Jessica Jopp discusses FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD on Monkeybike’s “If My Book” blog!
Date: August 16, 2023
“If From the Longing Orchard were a line from Shakespeare, it would be Polonius’ ‘To thine own self be true.'”
News & Reviews
News:
Shondaland features article ‘ChatGPT, Gary, and Me’ by Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME!
Date: August 15, 2023
A writer watched her husband become enthralled with AI technology, using it as an outlet for his own type of storytelling. But, ChatGPT’s — and his — penchant for violent […]
Raymond Luczak’s “Otters” featured on Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day!
Date: July 25, 2023
Afaa Weaver, author of A FIRE IN THE HILLS, wins the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award!
Date: July 20, 2023
At the Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA, poet Afaa Weaver will be the recipient of our New England Poetry Club’s prestigious Golden Rose Award. Last year’s winner was Patricia Smith.
Jade Shyback discusses AQUEOUS with CBC Radio host Margaret Gallagher!
Date: July 11, 2023
Debut novel Aqueous by author Jade Shyback captures young imaginations Aqueous is a Young Adult thriller set on the brink of the Earth’s collapse…which sends young Marisol Blaise to live […]
Electric Literature recommends David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS!
Date: July 10, 2023
When David Mas Masumoto is contacted by a stranger regarding his maternal aunt Shizuko, he is at first slightly confused. From family, he has only heard whispers of Shizuko, who […]
Afaa Weaver’s A FIRE IN THE HILLS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
In A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen, Apr.), Afaa Weaver seeks to define himself in relation to his environment, particularly as a Black man in the United States.
Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
…novelist Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen, Sept.), about her 21-year-old son’s death at a time of national upheaval.
Mark Gozonsky shouts-out Kim Dower in LA TIMES list of ’13 chill L.A. parks for when you want to do absolutely nothing’!
Date: June 29, 2023
Loafing is the most popular lesson of my 20-year teaching career. I got the idea from Walt Whitman, who writes in “Song of Myself”: I loafe and invite my soul, […]
Lara Ehrlich featured in the Connecticut Examiner!
Date: June 28, 2023
STONINGTON — In a dark green, cozy room decorated with icons, books, poetry and antiques, Lara Ehrlich sat at a large table, while her puppy, Cocoa, slept in a chair […]
Reviews:
Authorlink recommends AQUEOUS by Jade Shyback
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 […]
Dennis Must’s MACLEISH SQ. reviewed in California Review of Books!
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 […]
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed in Library Journal!
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 […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Amber Flame’s APOCRIFA!
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.
MACLEISH SQ. by Dennis Must Receives a Five-Star Review on Readers’ Favorite!
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. […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason Reviewed in Think Journal’s Winter/Spring 2023 Issue!
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 […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason Reviewed in Literary Matters!
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 […]
SECRET HARVESTS by David Mas Masumoto Reviewed in the March 2023 issue of Booklist!
Date: February 15, 2023
Stay tuned for the review March 1!
MACLEISH SQ. by Dennis Must Reviewed in The U.S. Review of Books
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 […]
EcoLit Books Reviews Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!
Date: January 31, 2023
The end of the world is not for the faint of heart, and neither is Thea Prieto’s bold and beautiful novella about four humans pushed to the limits of climate […]