Date: October 26, 2021
Renowned Madison County author, poet and multihyphenate Keith Flynn recently published his latest book, the product of more than eight years worth of interviews. Keith Flynn’s “Prosperity Gospel: The Portraits […]
Date: October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Who, a reader might ask, is Patrice Staiger, whose haunting epigram “This story begins at an impasse, since I am writing to you as someone who was never born?” prefaces […]
Date: October 19, 2021
It was while my family and I were living in Paris in the mid-1950s that I decided to become a poet. I wrote my first poem there, moved by the […]
Date: October 19, 2021
Date: October 18, 2021
I met Martha Cooley in 1999 when, as a then-visiting writer in the Bennington MFA program, she gave a series of lectures, one of which covered Milan Kundera. Martha joined […]
Date: October 14, 2021
As one expects from stories published by Red Hen Press’s Kate Gale, monadnock of the LA literary publishing scene for {undisclosed} years now, there is a weird and unsettling tension […]
Date: October 11, 2021
In Oregon author Cai Emmons’ 2018 novel, Weather Woman, an atmospheric scientist discovers that she is capable of controlling the elements she’s long studied: She can shut down a thunderstorm, […]
Date: October 4, 2021
Beth Gilstrap’s second story collection, Deadheading, won the 2019 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Award and publishes tomorrow. It includes stories Leesa Cross-Smith characterizes as “little gardens—the words blooming, the […]
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
Date: April 17, 2025
“Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian […]
Date: April 15, 2025
Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Cynthia Hogue’s poetry collection instead, it is dark is reviewed by Hugh Martin in War, Literature & the Arts Journal. Martin praises the book as one that “probes this darkness […]
Date: April 2, 2025
Angel Eye, the second book in Madeleine Nakamura’s series, has received a Kirkus Starred Review. “Nakamura has knocked it out of the park once again here… Readers will be thrilled […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is highlighted in Cole Reviews. “City of Smoke and Sea is a quick yet immersive read, packed with strong character development and world-building. […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World is reviewed by Nanore Barsoumian in the Armenian Weekly. “We surrender to its fabled beauty, letting Kricorian’s storytelling dazzle while extracting meaning […]
Date: April 1, 2025
I have a bad habit when reading books – always starting by opening the last page and reading the last line, then closing the book to see what my mind […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Andrew Lam’s Stories from the Edge of the Sea is reviewed by Paul Christiansen in Saigoneer, an English-language publication based in Saigon. The review highlights Lam’s focus on “desire, generational […]
