Date: June 15, 2022
Books are strong containers that use captivating plots and writing styles to let us feel all kinds of emotions, from horror stories that send chills down our spines to romance […]
Date: June 13, 2022
For book lovers, there’s nothing much better than summer days spent reading, especially if it’s alongside friends who are up for a book club discussion. And while there are numerous […]
Date: June 9, 2022
After AllAnna V.Q. Ross Even when the garlic crop is good,something else is always dying— the peas withering in the afternoon we hopedfor rain instead of watering, the tomatoes
Date: June 9, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons is a clever and funny satire about how personal technology affects modern life. Monica Drake wrote of the book: “A sly, forthright comedy about the […]
Date: June 6, 2022
I had two reasons for enrolling in Pitzer College in 1978: to finally complete my B.A. and to study with poet Bert Meyers, whose poetry had knocked me off my […]
Date: June 6, 2022
Disengaged…a story about my relationship to computers and the internet and social media, and also about my own insecurities with who I am.
Date: June 6, 2022
The first Pride was a riot and this June, our fight persists. This month, we hope you’ll say gay (bi, lesbian, ace, trans, nonbinary, and more) and we’ve got some […]
Date: June 6, 2022
The judge’s remarks: Ned Balbo had this to say about his choice: I’m delighted to select Allison Joseph’s Lexicon as winner of Poetry by the Sea’s Best Book of 2021 […]
Date: June 6, 2022
Today we’d like to introduce you to Kate Gale. Hi Kate, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with […]
Date: June 1, 2022
“The first critical essay I ever wrote was about the movie Dead Poets Society, which came out when I was fourteen. I wasn’t yet writing poetry myself, and I didn’t have any theories about why […]
Date: June 2, 2026
“THE LIFEGUARD by Laura Kasischke is raised to an extraordinary level of literary excellence and is unreservedly recommended.”
Date: June 2, 2026
“Original, deftly crafted, and a simply riveting read from start to finish, author Luke Goebel’s distinctive, character and narrative driven style brings his novel, “Kill Dick”, to an impressive level […]
Date: June 2, 2026
In his latest novel (following An Artist’s Legacy), Ha returns to a 20th-century postwar Vietnam setting, the same setting and time he deployed in earlier fictional works, notably The Demon […]
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 […]
