TEA BY THE SEA by Donna Hemans nominated for Best Book Cover in The Zibby Awards!
Date: August 4, 2021
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News & Reviews
News:
Joan Nockels reads a preview of her upcoming book THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY: THE DEVIL, MY BROTHER AND ME!
Date: August 4, 2021
Joan Nockels Wilson gives a brief reading of her new memoir, coming out in November, for her MFA Program at University of Alaska.
Kim Dower’s poem featured over the weekend in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: August 4, 2021
“Barbara, my childhood piano teacherplayed Chopin like he was whisperinginto her hands, all us kids from the buildinghad our Saturday morning lessons, apartment 6C,our giddy fingers trotting in the key […]
Red Hen Press Awards Named Best Writing Contests of 2021 from Reedsy!
Date: August 2, 2021
Red Hen Press is honored to be included on the Reedsy list of Best Writing Contests of 2021! Reedsy is a leading creative hub for the literary community, and is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reviews:
Anchorage Daily News: Debut novel set in Bristol Bay delivers generations of women’s storytelling
Date: June 4, 2020
Mia Heavener, now living in Anchorage, grew up fishing in Bristol Bay, where she absorbed stories her mother and other women told between tides and over tea. Her lovely debut […]
Anchorage Press: Just to the Side: Reflections on a New Native Novel and Alaska’s Epidemic History
Date: June 4, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Kenyon Review: After Rubén
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Shelf Awareness: Moon Jar review
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]