Tea by the Sea featured in OPRAH Magazine!
Date: January 12, 2021
O, the Oprah Magazine, features the Rebel Women’s Lit Caribbean Reader Awards, including Donna Hemans’s Tea by the Sea, which won the award for Best Fiction!
News & Reviews
News:
Sadie Hoagland featured in Scary Mommy!
Date: January 11, 2021
When my daughter got into Berenstain bears, it was all my fault. I remembered loving the series, associating them with my old school library and a particular comfort there. So I bought her […]
Jen Risher on Fit for Joy: Demystifying Wealth & Inspiring to Us to Connect
Date: January 11, 2021
When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of […]
540 West Main added THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman to their list of Essential Readings of 2021!
Date: January 7, 2021
540WMain’s Essential Reading List (Books You Must Read) in 2021 Every year we love sharing the books that inspire our mission and programming. One of the first steps to dismantling […]
Sebastian Matthews featured on What Matters Most podcast!
Date: January 4, 2021
This was a deeply engaging conversation with author and poet Sebastian Matthews. He survived a terrible head-on collision and wrote a wonderful book called Beyond Repair about his experience. We went into […]
HER SISTER’S TATTOO (Ellen Meeropol) one of ten books you might’ve missed in 2020 from OOLA!
Date: January 4, 2021
Even with all the extra “free time” sheltering in place gave us this year, there was a lot going on. Between learning how to work from home, helping kids with virtual learning, […]
Ellen Meeropol’s HER SISTER’S TATTOO on list of best books and complimentary TV shows of 2020.
Date: January 4, 2021
Everyone loves a good list and there are no shortage of book recommendations from celebrities, media outlets and booksellers. I love looking at my overcrowded shelves and this year I […]
TEA BY THE SEA wins Best Novel for the Caribbean Readers’ Award at Rebel Women Lit!
Date: January 4, 2021
Over 1800 people readers, we are happy to announce the winners for the Inaugural Caribbean Readers’ Award! The Caribbean Readers’ Award recognizes outstanding works in Caribbean Literature. The prize is […]
Anchorage Daily News adds three Boreal books to their favorite list of 2020!
Date: January 4, 2021
Boreal, an imprint of Red Hen Press is dedicated to northern literature. Mia Heavener [UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF], Mary Odden [MOSTLY WATER: REFLECTIONS RURAL AND NORTH], and Thomas McGuire [STELLER’S ORCHID] […]
TEA BY THE SEA featured in Fordham Magazine!
Date: January 4, 2021
In her long-awaited second novel, Donna Hemans, the author of River Woman (2002), weaves a compelling tale of longing—to belong, to find family and a sense of home, to be fulfilled, and […]
Reviews:
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir
Date: August 31, 2020
Reading Deborah Lott’s memoir of her dysfunctional upbringing feels like the literary equivalent of rubbernecking: her childhood was a series of trainwrecks, but somehow you can’t stop turning around to watch. […]
High Skies
Date: August 31, 2020
Daugherty’s engrossing latest (after the collection American Originals) focuses on the small community of Midland, Tex., in the late 1950s as it reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school […]
Publishers Weekly Review: Unseen City by Amy Shearn
Date: August 19, 2020
Shearn’s luminous latest (after The Mermaid from Brooklyn) follows a self-avowed librarian spinster; a man researching the history of his father’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn, home; and the ghost of an orphaned […]
A Point of Change
Date: August 17, 2020
Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy gives readers a portrait of a young mother and fledgling anthropologist caught in a remote outpost in the midst of World War Two. Two of Liu’s three previous […]
EL GRUÑIDO QUIETO DE LOS CERDOS: LA ALEGORÍA POSMODERNA DE JOHANNA STOBEROCK. ELIDIO LA TORRE LAGARES
Date: August 10, 2020
En la novela Cerdos, de Johanna Stoberock, hay una isla innombrada en algún mar desconocido, cuatro niños se dan a la tarea de recoger la basura que llega a la orilla […]
Each Story is a Kaleidoscope in ‘Boy Oh Boy’
Date: August 3, 2020
The stories in Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss are playful, surreal, sometimes dark, and always magical. This wonderful collection of inventive queer fabulist stories and flash fictions won the 2018 Grace […]
Past as Place in Subduction
Date: July 30, 2020
In Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction, one of the main characters, Peter, a member of the Makah tribe, talks about the past as a physical place that can hold you. In the […]
Human Touch: Sex & Taipei City by Yu-Han Chao
Date: July 29, 2020
The Taipei of Yu-Han Chao’s debut story collection Sex & Taipei City both bustles and glistens. It’s a city of industry and aspiration—skyscrapers and metro trains, prep schools and department stores. Yet […]
Review: Open the Dark by Marie Tozier
Date: July 27, 2020
Marie Tozier’s new book, Open the Dark, is a lyrical guide to the life in Northwest Alaska experienced by the Iñupiaq poet and her family. It touches on themes that can be […]
The Fragile Human: A Review Of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone And Last West, Roadsongs For Dorothea Lange
Date: July 20, 2020
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the language of fault, rift and fracture as her […]