A spotlight on WEATHER WOMAN and SINKING ISLANDS by Eugene Weekly’s Slant column!
Date: September 7, 2021
News & Reviews
News:
Jennifer Risher talks about her book WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH and her #HalfMyDAF challenge in a Q&A with the National Center for Family Philanthropy
Date: September 7, 2021
Jen Risher is the author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth, and co-founded the #HalfMyDAF initiative in response to the pandemic. In this blog, Jen shares her […]
Ellen Meeropol writes about Cai Emmons’ astonishing journey after ALS diagnosis
Date: September 7, 2021
Novelists are, by definition, imaginative people, but there are a limited number of ways to promote a new novel. We rely primarily on readings and events to transform our words […]
“A LITTLE ARRHYTHMIC BLIP”: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Features an Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap’s DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES
Date: September 1, 2021
Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Beth Gilstrap’s forthcoming collection Deadheading and Other Stories. Set in the Carolinas, Gilstrap’s fiction explores questions of gender, class, and geography, offering […]
Jaye Viner Interviewed by Authors Answer
Date: September 1, 2021
Born a missionary kid in Kobe, Japan, and homeschooled on the American Great Plains as part of an evangelical community, Jaye Viner straddles many worlds and too many personal interests. […]
Character Interview: Jane from JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner Provides Interview
Date: September 1, 2021
Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended when […]
Jaye Viner Features Novel JANE OF BATTERY PARK in Crime Reads Listicle “8 Thrillers About Women Breaking Free and Taking Charge”
Date: September 1, 2021
In storytelling, we are in the middle of what I call the ‘age of the “strong woman” character’. If asked, probably everyone has a slightly different idea of what exactly […]
Crime Reads Lists Jaye Viner’s JANE OF BATTERY PARK for 10 Books Coming Out This Week!
Date: September 1, 2021
Crime Reads posted their picks for what books to look out for on their publication date, and add to their TBR pile!
The Writer’s Almanac features Kim Dower’s Poem from A SLICE OF MOON
Date: September 1, 2021
“…and that’s only the beginning. I hear other junk food is at risk: brownies, pastries, name it, they’re removing it, the only chance fifth graders have at happiness.”
Pittsburgh City Paper features M. Soledad Caballero, author of I WAS A BELL
Date: September 1, 2021
“Calling America home comes with its own host of terrors for immigrants, especially those fleeing their countries of origin. From being referred to with often derogatory terminology to having to […]
Reviews:
REFUGEE by Pamela Uschuk reviewed in Rain Taxi
Date: August 22, 2022
“’So you think that you can live remote / from city streets paved with bullet casings, / mass shootings in churches, refugee mothers in cages,’ Pamela Uschuk questions in ‘A […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Emily Wall’s BREAKING INTO AIR and Marybeth Holleman’s TENDER GRAVITY!
Date: August 21, 2022
Boreal Books, founded and edited by Peggy Shumaker, a former Alaska writer laureate, has since 2008 been publishing exemplary poetry and prose by Alaskans. This summer it’s brought forth two […]
Booktrib reviews MONKEY BUSINESS by Carleton Eastlake
Date: August 9, 2022
“Inside their heads, humans are caught in a civil war between the little gleam of intelligence they want to believe is them and the animal which that spark of intelligence evolved to […]
Ruyan Meng’s ONLY THE CAT KNOWS reviewed in Asian Review of Books
Date: August 8, 2022
“Set in rural China during the 1970s, Ruyan Meng’s debut novel Only the Cat Knows is told from the point of view of a young factory worker married to a woman who […]
ONLY THE CAT KNOWS by Ruyan Meng reviewed in Soapberry Review!
Date: August 4, 2022
“A bicycle on which to commute to work. A sewing machine with which to sew new clothes. Eggs, milk, and meat to cure his children of malnutrition. These are a […]
New Criterion reviews THE DISCARDED LIFE by Adam Kirsch!
Date: August 3, 2022
The Discarded Life: Poems, by Adam Kirsch (Red Hen): “Do details matter?” asks the poet Adam Kirsch in his new collection The Discarded Life—and even if they don’t, the perspicuity […]
Readers’ Favorite calls Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE “a treasure trove of intelligent musings”!
Date: August 3, 2022
Diane Thiel’s much-awaited anthology of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, is worth the wait. This collection is divided into four parts, each touching on a particular subject or idea that […]
Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed on The Line Break!
Date: July 21, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy, and Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022) is her third collection of poems. I purchased […]
‘Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE – Poems of Beauty & Anger’ A Review by Joseph Ross
Date: July 21, 2022
Pamela Uschuk is, in my view, one of our country’s best poets. Her new book, REFUGEE, shows precisely why. Her poems rise up from careful craft, scattering beauty, detailed descriptions, merged […]
‘Technology and Human Connection’ a Review Of I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS
Date: July 21, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons tells the story of a damaged man trying to finish his novel as he wades through divorce, an unfulfilling work life, and complex […]