Hasty Book List Features LIVID by Cai Emmons!
Date: September 28, 2022
HBL Note: Cai Emmons, who I first featured when she published Sinking Islands, has not one but two books coming out in September! Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS […]
News & Reviews
News:
Cai Emmons, author of LIVID, discusses women’s rage in The Millions essay
Date: September 26, 2022
When my mother and I used to ride the New York City subway together, she would look at the men sitting across from us with their legs splayed and launch […]
CAI EMMONS featured on KBOO podcast with Ken Jones
Date: September 26, 2022
On today’s episode, we welcome Cai Emmons, author of the new novels Unleashed from Dutton, and LIVID from Red Hen Press. She is a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, whose work includes the […]
Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE Featured on Louder Sound
Date: September 26, 2022
Former Dead Can Dance percussionist Peter Ulrich is to release his memoirs on November 15 through Red Hen Press. Drumming With Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures recounts his time […]
LitHub Features Ellen Meeropol (THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT) with Guest Essay on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories
Date: September 16, 2022
I grew up in a family reluctant to tell stories. Like about Elizabeth, my grandmother who left Russia and immigrated to Brooklyn. Did she really participate in the 1905 Menshevik […]
Electric Lit’s BOOKTAILS creates mocktail for Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!
Date: September 16, 2022
Curl up with a cocktail and Thea Prieto’s “From The Caves,” and walk the line between truth and myth, story and identity SEP 16, 2022 LINDSAY MERBAUM Winner of the […]
Cai Emmons on fear, drugs, and her fatal diagnosis
Date: September 14, 2022
It suddenly occurred to me: I had taken a risk, invited an experience I was scared of, and I’d survived it. I could—and would—take such a risk again. And it […]
Cai Emmons reflects on humor and her fatal diagnosis in Today
Date: September 14, 2022
I imagine most people, like me, receive a fatal diagnosis with surprise. We all know intellectually that we will die, but no one really feels death as a certainty. We […]
Carlos Allende, Author of COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE, Interviewed on LitHub First Draft Podcast by Mitzi Rapkin
Date: September 12, 2022
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, […]
CAI EMMONS reflects on writing and silence in LitHub article
Date: September 12, 2022
“The question looms large: How does one assert oneself as a person, a woman, without a speaking voice, without sound waves commandeering attention?”
Reviews:
Kinship of Clover by Ellen Meeropol
Date: June 6, 2017
Mom Egg Review gives Ellen Meeropol's latest offering, KINSHIP OF CLOVER, a stellar evaluation, stating that "Meeropol is at her best when her characters articulate their felt experience of losing […]
Lambda Literary Reviews “how to get over”
Date: May 31, 2017
“ford’s evocative poems traverse time, gender, ancestry, and love. Each slender poem cuts with precision, packing a tremendous amount of power into a slim volume.” t’ai freedom ford’s “how to […]
how to get over” Reviewed by Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards”
Date: May 31, 2017
“Like Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” ford elevates pain into introspective art, carefully connecting the dots between what it means to be black and what it means to be free. how to […]
Booklist Reviews THE NIGHTLIFE
Date: May 17, 2017
Booklist reviewed Elise Paschen’s THE NIGHTLIFE in their May 15, 2017 issue! They praise the collection saying, “[Paschen] achieves breathtaking perfection of craft and form. . . . As these […]
Laurel Ann Bogen featured in Tribe LA Magazine Mother’s Day Post
Date: May 15, 2017
From this she carved her own redemption through poetry and, along the way, influenced not only other poets in Los Angeles but also people who did not know they enjoyed […]
The Self Misshapen at Night: A Review of Elise Paschen’s ‘The Nightlife’
Date: May 15, 2017
Elise Paschen's THE NIGHTLIFE received glowing praise from F Newsmagazine's Natasha Mijares. Take a look at what Mijares has to say and then check out Elise's amazing collection! "The sun […]
Ellen Meeropol on Womens Magazine
Date: May 12, 2017
Ellen Meeropol sits down with Womens Magazine to discuss her newest novel, mental health and climate change. Listen to her brilliant interview
Appreciation – Erin Malone on Water & Salt
Date: May 3, 2017
Poetry Northwest features Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Water & Salt in their new series, Appreciations! Read it
Gabriel Jesiolowski gets a stunning review in A Foreword Reviews!
Date: May 1, 2017
A Foreword Reviews LGBTQ+ Spotlight issue features our very own Gabriel Jesiolowski! "As Burning Leaves, Gabriel Jesiolowski's debut collection, is an experience in othernesss from a poet experienced in teaching […]
The Library Journal reviews As Burning Leaves
Date: April 27, 2017
Jesiolowski has a fine grasp of craft and emotion.