Date: January 18, 2022
Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive,” and back in 2016, when Lily Brooks-Dalton’s post-apocalyptic novel Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Random House) was […]
Date: January 18, 2022
Date: January 11, 2022
Jim Peterson takes readers on a surreal journey in his short story collection The Sadness of Whirlwinds. In this first episode of the 2022 season of The Fall for the […]
Date: January 5, 2022
There’s a ancient saying that money is not so much the problem; it’s the love of money that causes the trouble. There’s another truth about the topic: It’s really hard […]
Date: January 5, 2022
This conversation is wide ranging, touching on health and the internal experiences of having a body, as well as the external forces and cruelty that can impact the body. Our […]
Date: January 4, 2022
MY FATHER’S PAINT BOX was made of leather-covered wood, worn at the corners so the wood showed through. As a child, I loved opening that box, looking at the inner […]
Date: January 4, 2022
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and for some of us, it ushers in a period of time away from work. Couple that with omicron forcing many of us inside and away […]
Date: December 15, 2021
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2022. The guest editors are all award-winning […]
Date: December 14, 2021
Philanthropy is changing. Spurred by the Covid-19 crisis, America’s racial reckoning, increasingly frequent climate disasters and a profound sense that traditional ways of giving are insufficient to meet burgeoning needs, […]
Date: December 14, 2021
The San Francisco philanthropists Jennifer and David Risher believe so strongly that rich donors should give more of the money in their donor-advised funds to charities, and more quickly, that […]
Date: February 27, 2012
Lee Polevoi of the Los Angeles Review of Books says that, "Bin Laden's Bald Spot encompasses worlds of absurdity and quotidian reality in the voices of ordinary citizens. Underneath the […]
Date: February 16, 2012
In the Connecticut River Review, Emilia Phillips says that "Brewer's intentions in Give Over, Graymalkin waver between reverence and ravaging, and the tension between the two creates an energy that […]
Date: February 16, 2012
In the Asheville Poetry Review, Patrick Bizzaro had this to say about Gaylord Brewer's Give Over, Graymalkin- "As poetry, Brewer's work avoids sentimentality and instead reveals the inner workings of […]
Date: February 13, 2012
Recently, James A. Cox of The Midwest Book Review had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan – "In the ice house is a core addition to any modern poetry collection." […]
Date: February 9, 2012
D.K. Row notes that “‘Bin Laden’s Bald Spot,’ illustrates how avidly Doyle likes to experiment with narrative structure; draw tersely spoken characters; riff using folksy humor but also with 19th-century […]
Date: January 31, 2012
The editor's at The Midwest Book Review had this to say about Robert Sward's poetry collection: “‘New and Selected Poems: 1957-2011’ is a collection of poetry from Robert Sward, looking […]
Date: January 31, 2012
Smartish Pace gives deep insight into Gaylord Brewer and his collection, Give Over, Graymalkin: “Brewer is a deeply personal poet, and in many ways is his own best subject. He […]
Date: January 31, 2012
The editors of Notre Dame Review acknowledge: Contributor Gaylord Brewers new book [consists] mainly [of] poems written far away from his home in Tennesseein India during a residency at the […]
Date: January 31, 2012
Robin Linn for Sugar House Review had this to say about Give Over, Graymalkin: Brewers collection engages with adventuresome verse that is lyrical, rhythmic and lush with allusion. Sugar House […]
Date: January 31, 2012
Notre Dame Magazine spotlights Bin Laden's Bald Spot, saying: In [Brian Doyles] collection of 25 stories, readers will meet a barber who shaves the heads of thugs in Bin Ladens […]
