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:
F(r)iction Lit gives ANIMAL WIFE a glowing review!
Date: October 28, 2020
What captivated me most of all was how Lara Ehrlich writes her characters. The stories feature women at different stages of life or different situations, and yet they feel familiar. […]
Thanks for the shoutout World Wide Work!
Date: October 22, 2020
UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF by Mia C. Heavener, SUBDUCTION by Kristen Millares Young, and SUMMER OF THE CICADAS by Chelsea Catherine were all featured on the newsletter World Wide Work: Books, […]
LA Review of Books analyzes and reviews Tess Taylor’s thoughtful works
Date: October 19, 2020
“The poems in Rift Zone exist in a moment before rupture, an overhang of historic land fractured by histories revised and erased. Taylor magnifies these tensions when she recalls the instabilities of […]
Joshua Rivkin’s “Suitor” reviewed and adored by 15 Bytes!
Date: October 12, 2020
“Poetry is Joshua Rivkin’s art, but he approaches it with the keen observational powers of a scientist. Children learn to model themselves after their parents, but will often closely watch […]
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by River Teeth Journal.
Date: October 11, 2020
“Perhaps the sheer amount of time devoted to the work is part of the magic. McClanahan’s essays were written in the 2000s, most in and around 9/11, when she and her husband decided […]
Marie Tozier’s OPEN THE DARK receives great praise in this article by Anchorage Daily News!
Date: October 11, 2020
These deceptively simple poems enlarge with repeated readings; they unfold greater meaning each time and leave a reader with much to contemplate about identity, cultures, generational wisdom, and values… Click […]
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Kenyon Review
Date: October 10, 2020
The subtitle “A Memoir in Essays” suggests that this memoir will follow a nontraditional narrative, and its unexpected movements are part of the reward. The narrative rises and falls with […]
Lara Ehrlich’s ANIMAL WIFE reviewed by Metapsychology Online Reviews.
Date: October 8, 2020
“There is this kind of appeal for readers in the highly recommended Animal Wife, Red Hen Press’s Fiction Award winner, with its fresh take on the mythopoeic in relation to […]
[REVIEW] Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich
Date: September 23, 2020
The cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection, Animal Wife, might make you scream. On it, a quintessential 1950’s housewife, dressed in a frilly apron and with a bow in […]
Midwest Book Review: Tea by the Sea
Date: September 21, 2020
A deftly crafted and entertaining work of impressive literary nuance, “Tea by the Sea” by Donna Hemans is an extraordinary, original, and inherently fascinating novel that is especially and unreservedly […]