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.
News & Reviews
News:
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, […]
Snap Judgement Podcast highlights “Seeking Shizuko” from DAVID MAS MASUMOTO’S book SECRET HARVESTS
Date: November 20, 2023
A young girl was lost to her family. Torn away from them during their time in the Japanese-American prison camps, she was institutionalized and thought to be gone. But now, […]
Reviews:
Poetry Salzburg Review Gives Ally Acker’s Some Help from the Dead an excellent review.
Date: January 31, 2012
In the Autumn 2011 edition, Poetry Salzburg Review said: "Ally Ackers Some Help from the Dead offers high-spirited, lively encounters with life and language as well as frequent commemorations […]
Publishers Weekly says Ron Carlson Delivers the Whimsy” “
Date: January 23, 2012
In a recent Publishers Weekly article, Wendy Werris profiles author Ron Carlson for their January 20th edition. Werris acknowledges that "after 10 books of fiction in 35 years [Carlson] will […]
Southern Indiana Review gives great review for Covet by Lynnell Edwards
Date: January 19, 2012
Southern Indian Review reviews Covet by Lynnell Edwards. Here is a small excerpt from the article: “…In Covet, femininity becomes a masterful force and fragility a pointed threat… Edwards uses […]
Covet by Lynnell Edwards reviewed by Book Punch
Date: January 18, 2012
Covet by Lynnell Edwards is reviewed by Book Punch in 200 words or less. “Covet is a verb. It’s active. Here, in these poems, it’s also a constant choice. And […]
Bigcitylit.com reviews Vocabulary Of Silence
Date: November 1, 2011
George Wallace reviewd Vocabulary Of Silence for BigCityLit. He said of it, Vocabulary of Silence is a collection to savor and experience fully, a collection to educate ourselves with. It […]
Hey, Small Press! reviews In the ice house
Date: October 27, 2011
Hey, Small Press! reviewed In the ice house, saying of it, Kaplan’s first collection of poetry somehow straddles the fence of simple and rich. The poet captures the natural world, […]
Bin Laden’s Bald Spot in Shelf Awareness
Date: October 27, 2011
Shelf Awareness, the popular daily e-newsletter, recently ran a review of BLBS, the new short story collection from Brian Doyle: "This is vintage Doyle, and it doesn't get much better. […]
Shelf Awareness looks at Blood Daughters
Date: October 27, 2011
Sara Dobie reviewed Blood Daughters for Shelf Awareness and was pleased to find "Blood Daughters is entertaining and well-written, with a vivacious heroine at the helm and action that doesn't […]
Kirkus Reviews Imagine No Religion by Blase Bonpane
Date: October 27, 2011
In reading Imagine No Religion Kirkus Reviews appreciates that "reading Bonpanes memoir is like exploring a mini-history of liberal activism over the last 45 years." Throughout the book, Bonpane (Civilization […]
The Midwest Book Review has high praise for In Confidence
Date: October 3, 2011
“An intriguing spin of poetry that touches on life and its surprises with clarity. Educated and well put, ‘In Confidence’ is a fine debut volume, very much recommended.” Click