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:
Kelsey Street Press reviews Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house
Date: August 16, 2012
HK Rainey of Kelsey Street Press had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house – "In Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house, poems both jarring and lovely […]
Eric Howard admires Golos’s Vocabulary of Silence
Date: August 1, 2012
Rattle reviewer Eric Howard writes admiringly of Veronica Golos's lastest collection of poetry, Vocabulary of Silence: "Aligning herself with the nameless and the silent, Golos makes their story ours." To […]
Politics and Prose admiringly remarks on Many Ways to Say It
Date: August 1, 2012
Writing for Politics and Prose Laurie Greer lauds the poetry of Eva Saulitis's newest collection Many Ways to Say It. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When […]
Praise for A Halfman Dreaming in Wisconsin Bookwatch
Date: August 1, 2012
In a recent publication, the Wisconsin Bookwatch had some kind words for David Matlin's latest novel. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When you go through life […]
Kirkus Reviews on Kelly Barth’s vivid” memoir My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus”
Date: July 20, 2012
Kirkus Reviews says, "Barth recalls her youth and young adulthood with vivid detail and imagery. Though much of the book centers on her faith or life amid various faith traditions, […]
Rattle Reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Refreshing and Unexpected” But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise “
Date: July 20, 2012
Lori A. May for Rattle says of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise that, "And just as storms are beautiful from a distance, violent from within, and […]
Publishers Weekly Reviews David Maine’s An Age of Madness
Date: July 16, 2012
In a recent review, Publishers Weekly had some kind words for An Age of Madness, the new novel by acclaimed writer David Maine: "In the deftly sketched Regina, Maine has […]
The Modern-Day Hitchhiker loves Josh Pryor’s Fade to Black
Date: July 16, 2012
In his recent review on The Modern-Day Hitchhiker, Jason Aydelotte says that, "[Fade to Black] has got plenty of action, gore in all the right places without seeming too overblown, […]
Sugar House Review loves William Trowbridge’s Ship of Fool
Date: June 21, 2012
In a recent review in the Sugar House review, Liz Kay had this to say about Ship of Fool by William Trowbridge – "Throughout the book, we’re treated to Trowbridge’s […]
Santa Cruz Weekly highly rates Robert Sward’s New and Selected poems 1957-2011
Date: June 20, 2012
In the review entitled, 'Robert Sward releases his career collection,' Stephen Kessler acknowledges that Sward is Santa Cruz's "most nationally famous resident poet." To see the full review, please click