Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK featured in Vice!
Date: April 7, 2026
After experiencing firsthand the devastation of opioids, Luke Goebel says he wrote his new novel as a form of “direct action against the major dicks that kill us all.” Writing […]
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
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 […]
Reviews:
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
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 […]