Date: March 19, 2024
Growing up, Mas Masumoto was vaguely aware that he had an aunt who’d been separated from the family in the 1940s. Her name was Shizuko Sugimoto, and she had an […]
Date: March 19, 2024
In a narrow, windowless room at the University of Southern California, a group of graduate students is workshopping a short story…. While they speak, their professor, the novelist Percival Everett, […]
Date: March 12, 2024
Today’s poem celebrates the glow and growth of daughters, their energy and curiosity, their intuition and vulnerability. Click here to listen.
Date: March 12, 2024
“Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything […]
Date: March 7, 2024
Catch her episode on March 5, 2024 Episode at 2:00pm Listen here.
Date: February 29, 2024
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. Click here to read more.
Date: February 28, 2024
About this Poem “This poem is inspired by the great songwriter and American treasure Paul Simon. I was teaching one of my college poetry classes about the strength of the […]
Date: February 28, 2024
A worker at a funeral home makes a special effort to locate the family members of an ailing woman, and unwittingly uncovers a family secret that goes back decades.
Date: February 28, 2024
On this edition of Your Call, David “Mas” Masumoto discusses his new memoir, Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm. It tells the story […]
Date: February 22, 2024
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a poet and artist who explores innovative and experimental writing techniques. Her writing incorporates computation and artificial intelligence alongside more conventional literary forms, with her interdisciplinary work […]
Date: May 2, 2022
Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom finds the former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood celebrating a colorful mosaic of mothering moments that range from the spiritual to […]
Date: April 21, 2022
Date: April 19, 2022
Date: April 19, 2022
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a time when gender was confined to “girl, boy, or faggot” and AIDS […]
Date: April 4, 2022
Elaborate scams and workplace murders abound in this bleakly comic novel.
Date: April 4, 2022
A socially awkward tech worker grapples with his impending divorce, his relationship with his young son, and his struggle to create human connections in a tech-driven world.
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]
Date: March 1, 2022
The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]
Date: February 22, 2022
Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who […]
