Date: January 24, 2024
Listening in Deep Space BY DIANE THIEL We’ve always been out looking for answers, telling stories about ourselves, searching for connection, choosing to send out Stravinsky and whale song, which, in […]
Date: January 24, 2024
Diane Thiel has lived in Europe and South America and is fluent in several languages. A 2001 Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Robert Frost and Robinson Jeffers awards, Thiel […]
Date: January 15, 2024
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Date: January 9, 2024
Combing through our Best of Indie list is always an interesting end-of-year exercise. Which trend percolated through our sample size of 100 books in 2023? Stewardship, a call for protection of […]
Date: January 8, 2024
“I was 16 when my father came home from his three-month stay in the mental hospital. I kept him company as he unpacked his suitcase and carefully, robotically, put away […]
Date: January 8, 2024
“Redmond City Council appointed Ching-In Chen as Redmond’s new poet laureate for 2024-25. Chen was selected through a robust process that included applying to an open call, a selection panel […]
Date: January 2, 2024
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Date: January 2, 2024
Handpicked by our expert librarians and staff, the poetry books in this list, all published in 2022, include debut collections and new classics from established poets. Click here to read […]
Date: January 2, 2024
David “Mas” Matsumoto, author of Epitaph for a Peach, Harvest Son, Changing Season, has yet another true story to share, this time a family secret so unspeakable that it remained buried for over […]
Date: January 2, 2024
A farmer and author in the small Fresno County community of Del Rey is sharing a personal story with a universal message. Mas Masumoto published a book in the spring […]
Date: June 30, 2025
Twelve years ago, Andrew Lam, a writer and journalist who left Vietnam as “a plane person” at the end of the Vietnam War at the age of eleven, published Birds of Paradise […]
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
