La Maja Desnuda Interviews Diane Thiel about QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE!
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of twelve books of poetry and nonfiction.
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of twelve books of poetry and nonfiction.
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel with SoFloPoJo’s Elisa Albo for Miami Book Fair 2022.
Date: November 21, 2022
John Weir’s short story collection Your Nostalgia is Killing Me is featured in North of Oxford’s “Most Read Reviews” of this year. Charles Rammelkamp writes “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me is entertaining and heartbreaking by turns, always a gripping read.”
Date: November 17, 2022
“Time in the Wilderness” by Diane Thiel is from Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022).
Date: November 15, 2022
Selma told me she is reading festival author Emmons’ Sinking Islands and recommends it to anyone interested in mystery and nature.
Date: November 15, 2022
Peter Ulrich thinks he got the ultimate fan trip ― to play, record, and tour with his favourite band, Dead Can Dance. His memoir details the early days, from signing with 4AD, recording their first album, then heading off on tour with Cocteau Twins.
Date: November 14, 2022
Sharp, elegiac, angry, funny stories with a searing loneliness often just underneath the surface.
Date: November 7, 2022
The upcoming book recounts the author’s experiences as drummer/percussionist with Dead Can Dance through the 1980s, his contribution to This Mortal Coil and being a guest on several 4AD recordings. It’s an in-depth memoir written in a very exciting way, recalling all those tiny details we all wanted to know more about, including his two […]
Date: November 7, 2022
Pamela Uschuk is a poet, political activist, and wilderness advocate. She is also a cancer survivor, and in this week’s segment of KNAU’s series PoetrySnaps!, she shares a poem that moves through the experience and endurance of chemotherapy. Uschuk says her poem Green Flame was inspired by one particular sight in nature.
Date: November 7, 2022
Poet Anna V.Q. Ross knows what to leave unsaid, knows the just enough to send the reader’s blood and mind alight.
Date: March 27, 2023
Peter Ulrich writes his memoir as a witness to the rise of one of the most inspiring, celebrated, and enigmatic independent bands to come out of London in the ’80s. He maps 40 years of Dead Can Dance, from their early Australian beginnings playing the Melbourne club scene, to symphony-accompanied performances on the world stage.
Date: March 27, 2023
Shyback has created an all-too-believable future with a consummate eye for detail and realism in this, her debut novel. Marisol and her companions are terrific characters, and the reader will cheer them on as they go through the angst-ridden years of young adulthood in a strange environment.
Date: March 21, 2023
As with many of Dennis Must’s other fictions, consisting of three novels and three short story collections, MacLeish Sq. is a tale about personal identity. Who are we, and how do we come to know the nature of our being in this world? In this most recent novel, what the imagination seizes just might be true, […]
Date: March 21, 2023
In confiding, conversational poems full of homey detail, Dower (Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave) plunges deep into motherhood, limning her relationship with her own mother and how it has shaped her life.
Date: March 21, 2023
The expansive and formally inventive second collection from Flame (Ordinary Cruelty) considers the cornerstones of romance—doubt, surrender, grief, resolution—through poems about hunger, exploration, and forbidden fruit.
Date: March 15, 2023
John Proctor is about to turn seventy when he decides to buy a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the now mostly desolate mill town where he had grown up. Nostalgia haunts his waking hours and he often reminisces about the happier times in his life. One day in wintertime, John sees a young man […]
Date: March 15, 2023
“Pacific Light may be a summing up, but it is also a new beginning, a book that marvels at the world while confronting loss through the lens of joy. Though individually dazzling, its poems combine to stunning effect, equaling—or even surpassing—the very best in Mason’s superb body of work.” —Ned Balbo, Think Journal
Date: March 6, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason returns to a familiar theme: his conflicting desires to go places and to stay put. This master of the narrative poem, and a well-established voice in American letters, has, after building a reputation as a writer of the American West, moved to Tasmania.
Date: February 15, 2023
Stay tuned for the review March 1!
Date: February 13, 2023
“At that moment we saw walking toward us a trio of bearded men in black robes mumbling to themselves what I inferred was the liturgy of The White Whale.” As he approaches the age of seventy—the final trimester of his life—memories of John Proctor’s childhood draw him back to the hometown he could not wait […]