An essay by Luke Goebel featured in Literary Hub!
Date: April 28, 2026
On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.) Luke Goebel Considers the Evolution of a Novel, and a Relationship.
News & Reviews
News:
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE Appeared in Literary Hub!
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, revealed not only what it was like to be a woman at war, but the […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE featured in The Common
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s The Soldier’s House, recommended by Issue 29 contributor Terese Svoboda In The Soldier’s House, Jimmy Donnell, a dazed PTSD-suffering vet, takes in the family of his dead Iraqi translator, including Tariq, the […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE appeared in A Mighty Blaze special interview
Date: April 27, 2026
A Mighty Blaze Special Interview presents Jade Danelian with Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, LIVE on April 15 at 4:00 PM ET.
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE featured in largehearted boy!
Date: April 27, 2026
“Music runs throughout The Soldier’s House as this plot unfolds, played on a little cassette recorder, the car radio, on an iPod (remember those?), or simply in the heads of […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, interviewed by Full Stop!
Date: April 27, 2026
Helen Benedict is no stranger to writing raw, careful prose about deep, complex characters. Her newest novel, The Soldier’s House, lives up to that legacy as it tells the story of […]
Luke Goebel describes his new novel, Kill Dick, in CrimeReads!
Date: April 16, 2026
To put it plainly, we are not shocked anymore. Not really, not by the current delivery mechanisms that have risen to fill our feeds, our media intakes, etc. We simulate […]
Luke Goebel celebrates the release of his novel, KILL DICK, with Flaunt Magazine!
Date: April 15, 2026
Last night, FLAUNT and Luke Goebel celebrated the release of his novel Kill Dick with an intimate gathering at Genghis Cohen Los Angeles.
Luke Goebel shares his KILL DICK playlist with Largehearted Boy!
Date: April 15, 2026
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel KILL DICK.
Andrew Lam reads excerpts from STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA on GBH Forum Network!
Date: April 15, 2026
Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author who has written about the overseas Vietnamese experience. He visited Boston’s Ford Hall Forum to discuss his latest collection, “Stories from the Edge […]
Reviews:
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel Reviewed in the Florida Review!
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel’s third collection of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, comes after an interlude during which the poet devoted her energies to a travel memoir (The White Horse) and the translation […]
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in Literary Matters!
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT Reviewed in LA Review of Books!
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
The Friday Poem recommends Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS Receives a Starred Kirkus Review!
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE Earns a Kirkus Star!
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]
PEN America Interviews John Weir, Author of YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: November 14, 2022
The title of your book Your Nostalgia is Killing Me, seems to be an ironic one. The protagonist’s nostalgia is seemingly running havoc on his own life. He can’t escape revisiting the past and […]
TENDER GRAVITY by Marybeth Holleman Reviewed in the Colorado Review!
Date: November 9, 2022
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and her chosen home of Alaska, tender gravity is her debut collection of poetry. Its title is drawn […]
Warped Perspective recommends Peter Ulrich’s Drumming with Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures
Date: November 9, 2022
Dead Can Dance have long been a deeply resonant, exploratory presence on the outskirts of alternative music. Never comfortably existing in one genre or another – no surprises there, given […]