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:
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT reviewed in the Australian Book Review!
Date: October 31, 2022
Poet, essayist, and librettist David Mason grew up in Washington State, worked for many years in Colorado (where he became the state’s poet laureate) and a couple of years ago […]
Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND on Shelf Awareness’ Best Book List!
Date: October 20, 2022
Somewhere in the history of literature, the world decided that poetry was “serious.” But with I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriendas evidence, poet Ron Koertge (Sex World; Now Playing: Stoner & […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME Featured in Shelf Unbound
Date: October 17, 2022
Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s debut story collection, captures the essences of surviving in a life set […]
Independent Book Review Reviews COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE by Carlos Allende!
Date: October 17, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is Carlos Allende’s Quill Prize-winning novel from Red Hen Press. Readers will embark on a riotous, ribald, and somehow still laughter-inducing ride, from a terrible first date […]
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in latest edition of The New York Review of Books
Date: October 3, 2022
“Hell,” wrote Percy Shelley in 1819, “is a city much like London.” A hundred and twenty years later Bertolt Brecht, who fled the Nazis for Santa Monica, volunteered a different […]
Coco Picard’s Healing Circle featured in Fiction Roundup by LitReactor
Date: September 28, 2022
The Healing Circle by Coco Picard is a lyrical novel—written in sketches and short chapters that feel like jabs—about dying, and much more, happening across past and present timelines, dipping in […]
Dennis Must’s MACLEISH SQ. reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: September 26, 2022
“The novel’s surreal atmosphere is grounded by mundane details, as of the hot tea that John offers Eli upon his arrival, and the rabbit’s foot charm dangling from the rearview […]
LARB Reviews Coco Picard’s THE HEALING CIRCLE
Date: September 17, 2022
HOPE, WHEN HELD past the point of reason, is liable to transform into a certain kind of absurdity. Over the course of The Healing Circle — the latest novel from writer, artist, […]
Ellen Meeropol’s THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT reviewed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: September 12, 2022
Northampton author Ellen Meeropol used her first four novels to explore how a range of social and political issues, from the rise of the U.S. security state in the aftermath […]
A Review of Refugee by Pamela Uschuk in the North American Review
Date: September 12, 2022
“Since all around us refugees seem to be fleeing from something, one must ask from what they themselves flee—and that it’s hard to imagine there is anywhere left one can go […]