Date: August 30, 2021
“My mother believes she and my father are failures because their children are no longer “in the church.” The oft-recited proverb, “Train up a child in the way he should […]
Date: August 30, 2021
“Not burned, not fire, but fire’s recourse— its appetite. The 2×4 & 4×4 frame discernible as a skeleton. An American- built trailer, good sized, double wide, out away from city […]
Date: August 25, 2021
Nidhi Ajay of La Femme Absurd, a conversational newsletter, interviewed Managing Editor Kate Gale recently! Check out the insights that Kate provides about publishing and its past, present, and future, […]
Date: August 25, 2021
Deputy Director Tobi Harper and Red Hen author Lily Hoang (Underneath, 2021) were featured and interviewed in this Los Angeles Times article about the future of book publishing during this […]
Date: August 19, 2021
The Libertines trial was announced at 8 a.m. Eastern. By the time Jane’s alarm went off at 4 p.m. Pacific, the media was consumed with it. Drivers stranded with Jane on the […]
Date: August 19, 2021
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Cai Emmons about her new novel, Sinking Islands (Red Hen Press, September 2021), how writing sequel is and isn’t different from writing a standalone novel, the […]
Date: August 12, 2021
Indie presses are releasing some of the best LGBTQ books you could ask for. Words like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer describe how people fall in love, present their […]
Date: August 11, 2021
Jeff Alessandrelli-With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One new release that I hope gets […]
Date: August 5, 2021
‘The south is a living breathing thing in this book. it’s a personality.’ Really excited to have American poet, Khalisa Rae, join me for series two, episode two!
Date: August 4, 2021
Welcome to The Zibby Awards, a celebration of the often overlooked parts of a book and the team behind it. See all the nominations here!
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
