Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK featured in Alta!
Date: April 6, 2026
In Brentwood, college dropout Susie sinks into lethargy, surrounded by her family’s riches, aided by a pill habit. But her life of leisure and luxury comes to a fast halt […]
News & Reviews
News:
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK appeared in Crime Fiction Lover!
Date: April 6, 2026
A teenage addict and an ex-professor running a rehab scam find common ground in Luke Goebel’s dark and satirical literary thriller Kill Dick, out on 14 April. Susie Vogelman is […]
Luke Goebel KILL DICK featured in ART NEWS
Date: April 6, 2026
Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick, Luke Goebel’s debut. This unhinged work of bicoastal art world satire imagines Sackler-family revenge from the vantage of an NYU […]
Read This Insightful Note From Helen Benedict
Date: April 2, 2026
Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early […]
Amy Pence featured in Writer’s Digest!
Date: March 31, 2026
Author Amy Pence shares her “silver linings playbook” to publishing past a certain age and how being a late-bloomer can be a plus.
David Eggleton’s poem, THE NAVIGATORS, from his collection, LIFTING THE ISLAND, selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2025!
Date: March 31, 2026
David Eggleton is a poet of Papālagi, Rotuman and Tongan descent, with ancestral connections to the villages of Motusa and Ma’ufanga. He lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin and was the New […]
Rebecca Chace’s TALKING TO THE WOLF listed in Oldster Magazine!
Date: March 25, 2026
This is Rebecca Chace’s fifth book and third novel, and her first that isn’t with a Big Five publisher. “At a time that is not easy for publishing literary fiction […]
Kristen Millares Young interviewed on Seattle City of Literature!
Date: March 24, 2026
Tune in for an exclusive inside look at Kristen Millares Young’s upcoming memoir, DESIRE LINES!
New poetry from David Mason featured in Narrative Magazine!
Date: March 24, 2026
David Mason, former poet laureate of Colorado, is the author of numerous books, including Cold Fire (Red Hen, 2026), The Sound: New and Selected Poems, Ludlow: A Verse Novel, and […]
MER Bookshelf – March 2026
Date: March 19, 2026
In this rich new collection, Molly Fisk braids together the ordinary tasks of love and work in 1875, a century we’ve almost forgotten but whose human concerns are universal and […]
Reviews:
Put This On, Please is Fun and Thought-provoking””
Date: April 7, 2014
William Trowbridge's new poetry collection, Put This On, Please, is "fun, approachable and thought-provoking," according to Shelf Awareness. "Trowbridge succeeds–making readers smile while plumbing something deeper than a giggle." Read […]
Dennis Must’s New Fantastical Novel
Date: April 7, 2014
Shelf Awareness calls Dennis Must's latest work, The World's Smallest Bible, perfect for fans of historical fiction. Check out the full review
The Meaning of Names is Beautifully colored prose””
Date: April 7, 2014
The Lincoln Journal Star recently reviewed Karen Shoemaker's The Meaning of Names, praising its unique blend of family stories and historical research. “Shoemaker writes with even, rhythmic, beautifully colored prose… […]
Sea Salt Is Praised by Angle
Date: April 2, 2014
David Mason's recent collection of poems, Sea Salt, was recently reviewed by Andrew Frisardi in the Spring/Summer edition of Angle. Frisardi praised Mason's lyric mastery: "Mason has mastered a fluid […]
Chopper! Chopper! is Dramatic and Bold””
Date: March 27, 2014
In a review of Veronica Reyes' Chopper! Chopper!, the poetry collection gets lauded as an "intimate portrait of her East L.A. neighborhood, family and local haunts with daring rhythm and […]
Gary Geddes Compared to Politico-poet Greats
Date: March 27, 2014
George Elliot Clarke of The Chronicle Herald calls Gary Geddes "proudly a political poet, though one whose honed lyrics ask for introspection and contemplation," and compares him to other celebrated […]
Patter, the most important collection of poetry published this year””
Date: March 27, 2014
Luke Fiddler of The Economy Magazine gives a glowing review to Douglas Kearney's new book, Patter. He states, "By all measures, Patter scrapes vertiginous heights; it’s a magisterial study of […]
Dennis Must is Beyond Ordinary
Date: March 27, 2014
Dactyl Review examines The World's Smallest Bible, the new novel by Dennis Must, calling him a "searching writer, able to transcribe madness and instability, the wrack of obsession and the […]
Jessica Piazza’s Contemporary Collection
Date: March 27, 2014
Timothy Otte of Hazel and Wren recently praised Jessica Piazza's Interrobang as "free flowing and contemporary, yet formally precise, employing the same linguistic tricks that mark sonnets written by the […]
Impressive Review for Pause, Traveler
Date: March 6, 2014
Pause, Traveler by Erin Couglin Hollowell was recently reviewed by Kris Bigalk from Poetry Northwest, calling it impressive with "elements of story and song, evoked through a uniquely contemporary lens." […]