Nikki Moustaki’s EXTREMELY LIGHTWEIGHT GUNS Named Best Book of 2021 by the New York Public Library!
Date: November 29, 2021
News & Reviews
News:
M. Soledad Caballero featured in TuftsNow!
Date: November 23, 2021
When M. Soledad Caballero, AG02, thinks back to her childhood, she remembers not one, but two. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1973, the year a group of military officers seized power from then-president […]
Beth Gilstrap, author of DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES, interviewed for Southern Review of Books
Date: November 23, 2021
Whether reading her beautifully-detailed descriptions of place in the outstanding “What Magic” and “Lake Hartwell, South Carolina” or diving into the hurt but determined mind of Layla in “Still Soft, […]
Thea Prieto, author of FROM THE CAVES, will be at The Neverending Bookshop!
Date: November 18, 2021
The Neverending Bookshop is thrilled to host local author Thea Prieto and her book “From the Caves”. Set in an environmental apocalypse, this lovely book follows four characters as they […]
FROM THE CAVES featured in Literary North’s holiday book gift recommendations!
Date: November 18, 2021
Who knows better what to recommend for holiday reading and gifting than our beloved independent booksellers? We asked several Vermont bookstores what they were recommending to customers this year because […]
Thea Prieto’s IN THE CAVES is a finalist for the American Book Fest 2021 Best Book Awards!
Date: November 18, 2021
NEW MOONS Selected as November Pick in Santa Fe Reporter!
Date: November 17, 2021
Jan Beatty, AMERICAN BASTARD author, interviewed on Skylight Books Podcast!
Date: November 16, 2021
American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents–and continents of desire as Jan Beatty finds her birthfather, […]
MOON JAR Author Didi Jackson Featured by Vanderbilt University!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Sometimes our motivations aren’t what we asked for—they are given to us.” That is the experience of Visiting Assistant Professor of English Didi Jackson, who joined Vanderbilt’s College of Arts […]
Latino Stories Interviews David Campos, author of AMERICAN QUASAR
Date: November 15, 2021
This interview with David Campos is part of a Latino Stories series with Latinx authors. David Campos, a CantoMundo Fellow, is the author of American Quasar (Red Hen Press 2021) […]
Reviews:
Joshua Mensch at Body Literature reviews FRANCESCA BELL’S WHAT SMALL SOUND
Date: December 4, 2023
The book’s title, What Small Sound, refers to the sounds her ears can no longer hear. The title poem takes place in an audiologist’s booth, where clutching for sounds, she thinks […]
River Teeth reviews Alyssa Graybeal’s FLOPPY!
Date: November 28, 2023
Alyssa Graybeal begins her memoir with a list of acronyms for a host of medical conditions, the central one of which is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This inherited disorder affects the ability […]
Independent Book Review reviews YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND by Juliana Lamy!
Date: November 21, 2023
YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND by Juliana Lamy is a steely-eyed collection of short stories centered on Haitian life, from the Dominican Republic to Florida. Check out what Genevieve […]
MER Literary reviews WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell!
Date: November 21, 2023
Dedicated to her mother, the second collection of poems by Francesca Bell, What Small Sound, is a group of ruminations on being mothered and being a mother, and the way the […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s fantasy novel CURSEBREAKERS described as “guiding us into the next age of the fantasy world” by Ahmad Nazir for Gulf News!
Date: November 6, 2023
“In Cursebreakers, Madeleine Nakamura delivers a thought-provoking exploration of curses and blessings all within the framework of a captivating fantasy world. It is a rare gem in the fantasy genre […]
David Nikki Crouse’s I’M HERE and TROUBLE WILL SAVE YOU reviewed by Anchorage Daily News!
Date: October 30, 2023
The publication of two books in one year is either an impressive achievement or a fluke of timing. Whichever the case may be, David Nikki Crouse’s short and shorter fictions […]
Reconciling Life’s Pain & Love: A Review of WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell
Date: October 26, 2023
How can we exist within, and navigate our way through, a world where the deepest beauty is inextricably linked to the darkest ugliness? Francesca Bell’s unflinching second collection of poetry, […]
MAPPING THE SURREAL: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN RICH
Date: October 19, 2023
Susan Rich’s eighth book, Blue Atlas, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (April 2, 2024). Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) and Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for […]
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Date: October 17, 2023
Poets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are followed by […]
Review of Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM featured in Jewish Book Council!
Date: October 11, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]