John Weir interviewed in Grab Magazine!
Date: May 24, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Pamela Uschuk’s “Web” featured in The Long Islander Newspaper!
Date: May 24, 2022
SUBDUCTION author Kristen Millares Young will speak on a panel at Orcas Island Lit Fest!
Date: May 23, 2022
Saturday brings the main event: The festival’s featured authors will take to the stage for readings of their work and panel discussions like “Women Who Confound Expectations,” wherein Sonora Jha, Kristen […]
Kim Dower featured in Broadway At The Russian Tea Room!
Date: May 23, 2022
Charles Harper Webb writes about the power dynamics of being in a band and how that influenced his book URSULA LAKE, in CrimeReads!
Date: May 19, 2022
Interlitq’s Californian Poets Interview Charles Harper Webb
Date: May 18, 2022
DG: Your upcoming novel is scheduled to be released in May 2022. Without divulging too much, can you give readers a glimpse into the project and possibly also discuss the […]
AMERICAN BASTARD listed as a top ten Great Summer Read in Pittsburgh Magazine!
Date: May 17, 2022
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 […]
Reviews:
RHINO Magazine features review of Max Sessner’s WHOEVER DROWNED HERE, translated by Francesca Bell!
Date: February 28, 2024
Once upon a time many years ago I taught in Germany, not far from the Harz Mountains, haunt of the Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Heine. To my surprise my students […]
Bookworm for Kids blog recommends TREE SPIRITS (2nd Edition) by Louise Wannier!
Date: February 21, 2024
Today’s read… Tree Spirits by Louise Wannier Today’s read heads into the direction of creativity and imagination. It was presented to me as an unique, nonfiction read…and I’m expecting it […]
MomReadIt blog recommends Louise Wannier’s TREE SPIRITS (2nd Edition) as a “STEM Books to Explore”!
Date: February 21, 2024
I’m back with some new books to explore fun STEM concepts. I really miss having a Discovery Club at my library… maybe I’ll use these as a way to gauge […]
Publishers Weekly features review of Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED!
Date: February 14, 2024
Benedict revisits the terrain of her nonfiction account Map of Hope and Sorrow (with Eyad Awwadawnan) for a complex and heartbreaking story of Syrians living at a refugee camp on the Greek […]
Dear Edna Sloane on Kirkus Review
Date: February 6, 2024
A restless millennial editor seeks connection with a former literary starlet in this epistolary novel. Read more here.
Katie Lawrence describes that Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE both “disturbs and absorbs” in her review for the Library Journal!
Date: January 31, 2024
“Full of eerie atmospheric writing and many unanswered questions, poet Johnson’s fiction debut both disturbs and absorbs. Annika Rose is 17 and living in the middle of nowhere in northern […]
Geoff Page reviews latest collection of essays by David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, for Australian Book Review!
Date: January 24, 2024
Fluid states of being Essays on and by David Mason by Geoff Page American/Australian poet, David Mason, is also a verse novelist, librettist, and essayist. His latest collection of essays, Incarnation and […]
Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: January 17, 2024
Set in 2018, Benedict’s latest follows a group of women who have sought refuge on the Greek island of Samos. The book begins with the frantic rescue of an infant […]
Ominous But Bright: A Conversation with Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue
Date: December 12, 2023
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue have always written about embodiment. Their first poetry collections addressed what fairy tales and other inherited stories say about womanhood, and what they erase. […]
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!
Date: December 12, 2023
The resilient and confessional eighth book from Rich (Gallery of Postcards and Maps) centers on a pressured midterm abortion undergone when a relationship fails. … these poems offer a surreal […]