Friday 5 at 5
Date: January 2, 2024
Join a Denver Public Library reader’s advisor extraordinaire for a flash book buzz featuring hot new and forthcoming titles that you just have to know about! Give us 15 minutes, […]
News & Reviews
News:
Local author sharing family history through poetry
Date: January 2, 2024
A local author and Creative Writing professor at Fresno State is sharing her family history through poetry and written word. Click here to read more.
The 37 Best Books About Los Angeles Culture (and Beyond) Published In 2023
Date: January 2, 2024
Books change lives when they are read wholeheartedly and must be shared. This collection covers everything from L.A. noir to sci-fi to identity and poetry. Read, gift, and get inspired. […]
2023 Small Press Gift Guide
Date: December 12, 2023
BOMB looks back at the books from small and independent presses we featured in 2023 and helps you pair them with the idiosyncratic readers in your life. We’re grateful to […]
Francesca Bell Fearlessly Tackles the Unsettling in “What Small Sound” [INTERVIEW]
Date: December 12, 2023
Francesca Bell was raised in Washington and Idaho and settled as an adult in California. She did not complete middle school, high school, or college and holds no degrees. She […]
The Best Books We Read in 2023
Date: December 12, 2023
My picks are different than yours. Different than Jaylynn’s, than Tucker’s, than Joelene’s, than Andrea’s, than the New York Times. I love that about books. We couldn’t possibly read them all, […]
FLOPPY by ALYSSA GRAYBEAL is one of Library Journal’s “Best Memoirs & Biographies” of 2023!
Date: December 5, 2023
Graybeal’s book focuses on how her rare genetic connective-tissue disorder affects her daily life. She spills her emotions on the page as she is forced to navigate through life with […]
SECRET HARVESTS by David Mas Masumoto (illustrated by Patricia Wakida) is a finalist for the GOLDEN POPPY AWARDS in Nonfiction!
Date: November 30, 2023
Thank you so much to the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and CALIBA bookstore members!
Coco Picard, author of THE HEALING CIRCLE, interviews Mandy-Suzanne Wong for Electric Literature!
Date: November 21, 2023
In this comic interview, Mandy-Suzanne Wong talks about finding inspiration for her novel from a mundane household object. Click here to read more.
The New Yorker highlights ELISE PASCHEN’S BESTIARY in the importance of “telling Osage stories!”
Date: November 21, 2023
At the end of Anthony Lane’s review of “Killers of the Flower Moon”—Martin Scorsese’s new film about murders that were committed in the Osage Nation in the early twentieth century, […]
Reviews:
Big Sky Journal Loves If Not for This!
Date: November 21, 2014
Erin H. Turner of Big Sky Journal reviewed Pete Fromm's novel, If Not for This, and had this to say about it: “Where the brilliance of this novel shines through […]
The Rumpus Loves My Body Is a Book of Rules
Date: November 19, 2014
Samantha Claire Updegrave, writer for The Rumpus, recently gave a stellar review of Elissa Washuta's memoir, My Body Is a Book of Rules. Updegrave commends the author's ability to make […]
Lambda Literary Loves Spheres of Disturbance!
Date: November 14, 2014
Recently, Stephanie Glazier, writing for Lambda Literary, reviewed Amy Schutzer's new novel Spheres of Disturbance, singing its praises: "I had a big reaction to this novel. I finished it in […]
My Body Is a Book of Rules Gets Called Inventive” and “Heartbreaking””
Date: November 7, 2014
Barbara Lloyd McMichael of The Seattle Times recently reviewed Elissa Washuta's memoir, My Body Is a Book of Rules. McMichael calls it "bitterly funny, fierce, sometimes crass and sometimes heartbreaking." […]
BookNAround loves If Not For This!
Date: October 30, 2014
In a recent review of If Not For This, BookNAround praises Pete Fromm's ability to capture life: "The descriptions of the physical world, the rivers and the wilderness are simply […]
Waxwing Reviews My Body is a Book of Rules!
Date: October 23, 2014
Waxwing Mag gives high praise to Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules: "My Body is a Book of Rules is a painful book to read, but true, […]
Crossroads Literary Journal Praises My Body Is a Book of Rules
Date: October 23, 2014
Tai Dietrich of Crossroads Literary Journal recently reviewed Elissa Washuta's debut memoir, and had this to say about it: “In a way that is exceptionally frank, Washuta vividly describes to […]
The The Poetry praises Interrobang
Date: October 21, 2014
K.T. Billey gave a great review of Jessica Piazza's Interrobang. She commends Piazza's ability to bring the traditional sonnet form into the modern world, and said: “Every good book raises […]
Lit Reactor loves Sex World!
Date: October 15, 2014
Brian McGackin, writing for Lit Reactor, recently reviewed Ron Koertge's new flash fiction collection, Sex World, and had nothing but praise for the book: "I've enjoyed a lot of books […]
The Bellingham Herald Praises If Not For This
Date: October 9, 2014
Barbara Lloyd McMichael of The Bellingham Herald had great things to say about Pete Fromm's latest novel. She praised the strong, heroic characters that he wrote, and had this to […]