Date: April 15, 2026
Poet Molly Fisk sits down with Ben C. Davies at Ginosko Literary Journal to discuss her writing life, influences, and creative practice, as well as her new novel-in-verse Walking Wheel […]
Date: April 14, 2026
Los Angeles is not a city that produces novels. It produces pressure. It produces atmosphere. At face value, its promise is that it will always go on to produce pleasure, […]
Date: April 14, 2026
lan Chazaro is a Bay Area-raised poet, journalist, and educator now living in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, whose work bridges hip-hop, Chicano identity, and speculative imagination. He is the author of […]
Date: April 14, 2026
In an interview from Spain, the multi-talented Luke Goebel shared some insights to his new novel, Kill Dick. Goebel is the co-writer of feature films such as Eileen, starring Anne […]
Date: April 14, 2026
The club of Nevada County Poet Laureates is small but complex; when Molly Fisk first received the call to action she wasn’t so sure. It seemed like a daunting task […]
Date: April 13, 2026
Andrew Lam fled Vietnam at the age of 11 in 1975, seeking refuge in the Bay Area of California, and now he stopped by Suffolk to share his perspective through […]
Date: April 13, 2026
STORIES FROM THE EDGE of the Sea (2025), Andrew Lam’s newest collection of short stories, assembles the raw experiences of the Vietnamese diaspora into a beautiful confection. Experimental at times but […]
Date: April 8, 2026
Ten years in the making, “Kill Dick” takes a big swing at the great American novel in a time when both taking big swings and the idea of the great […]
Date: April 8, 2026
Writer Luke Goebel has been leaving his mark across Los Angeles with a series of spray-painted ‘Kill Dick’ stencil designs on sidewalks throughout the city. Goebel, who recently drove down […]
Date: April 7, 2026
After experiencing firsthand the devastation of opioids, Luke Goebel says he wrote his new novel as a form of “direct action against the major dicks that kill us all.” Writing […]
Date: May 23, 2024
Library Journal has a new, exciting review on novel A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost. Subscribe to Library Journal to read the full review!
Date: May 22, 2024
In Cheri Johnson’s “Annika Rose,” the titular character is just 17-years-old when the novel begins. Annika lives in a trailer with her father where they’ve lived since her mother died […]
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]
Date: May 22, 2024
Prolific Murfreesboro poet Gaylord Brewer turns his hand to short nonfiction in Before the Storm Takes It Away, his latest from Red Hen Press. While the structure of the 125 pieces […]
Date: May 21, 2024
Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing […]
Date: May 15, 2024
William Trowbridge has stopped by the pages of Light before in the guise of Oldguy (Reviews, Summer/Fall 2020). Now he’s back with a collection recounting the exploits of a classic persona, The Fool, traced […]
Date: May 15, 2024
Brice previously chronicled her Alaska youth in “Unlearning to Fly.” In “Another North,” she returns to Fairbanks as a divorced woman longing for a sense of home. The new collection […]
Date: May 15, 2024
Everett’s formally virtuosic latest collection (after The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke) interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic […]
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in the Spring, 2024 issue, no. 51, pp. 223-7. To Move Wild Laughter Near the end Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, the heroine, Rosaline, tells her suitor […]
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in vol. 63, no. 1, fall, 2023, pp. 54-6. FOOLISH VIRTUOSITY William Trowbridge. Call Me Fool. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2022. $17.95, paper. William Trowbridge […]
