Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK featured in Alta!
Date: April 6, 2026
In Brentwood, college dropout Susie sinks into lethargy, surrounded by her family’s riches, aided by a pill habit. But her life of leisure and luxury comes to a fast halt […]
News & Reviews
News:
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK appeared in Crime Fiction Lover!
Date: April 6, 2026
A teenage addict and an ex-professor running a rehab scam find common ground in Luke Goebel’s dark and satirical literary thriller Kill Dick, out on 14 April. Susie Vogelman is […]
Luke Goebel KILL DICK featured in ART NEWS
Date: April 6, 2026
Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick, Luke Goebel’s debut. This unhinged work of bicoastal art world satire imagines Sackler-family revenge from the vantage of an NYU […]
Read This Insightful Note From Helen Benedict
Date: April 2, 2026
Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early […]
Amy Pence featured in Writer’s Digest!
Date: March 31, 2026
Author Amy Pence shares her “silver linings playbook” to publishing past a certain age and how being a late-bloomer can be a plus.
David Eggleton’s poem, THE NAVIGATORS, from his collection, LIFTING THE ISLAND, selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2025!
Date: March 31, 2026
David Eggleton is a poet of Papālagi, Rotuman and Tongan descent, with ancestral connections to the villages of Motusa and Ma’ufanga. He lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin and was the New […]
Rebecca Chace’s TALKING TO THE WOLF listed in Oldster Magazine!
Date: March 25, 2026
This is Rebecca Chace’s fifth book and third novel, and her first that isn’t with a Big Five publisher. “At a time that is not easy for publishing literary fiction […]
Kristen Millares Young interviewed on Seattle City of Literature!
Date: March 24, 2026
Tune in for an exclusive inside look at Kristen Millares Young’s upcoming memoir, DESIRE LINES!
New poetry from David Mason featured in Narrative Magazine!
Date: March 24, 2026
David Mason, former poet laureate of Colorado, is the author of numerous books, including Cold Fire (Red Hen, 2026), The Sound: New and Selected Poems, Ludlow: A Verse Novel, and […]
MER Bookshelf – March 2026
Date: March 19, 2026
In this rich new collection, Molly Fisk braids together the ordinary tasks of love and work in 1875, a century we’ve almost forgotten but whose human concerns are universal and […]
Reviews:
River Teeth reviews Alyssa Graybeal’s FLOPPY!
Date: November 28, 2023
Alyssa Graybeal begins her memoir with a list of acronyms for a host of medical conditions, the central one of which is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This inherited disorder affects the ability […]
Independent Book Review reviews YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND by Juliana Lamy!
Date: November 21, 2023
YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND by Juliana Lamy is a steely-eyed collection of short stories centered on Haitian life, from the Dominican Republic to Florida. Check out what Genevieve […]
MER Literary reviews WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell!
Date: November 21, 2023
Dedicated to her mother, the second collection of poems by Francesca Bell, What Small Sound, is a group of ruminations on being mothered and being a mother, and the way the […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s fantasy novel CURSEBREAKERS described as “guiding us into the next age of the fantasy world” by Ahmad Nazir for Gulf News!
Date: November 6, 2023
“In Cursebreakers, Madeleine Nakamura delivers a thought-provoking exploration of curses and blessings all within the framework of a captivating fantasy world. It is a rare gem in the fantasy genre […]
David Nikki Crouse’s I’M HERE and TROUBLE WILL SAVE YOU reviewed by Anchorage Daily News!
Date: October 30, 2023
The publication of two books in one year is either an impressive achievement or a fluke of timing. Whichever the case may be, David Nikki Crouse’s short and shorter fictions […]
Reconciling Life’s Pain & Love: A Review of WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell
Date: October 26, 2023
How can we exist within, and navigate our way through, a world where the deepest beauty is inextricably linked to the darkest ugliness? Francesca Bell’s unflinching second collection of poetry, […]
MAPPING THE SURREAL: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN RICH
Date: October 19, 2023
Susan Rich’s eighth book, Blue Atlas, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (April 2, 2024). Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) and Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for […]
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Date: October 17, 2023
Poets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are followed by […]
Review of Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM featured in Jewish Book Council!
Date: October 11, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
“tender gravity”–a gem of a book by Marybeth Holleman
Date: October 10, 2023
Marybeth Holleman’s book tender gravity was my companion on a recent hike in Avalanche Canyon in Grand Teton National Park, and what fine company it was, contributing to the feeling of well-being […]