Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK!
Date: May 5, 2026
Susie Vogelman, a protagonist who initially sees herself as “a failed attempt at form,” finds definition through outrage. Her roommate has overdosed on Oxycontin, causing Susie to retreat to Los […]
April Ossmann reads select poems from her collection WE at the Vermont House of Representatives!
Date: April 29, 2026
April Ossmann reads poems NON-PARTISAN and STATE OF THE UNION AUBADE from her latest poetry collection WE at the Vermont House of Representatives.
San Francisco Chronicle features Luke Goebel as he discusses the success of his latest novel KILL!
Date: April 28, 2026
Goebel, a recovering addict with a long rap sheet of alcohol- and drug-related arrests, spent years living in cars, on street corners and in motels in San Francisco’s North Beach […]
Los Angeles Daily News interviews Luke Goebel to discuss his latest release, KILL DICK!
Date: April 28, 2026
Ten years and four drafts ago, Luke Goebel sat down to channel all the sorrow and anger he felt about the state of the nation, the corruption he believed seeped […]
Our Culture interviews Luke Goebel to discuss his most recent novel, KILL DICK!
Date: April 28, 2026
Luke Goebel doesn’t enter my Zoom call, “KILL DICK” does. It’s a sensible stone in the path for an all-out burst of promotion that has included graffiti in Los Angeles, […]
Reviews:
EcoLit Books Reviews Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!
Date: January 31, 2023
The end of the world is not for the faint of heart, and neither is Thea Prieto’s bold and beautiful novella about four humans pushed to the limits of climate […]
Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed in Good River Review!
Date: January 24, 2023
In his gripping new poetry collection Plainchant, Eamon Grennan weaves a revelatory narrative, rich with precise detail, layered symbolism, and evocative imagery. Plainchant is a powerful compilation of personal reflections. […]
Dennis Must’s MacLeish Sq. reviewed by Dactyl Review!
Date: January 24, 2023
Edward Said, writing about Beethoven’s late style, defined late style as that time wherein the artist freed from the expected cultural and historical restraints of form and content unleashes a […]
Brown Alumni Magazine reviews Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE!
Date: January 24, 2023
Thiel’s third full-length poetry collection, and her twelfth book, arrives bristling with navigable strangeness and open-ended questions. The 67 sometimes otherworldly poems here weave through biology, parenting, the pandemic, world […]
Asian Review of Books reviews FUTURE LIBRARY: CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WRITING, edited by Anjum Hasan and Sampurna Chattarji!
Date: January 3, 2023
A new anthology of Indian authors writing in, and translating into, English, Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing creates a new sense of contemporariness on the Indian literary scene. This arrangement distinguishes the […]
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Kirkus Starred Review!
Date: January 3, 2023
A moving and musical set of poetic works. Bell’s second collection of poems offers a portrait of motherhood, devastation, and hope. The author’s first collection of poems, Bright Stain (2019),was a finalist […]
Louder Than War reviews Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: January 3, 2023
Sometime Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich takes a detailed trip back in time, to catalogue the band’s journey from shoe-string budget experimentalists to internationally esteemed sound artists. Peter Ulrich […]
North of Oxford reviews David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: January 3, 2023
Mason is a poet defined by place, if it is Southeast Asia on the Pacific Rim or Northwest America, his poems breathe life of the people around him as well […]
Spill Magazine Recommends Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: December 13, 2022
Dead Can Dance formed in their native Australia in 1981. The core of the band was (and is) Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. When they relocated to England and settled […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu Reviewed on Patch!
Date: December 5, 2022
A refreshing book, I thought – a collection of short stories that this reviewer started from the beginning rather than picking and choosing which story to read next, based on […]