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: June 30, 2020
In the South Asian archipelago known as the Andaman Islands, aboriginal tribes thrived for 60,000 years before the onset of British colonialism nearly wiped them out. Best selling novelist Aimee […]
Date: June 30, 2020
Aimee Liu’s fourth novel, Glorious Boy — a family drama set against the backdrop of World War II and the rumblings of Indian independence from British colonialist rule — is big, ambitious, […]
Date: June 30, 2020
This is a powerful story of political activism, family betrayal, allegiance and love. When two sisters get arrested during a Vietnam War protest in 1968, they must decide where their […]
Date: June 30, 2020
Many readers of this review may or may not be aware of the rasa theory, but it is maintained that classic works of literature created within the boundaries of what is today […]
Date: June 26, 2020
I’ve never lived in New York City, though I’ve always loved it from afar. Visits to friends in Brooklyn, a few work jaunts into Manhattan, a research trip one summer […]
Date: June 5, 2020
Reading poet Elizabeth Bradfield’s latest collection, Toward Antarctica: An Exploration, may not be as dramatic as actually visiting the continent, but it will likely be as close as many of us will get. Thanks […]
Date: June 4, 2020
Mia Heavener, now living in Anchorage, grew up fishing in Bristol Bay, where she absorbed stories her mother and other women told between tides and over tea. Her lovely debut […]
Date: June 4, 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 […]
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
