Date: May 15, 2023
In this conversation, H. L. Hix asks after poet Cynthia Hogue’s most recent collections, Contain (Tram Editions, 2022) and instead, it is dark (Red Hen, 2023).
Date: May 11, 2023
KATE GALE has authored seven poetry collections, including “The Loneliest Girl” (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2022), “The Goldilocks Zone” (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2014), “Echo Light” (Red Mountain […]
Date: May 8, 2023
“Family stories fill gaps in my sense of history,” writes David Mas Masumoto in Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, April […]
Date: May 4, 2023
My Chinese-Taiwanese grandma used to say that our Asian community comes from a long line of spoken words. From the ancient deities in our fairy tales about world creation, to […]
Date: May 4, 2023
Jade Shyback is the author of the new novel Aqueous. She lives in Oakville, Ontario. Q: What inspired you to write Aqueous, and how did you create your character Marisol? A: The inspiration […]
Date: May 3, 2023
American/Australian poet, David Mason, is also a verse novelist, librettist, and essayist. His latest collection of essays, Incarnation and Metamorphosis: Can literature change us?, is clearly the work of a man […]
Date: May 3, 2023
David van den Berg, author of “Love Letters from an Arsonist,” recommends raw and unflinchingly honest poems about the American South
Date: May 3, 2023
A California author and multi-generational peach farmer has penned a moving and revealing memoir about family, loss, secrets, survival and the unearthing of a painful past stemming from an unexpected […]
Date: May 3, 2023
Best known for Epitaph for a Peach (a Julia Child Cookbook Award winner and James Beard Foundation Food Writing Award finalist), David “Mas” Masumoto is a third generation, Sansei, organic farmer of peaches, nectarines, […]
Date: May 1, 2023
“Every family has secrets,” says David Mas Masumoto. “secrets that needto be told.” Find the full article in the April 21-May 4, 2023 print issue and stay tuned for the […]
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]
Date: July 29, 2024
What a great gift as Tilley proved to be a fine poet and a discerning observer of our world. Educated as a physicist with a PhD from Harvard and having […]
Date: July 15, 2024
Check out the review on July 19th!
Date: July 15, 2024
In Sadie Hoagland’s novel Circle of Animals, a woman goes through cycles of trauma, motherhood, complicated love, and perseverance in a misogynistic culture.
Date: July 10, 2024
VERDICT Well-crafted characters will draw in readers, and an intricately woven plot will keep them in their seats. Recommended for fans of Tana French, Gillian Flynn, and Karin Slaughter.
Date: July 8, 2024
Danielle Vogel’s third book, the 2020 poetry collection The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, is much more than a group of poems elegantly arranged. It’s a conversation between the […]
Date: July 2, 2024
In this memoir, David Mas Masumoto tackles a difficult time in American history as well as his own family history. Intertwined in this history of family, the imprisonment camps where […]
Date: July 2, 2024
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe by Jim Tilley published by Red Hen Press, Pasadena, California in June this year, is an interesting mix of relationship perceptions and how the universe […]
Date: July 2, 2024
The Good Deed reads like history that has been written over and over; perhaps it is just that the stories are as old as time, and displaced women and children—mute […]
Date: July 1, 2024
NYT lists A PUNISHING BREED as one of their picks for the 4 Great Fictional Detectives. Check out the full review below!
