Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, revealed not only what it was like to be a woman at war, but the […]
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s The Soldier’s House, recommended by Issue 29 contributor Terese Svoboda In The Soldier’s House, Jimmy Donnell, a dazed PTSD-suffering vet, takes in the family of his dead Iraqi translator, including Tariq, the […]
Date: April 27, 2026
A Mighty Blaze Special Interview presents Jade Danelian with Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, LIVE on April 15 at 4:00 PM ET.
Date: April 27, 2026
“Music runs throughout The Soldier’s House as this plot unfolds, played on a little cassette recorder, the car radio, on an iPod (remember those?), or simply in the heads of […]
Date: April 27, 2026
Helen Benedict is no stranger to writing raw, careful prose about deep, complex characters. Her newest novel, The Soldier’s House, lives up to that legacy as it tells the story of […]
Date: April 16, 2026
To put it plainly, we are not shocked anymore. Not really, not by the current delivery mechanisms that have risen to fill our feeds, our media intakes, etc. We simulate […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Last night, FLAUNT and Luke Goebel celebrated the release of his novel Kill Dick with an intimate gathering at Genghis Cohen Los Angeles.
Date: April 15, 2026
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel KILL DICK.
Date: April 15, 2026
Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author who has written about the overseas Vietnamese experience. He visited Boston’s Ford Hall Forum to discuss his latest collection, “Stories from the Edge […]
Date: April 15, 2026
In 2018, while working as a high school teacher in Oakland, Alan Chazaro would often bike around at night and stargaze by the city’s largest lake. He began to write […]
Date: June 2, 2026
What wilderness does best, it does in Alaska. With her temporal gaze fixed on how immense cold and wind , water and time weather a virginal northern landscape, Susan Campbell’s […]
Date: May 28, 2026
“War is never over, even when the fighting stops […] THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE brings that reality to life.”
Date: May 28, 2026
It’s important to understand what this novel is, and conversely, what it is not. It does not sanitize the treatment of prisoners with cheerful escape plots. While Khang forms genuine […]
Date: May 28, 2026
The past creeps in and settles like a chill mist upon the reader while experiencing Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester. Yet a sharp little ringing, a tiny bell, […]
Date: May 21, 2026
Fisk’s novel in verse offers a pastoral meditation on American frontier life that explores domesticity, self-discovery, and nature. Newlyweds and aspiring homesteaders Phoebe and Miles Imlay travel for 23 days […]
Date: May 14, 2026
Elise Paschen’s sixth book of poetry, Blood Wolf Moon, weaves together heritage, language and personal narrative into a deeply moving, thoughtful collection of poems. “I was/ born in the month […]
Date: May 5, 2026
William Archila’s first two collections The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press, 2009) and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology (Red Hen Press, 2015), each, in their own way, translate the U.S. immigrant experience through […]
Date: April 28, 2026
As we continue to live through a 24-hour news cycle that moves at breakneck speed from one international conflict to the next, the Iraq War can feel like a distant […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is not a novel that seeks to comfort its reader. Instead, it draws you into a world stripped of illusion, where survival […]
Date: April 15, 2026
Molly Fisk takes up the challenge with, Walking Wheel, a narrative suite from the decorated California poet which functions as a novel-in-verse. Set in the frontier country of the California-Oregon […]
