Date: April 10, 2024
Dear Edna Sloane by Amy Shearn – April 30 (Red Hen Press) “I’ve long been an ardent, near-obsessive fan of Amy Shearn’s sophisticated, hilarious, big-hearted fiction, and with Dear Edna Sloane, she […]
Date: April 9, 2024
On the occasion of the book launch for Ulrich Jesse K Baer’s Deer Black Out, join us for a philosophical and ufological reading and trans-genre dialogue with Ulrich Jesse K Baer and […]
Date: April 9, 2024
Congratulations to this week’s featured poet at Yetzirah: a hearth for Jewish poetry, Susan Rich, on the recent publication of BLUE ATLAS (Red Hen Press). Diane Seuss writes that this […]
Date: April 9, 2024
Susan Rich sat down with Crab Creek Review to discuss her latest book Blue Atlas, the themes of the book, and her writing in general. Blue Atlas is a lyrical abortion […]
Date: April 8, 2024
There is a huge market for books outside the United States, so how can U.S. publishers break into the international market, and how do publishers know which markets are a […]
Date: April 8, 2024
“Every refugee’s story opens in horror, passes through betrayal, and ends in a question.” This sentence, spoken by a protagonist in my new novel, The Good Deed, came to me […]
Date: April 8, 2024
A MIGHTY BLAZE vision: “a book may seem like a small candle in a dark time, but when you put many books together, they make a mighty blaze to light […]
Date: April 8, 2024
Looking for a direct line to your character’s innermost thoughts? In our world of digital noise, it can be overwhelming all the time, never mind when you need a quiet […]
Date: April 3, 2024
The following is from Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed. Benedict is a British-American writer whose most recent work is about war and refugees. Her war novels received citations as best book […]
Date: April 2, 2024
Helen Benedict’s new novel, The Good Deed, follows four refugee women whose lives suddenly collide with an American tourist’s on the Greek island of Samos after she rescues a drowning […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Set in Havana, Cuba, The Playwright’s House is an expansive yet intimate novel about a young lawyer Serguey and his family when their father Felipe, a notable theater director, is detained by […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
