Date: April 23, 2025
Andrew Lam is interviewed in Metro Silicon Valley’s article, “A Half-Century After Saigon’s Fall, the Diaspora Writes On.” In the conversation, Lam reflects on how writing has been a therapeutic […]
Date: April 22, 2025
by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty and associate programs director On the eve of the Kentucky Book Festival last November, a novelist friend came up to me at the writer’s reception […]
Date: April 17, 2025
“There’s a moment that may surprise you reading Percival Everett’s novel James, a reimagining of Huck Finn’s Black sidekick and their treacherous journey to freedom. It’s the moment when you take a break […]
Date: April 15, 2025
Red Hen Press authors Clarence Major and April Ossmann were featured on the April 2, 2025 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour. Both authors discussed their latest Red […]
Date: April 15, 2025
After “Killers of the Flower Moon” By Elise Paschen Lily Gladstone confides she wore my great grandmother Eliza’s blankets in three scenes. I don’t remember my great grandmother, though in a […]
Date: April 15, 2025
In 1988, photojournalist and photo editor Aline Manoukian captured an image of a Palestinian militiaman holding a white kitten in Lebanon’s Burj Al Barajneh refugee camp. That photo would go […]
Date: April 15, 2025
Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, is the author of four novels about post- genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was […]
Date: April 10, 2025
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas about her new position and the exciting plans she has in the works during […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Nancy Kricorian is featured in Thrive, the project of the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA). In the piece, she reflects on her life philosophy and explores her connection to Armenian […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Two poems by William Archila from his collection Canícula/Dog Days, “Radio” and “Guayaberas,” along with their Spanish translations by Mario Zetino, are featured in the latest issue of the Los […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Set in Havana, Cuba, The Playwright’s House is an expansive yet intimate novel about a young lawyer Serguey and his family when their father Felipe, a notable theater director, is detained by […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
