An essay by Luke Goebel featured in Literary Hub!
Date: April 28, 2026
On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.) Luke Goebel Considers the Evolution of a Novel, and a Relationship.
News & Reviews
News:
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE Appeared in Literary Hub!
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 […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE featured in The Common
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 […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE appeared in A Mighty Blaze special interview
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.
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE featured in largehearted boy!
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 […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, interviewed by Full Stop!
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 […]
Luke Goebel describes his new novel, Kill Dick, in CrimeReads!
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 […]
Luke Goebel celebrates the release of his novel, KILL DICK, with Flaunt Magazine!
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.
Luke Goebel shares his KILL DICK playlist with Largehearted Boy!
Date: April 15, 2026
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel KILL DICK.
Andrew Lam reads excerpts from STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA on GBH Forum Network!
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 […]
Reviews:
As It Ought to Be” raves about “River Electric With Light”!”
Date: March 16, 2016
The editor describes the book as "enigmatic, transversive, transformative," and so beautifully writes that there is "water–and the life water ensures–running through this book." Thanks for the wonderful words of […]
Dean Kostos: This is Not a Skyscraper
Date: February 16, 2016
"An interview with Dean Kostos about the power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island." The online magazine Guernica contucted an interview with author Dean Kostos as well […]
Fogged Clarity Reviews Dean Kostos’s Latest Collection of Poetry
Date: February 9, 2016
The Literary journal Fogged Clarity has beautifully reviewed Dean Kostos's latest collection of poetry This Is Not a Skyscaper. "Like New York itself, with its carefully plotted grid of streets […]
The Yellow Door” Celebrated by Nichi Bei!”
Date: January 20, 2016
"Journey through a post-war Japanese American landscape with Amy Uyematsu as she defines race, unpacks the family incarceration experience and discovers a confluence with Japanese culture in “The Yellow Door,” […]
On Birds of Paradise Lost” by Andrew Lam”
Date: January 12, 2016
"Just as Lam connects with and penetrates each persona, so too each persona achieves a moment that bridges or leaps the gap between our two cultures, forever wedded by the […]
When the World Breaks Open is a hit with Kirkus Reviews!
Date: December 7, 2015
The first review for Seema Reza’s memoir When the World Breaks Open is live! Kirkus Review praises Reza for her “self-lacerating honesty” and that she “exercises literary license and often […]
Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules” is featured on Buzzfeed! “
Date: December 7, 2015
Arianna Rebolini, writer for Buzzfeed, created a list of books that will help the public understand mental disorders and illnesses. Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules is […]
Blotterature Celebrates The Crawford County Sketchbook”!”
Date: December 3, 2015
Called a "must read for all of those fans of Southern Gothic, great storylines, nostalgia, and a tinge of weirdness," this is one book you won't want to miss. Read […]
For this month’s Southwest Book Review, Mary Sojourner spoke with author Mark Rozema about his memoir Road Trip.””
Date: November 20, 2015
Mary Sojourner, from KNAU, interviews Mark Rozema and discusses his first memoir, Road Trip. She brings up the focus Road Trip has on grace and the gift of being in […]
Brad Wethern’s Kids in the Wind” leaves an impression on Cleaver Magazine!”
Date: November 16, 2015
Rachael Tague, of Cleaver Magazine, recently reviewed Brad Wethern's Kids in the Wind. She comments on how Wethern seems to blend the lines between imagination and reality by saying his […]