Martha Cooley in conversation with LARB on her novel BUY ME LOVE!
Date: August 2, 2021
This is not a spoiler, I promise it isn’t, only just consider for a moment: Say you buy a lottery ticket — have you ever? — say you do, just […]
News & Reviews
News:
Kristen Young’s SUBDUCTION included in Book Riot’s #TheNewLatinBoom!
Date: August 2, 2021
Latin American literature travels frequently in its original form, in translation, and through the presence of writers who don’t stay put. In the U.S., works by Latin American writers make their way […]
Kim Dower’s poetry featured in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: July 30, 2021
“Wake up thinking it’s trash dayso I move the cans out to the fronteven though it’s pouring. Back in,make extra strong coffee,read the story in the paperabout the 400-pound bear […]
SINKING ISLANDS author Cai Emmons interviewed on KBOO!
Date: July 29, 2021
On today’s show, we welcome two Oregon-based writers — Suzy Vitello and Cai Emmons — who have published recent novels, speculative fiction, focused on climate change, its effects on the environment and those of […]
When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors, Including Aimee Liu, Talk About Terrible Timing
Date: July 28, 2021
Sarah Ramey’s first book was supposed to be a very big deal. Her publishers expected The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness to be a runaway best seller.”We had a huge publicity […]
If It Isn’t Broken: A Conversation between Francesca Bell & Justine Bateman
Date: July 28, 2021
JUSTINE BATEMAN HAS LIVED in the public eye for nearly 40 years. During those years, she’s been a lot of things — actress, writer, producer, director, designer, pilot, wife, mother […]
Kristen Millares Young & Khalisa Rae featured in PANK Magazine’s latest issue with new pieces!
Date: July 26, 2021
PANK Magazine’s just released their 16th issue, which includes a Non Fiction piece titled Fathers Day written by Kristen Millares Young and poetry by Khalisa Rae titled Livestock. Kristen Millares […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE author Dariel Suarez interviewed by Illianna Gonzalez-Soto in Latinx in Publishing!
Date: July 21, 2021
Dariel Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1997. His debut story collection, A Kind of Solitude,received the 2017 Spokane Prize […]
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
Date: July 21, 2021
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Florencia Ramirez, author of EAT LESS WATER, interviewed on KCRW!
Date: July 21, 2021
Water is part of nearly every aspect of the farm-to-table supply chain. So how can people eat food that takes less water to grow, clean and prepare? Florencia Ramirez, author […]
Reviews:
Katie Lawrence describes that Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE both “disturbs and absorbs” in her review for the Library Journal!
Date: January 31, 2024
“Full of eerie atmospheric writing and many unanswered questions, poet Johnson’s fiction debut both disturbs and absorbs. Annika Rose is 17 and living in the middle of nowhere in northern […]
Geoff Page reviews latest collection of essays by David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, for Australian Book Review!
Date: January 24, 2024
Fluid states of being Essays on and by David Mason by Geoff Page American/Australian poet, David Mason, is also a verse novelist, librettist, and essayist. His latest collection of essays, Incarnation and […]
Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: January 17, 2024
Set in 2018, Benedict’s latest follows a group of women who have sought refuge on the Greek island of Samos. The book begins with the frantic rescue of an infant […]
Ominous But Bright: A Conversation with Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue
Date: December 12, 2023
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue have always written about embodiment. Their first poetry collections addressed what fairy tales and other inherited stories say about womanhood, and what they erase. […]
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!
Date: December 12, 2023
The resilient and confessional eighth book from Rich (Gallery of Postcards and Maps) centers on a pressured midterm abortion undergone when a relationship fails. … these poems offer a surreal […]
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 […]