Date: April 13, 2026
Andrew Lam fled Vietnam at the age of 11 in 1975, seeking refuge in the Bay Area of California, and now he stopped by Suffolk to share his perspective through […]
Date: April 13, 2026
STORIES FROM THE EDGE of the Sea (2025), Andrew Lam’s newest collection of short stories, assembles the raw experiences of the Vietnamese diaspora into a beautiful confection. Experimental at times but […]
Date: April 8, 2026
Ten years in the making, “Kill Dick” takes a big swing at the great American novel in a time when both taking big swings and the idea of the great […]
Date: April 8, 2026
Writer Luke Goebel has been leaving his mark across Los Angeles with a series of spray-painted ‘Kill Dick’ stencil designs on sidewalks throughout the city. Goebel, who recently drove down […]
Date: April 7, 2026
After experiencing firsthand the devastation of opioids, Luke Goebel says he wrote his new novel as a form of “direct action against the major dicks that kill us all.” Writing […]
Date: April 6, 2026
In Brentwood, college dropout Susie sinks into lethargy, surrounded by her family’s riches, aided by a pill habit. But her life of leisure and luxury comes to a fast halt […]
Date: April 6, 2026
A teenage addict and an ex-professor running a rehab scam find common ground in Luke Goebel’s dark and satirical literary thriller Kill Dick, out on 14 April. Susie Vogelman is […]
Date: April 6, 2026
Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick, Luke Goebel’s debut. This unhinged work of bicoastal art world satire imagines Sackler-family revenge from the vantage of an NYU […]
Date: April 2, 2026
Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early […]
Date: March 31, 2026
Author Amy Pence shares her “silver linings playbook” to publishing past a certain age and how being a late-bloomer can be a plus.
Date: July 7, 2021
There is a jagged urgency to award-winning and CantoMundo Fellow Zamor’s sixth book. The opening section, “At the Hand of Other,” consists of 30 one-stanza poems that each lean toward memory and immediacy while the poet […]
Date: July 7, 2021
A Camera Obscura stands at the crossroads of many such conversations: one could talk about the close, careful pacing of Mr. Marcum’s prose, a storytelling manner that often feels akin to […]
Date: July 7, 2021
THE TITLE of Judy Grahn’s sixteenth book beckons readers into a world in which all living species share a net of consciousness, a mind as distinct from the brain as […]
Date: June 23, 2021
In Martha Cooley’s novel Buy Me Love, a woman’s lottery win reveals her complicated relationships with money, family, and art. Read the rest of the review here!
Date: June 17, 2021
In A Camera Obscura, Carl Marcum invites us into the skies with a collection wound around the technical language of astronomy and lived experience on Earth. A poem in sections, “The […]
Date: June 14, 2021
“Taut and propulsive.” – The Boston Globe, review of The Playwright’s House. Click here to read more!
Date: June 14, 2021
As we continue to live our days through the latest chapter in our ever-unfolding, shared pandemic, and emerge from the darker months toward the light of the summer, two new […]
Date: June 14, 2021
David Campos’s second collection, American Quasar, follows a lonely speaker’s dreams, meditations, and prayers to understand life. Campos juxtaposes inhumanity in the modern United States with inhumanity in the nuclear […]
Date: June 10, 2021
After a recent conversation with Kim Stafford, Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, an idea coalesced for me, that the great energy swap—the invisible exchange between sentient creatures that either fuels or depletes […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Set in Havana, Cuba, The Playwright’s House is an expansive yet intimate novel about a young lawyer Serguey and his family when their father Felipe, a notable theater director, is detained by […]
