AMERICAN BASTARD listed as a top ten Great Summer Read in Pittsburgh Magazine!
Date: May 17, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM a Los Angeles Times BESTSELLER!
Date: May 12, 2022
According to a report by the California Independent Booksellers Association, Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today For You, Mom is Number 6 on the list of Top 10 hardcover […]
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM is a SoCal Indie Bookstore Bestseller!
Date: May 11, 2022
The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended May 8 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. […]
Beth Gilstrap’s DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize in Fiction!
Date: May 9, 2022
The Stanford Libraries has announced the shortlist for the tenth William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Saroyan Prize), a Prize intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the […]
Manzanita Papers picks BOY OH BOY for its 9th subscription box!
Date: May 5, 2022
Kim Dower interviewed in The San Diego Union-Tribune!
Date: May 5, 2022
Charles Harper Webb writes for Shepherd!
Date: May 5, 2022
Kim Stafford poem featured in Poets.org
Date: May 3, 2022
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM author Kim Dower discusses her relationship with her mom in Oprah Daily!
Date: May 2, 2022
My lifelong relationship with poetry began at five with my mother’s reading A.A. Milne’s Now We Are Six—“They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace/Christopher Robin went down with Alice” to me, which […]
Frederick Morgan’s EPILOGUE selected as a Critic’s Pick in the New Criterion
Date: May 2, 2022
Frederick Morgan, Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, edited by Paula Deitz (Red Hen Press): “Fred Morgan managed to have three distinguished literary careers,” we noted in our pages at the time of his […]
Reviews:
Adroit Journal: Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]
Empty Mirror: Hope Amidst Uncertainty: Subduction by Kristen Millares Young, reviewed by Jessica Gigot
Date: June 3, 2020
What happens when the world as you know it changes course? When your seemingly rock-solid life suddenly becomes thin and porous? Such is the case for Claudia, a Latinx anthropologist based […]
Library Journal reviews Subduction
Date: June 3, 2020
VERDICT Gorgeously, toughly written, this book dares to be open-ended yet leaves readers with a satisfying sense of how life really unfolds. Cultural clash matters here, but personal differences and […]
The Seattle Times: Storytelling in Neah Bay forms the fault line in brilliant debut ‘Subduction’ from Seattle’s Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 3, 2020
In the gray autumn of Seattle, Claudia, an anthropology professor, is on edge. Her marriage is over after she found out her husband and sister were having an affair. She’s […]
The Washington Post: In ‘Subduction,’ an anthropologist observing a remote fishing village becomes part of the story
Date: June 2, 2020
What was it the anthropologist said? Claudia wonders as she types up her notes. “Oh, yes. ‘An observer is under the bed. A participant observer is in it.’ She doubted […]
The Book Slut Reviews Body of Render: Poems by Felicia Zamora
Date: May 28, 2020
This moving collection of poetry by Felicia Zamora covers a range of topics from love, politics, identity, addiction, and the natural world. On one level, Body of Render explores a […]
The Paris Review: Staff Picks Subduction
Date: May 21, 2020
Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel Subduction takes as its subject a subtle clash of culture in the Pacific Northwest. The novel’s protagonist, Claudia, is an anthropologist fleeing the remains of her marriage […]
Midwest Book Review recommends Lifesaving for Beginners
Date: March 16, 2020
TBT! In a mid-April review, Midwest Book Review recommended Anne Edelstein’s memoir Lifesaving for Beginners. The recommendation reads, “It is no surprise that Lifesaving for Beginners is an deftly crafted, engagingly presented, intensely […]
Praise for What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
Date: March 16, 2020
Camille Dungy shares with us in this manuscript her sharp, clear and honest ear and her unswerving commitment to the voice of life. She is a brave poet writing true […]