Date: April 22, 2024
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think titles are of utmost importance to the writer and the reader. For the writer, they […]
Date: April 22, 2024
Susan Rich’s masterful collection, Blue Atlas, (Red Hen Press, April 2, 2024) is a physical and emotional travelogue through a “land of deferred decisions.” In this collection, the reader is […]
Date: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024 — The Society of Midland Authors today announced its annual awards, honoring its choices for the best books by Midwest authors published in 2023. In each category, […]
Date: April 15, 2024
I was listening to NPR, watching my kids swim in the bay, their shining heads bobbing in the light-studded water when I heard the news about the tragic death of […]
Date: April 15, 2024
In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so […]
Date: April 15, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘Creating Life Out of Dead Things!’
Date: April 15, 2024
Join us for a mysterious, thrilling, and even downright terrifying Harvardwood Author Series event! Learn how to craft suspense and have your readers clutching their pearls with every page turn. […]
Date: April 10, 2024
“At heart, the novel is not only about the hardship of becoming a refugee, and the imbalance of power between the privileged and the destitute, it is about love.” In […]
Date: April 10, 2024
SUMMARY: Set in 2018 against the backdrop of an overcrowded, fetid refugee camp on the beautiful Greek island of Samos, The Good Deed follows the stories of four women living in […]
Date: April 10, 2024
It’s a tradition that began last year, and I hope we repeat every year: making sure we properly acknowledge National Poetry Month by celebrating the work of an amazing contemporary […]
Date: November 14, 2022
The title of your book Your Nostalgia is Killing Me, seems to be an ironic one. The protagonist’s nostalgia is seemingly running havoc on his own life. He can’t escape revisiting the past and […]
Date: November 9, 2022
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and her chosen home of Alaska, tender gravity is her debut collection of poetry. Its title is drawn […]
Date: November 9, 2022
Dead Can Dance have long been a deeply resonant, exploratory presence on the outskirts of alternative music. Never comfortably existing in one genre or another – no surprises there, given […]
Date: November 2, 2022
The American ghost, in Khalisa Rae’s narrative, is a chimera—a multi formed, multi-faceted reflection and mirror of society, of survival, and suspense, of waiting to see what the future will […]
Date: October 31, 2022
Poet, essayist, and librettist David Mason grew up in Washington State, worked for many years in Colorado (where he became the state’s poet laureate) and a couple of years ago […]
Date: October 20, 2022
Somewhere in the history of literature, the world decided that poetry was “serious.” But with I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriendas evidence, poet Ron Koertge (Sex World; Now Playing: Stoner & […]
Date: October 17, 2022
Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s debut story collection, captures the essences of surviving in a life set […]
Date: October 17, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is Carlos Allende’s Quill Prize-winning novel from Red Hen Press. Readers will embark on a riotous, ribald, and somehow still laughter-inducing ride, from a terrible first date […]
Date: October 3, 2022
“Hell,” wrote Percy Shelley in 1819, “is a city much like London.” A hundred and twenty years later Bertolt Brecht, who fled the Nazis for Santa Monica, volunteered a different […]
Date: September 28, 2022
The Healing Circle by Coco Picard is a lyrical novel—written in sketches and short chapters that feel like jabs—about dying, and much more, happening across past and present timelines, dipping in […]
