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:
Blogger Cindy Sheppard calls My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus a must read!
Date: September 25, 2012
Here's what Cindy Sheppard had to say about My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus in a recent post on her blog, Cinzia, Lady in Weighting. – “This is a book […]
Calamity Joe makes The Gamut’s best of summer list!
Date: September 25, 2012
Janet Fitch picks Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe as one of her must reads for The Gamut's Books of Summer list. – "Poetry is the art of grabbing a fleeting moment […]
BookNAround praises David Maine’s latest book
Date: September 25, 2012
Kristen at BookNAround blog recommends her readers check out David Maine’s An Age of Madness for its slowly revealing plot that won’t let you put down the book until you […]
In the ice house featured in The Daily Iowan
Date: September 25, 2012
Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house reviewed in The Daily Iowan – "Kaplan can rove at a delirious pace between the kitchen and the forest with syntactical precision. Winter is […]
Review for Snake on Shelf Awareness
Date: September 25, 2012
Freelance writer Donald Powell hails Gary Lemons' Snake as both an apocalyptic and tear-filled ride. – "Snake is a wonderful fable, a trickster tale, a vision of a world set […]
The Kansas City Star reviews Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
Date: September 18, 2012
Here's what Elyssa East of The Kansas City Star had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. – “…an eye-opening read for anyone interested in reconciling […]
Praise for Jack Foley in Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review
Date: August 21, 2012
In praise of Jack Foley's The Dancer and the Dance, Marvin R. Hiemstra, of Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, says, "Here are magnificently crafted studies you won’t find anywhere else. […]
The Next Best Book Blog reviews David Maine’s An Age of Madness
Date: August 21, 2012
Lori Hettler had this to say about David Maine's An Age of Madness in her recent review for TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog. – "Through the brilliance of David […]
ForeWord reviews Two, Two, Lily-White Boys
Date: August 20, 2012
Chris Henning had this to say about Geoffrey Clark's Two, Two, Lily-White Boys in a recent review in ForeWord. – "Geoffrey Clark ups the ante in this coming-of-age story with […]
Booklist loves Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
Date: August 20, 2012
Susan DeGrane had this to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus in a recent review in Booklist. – "Barth’s tale of growing up gay in the […]