Date: September 10, 2026
Huge congratulations to Jason Schneiderman on this prestigious honor, alongside fellow 2026 Pegasus Awards recipients Robert Pinsky, Luis J. Rodriguez, Nikki Grimes, and Meg Day!
Date: September 10, 2026
Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is releasing a collection of poems called The Cardinals on September 1st, 2026, along with an accompanying single, “Days of Letting Go,” out September 4th, […]
Date: September 8, 2026
Amy Speace’s senior university lecture was a discussion on whether Bob Dylan is a poet or a songwriter. Now, Speace is living that dichotomy, as she releases a book of […]
Date: September 3, 2026
Tara: So Marivi, I would love to hear your Meet Cue for Taxi Dancer. When, where, and how did inspiration first strike? Marivi: When we first moved to San Diego in 2001, […]
Date: September 1, 2026
BRIDE She wakes and dresses quickly in the dark,buttoning her bodice one-handed,her other palm smoothing back the sheetagainst its linen companion, a pillowcaseetched around with her smallest stitches,both newly released […]
Date: August 18, 2026
Young spoke with Havana Times about the silences that shaped her family, the maternal power she discovered through the ancient goddess Cybele, the politics of writing about the female body, and the […]
Date: August 13, 2026
Date: August 8,2026 In July, 2026, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alan Chazaro about his latest poetry collection, These Spaceships Weren’t Built for Us. Our conversation took us from the […]
Date: August 11, 2026
Little made sense, on paper, about a folk singer in her 50s with a young child and a touring lifestyle pivoting to chase an MFA—and specifically to study a form […]
Date: August 4, 2026
At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? […]
Date: August 3, 2026
Huge congratulations to Adela Najarro on this prestigious win, alongside other honorees such as Stephen Colbert and Karen Tei Yamashita!
Date: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
Date: May 3, 2021
Deborah A. Lott’s Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir is the story of a young woman’s coming of age and how she separates her own identity from her family’s. She […]
