Caroline Leavitt Interviews SINKING ISLANDS Author Cai Emmons
Date: September 1, 2021
“I met and befriended Cai the way I do almost every new friend: a book comes in the mail and I love it so much, I have to know the […]
Date: September 1, 2021
“I met and befriended Cai the way I do almost every new friend: a book comes in the mail and I love it so much, I have to know the […]
Date: August 31, 2021
Date: August 31, 2021
Date: August 30, 2021
“My mother believes she and my father are failures because their children are no longer “in the church.” The oft-recited proverb, “Train up a child in the way he should […]
Date: August 30, 2021
“Not burned, not fire, but fire’s recourse— its appetite. The 2×4 & 4×4 frame discernible as a skeleton. An American- built trailer, good sized, double wide, out away from city […]
Date: August 25, 2021
Nidhi Ajay of La Femme Absurd, a conversational newsletter, interviewed Managing Editor Kate Gale recently! Check out the insights that Kate provides about publishing and its past, present, and future, […]
Date: August 25, 2021
Deputy Director Tobi Harper and Red Hen author Lily Hoang (Underneath, 2021) were featured and interviewed in this Los Angeles Times article about the future of book publishing during this […]
Date: August 19, 2021
The Libertines trial was announced at 8 a.m. Eastern. By the time Jane’s alarm went off at 4 p.m. Pacific, the media was consumed with it. Drivers stranded with Jane on the […]
Date: August 19, 2021
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Cai Emmons about her new novel, Sinking Islands (Red Hen Press, September 2021), how writing sequel is and isn’t different from writing a standalone novel, the […]
Date: August 12, 2021
Indie presses are releasing some of the best LGBTQ books you could ask for. Words like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer describe how people fall in love, present their […]
Date: October 31, 2019
PIGS takes place on an island on which all the Earth’s trash washes ashore. Four children must collect the trash (plastic, uneaten food, nuclear waste, unwanted advise, ect.) and feed […]
Date: October 22, 2019
There’s a dreaminess to childhood rebellion, the moments when children viscerally understand that the adults don’t know what they are doing. Some of the most memorable moments in European arthouse […]
Date: October 2, 2019
The island, from a distance, looks like almost anything other than what it actually is: a place where the world’s detritus washes up, a place where a handful of children […]
Date: September 15, 2019
In Stoberock’s extraordinarily imaginative novel, four children live on a desert island where all the world’s waste washes ashore. They are tasked with the arduous, abject, and unrelenting work of […]
Date: September 10, 2019
Synopsis: Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a […]
Date: August 28, 2019
In the popular imagination, pigs simply exist to consume and to be consumed. We revile them because they are seen as gluttonous animals, indiscriminate in their pursuit for satiation, and […]
Date: August 1, 2019
Six giant pigs, four kids, and a gang of adults on a magical island maintain a tenuous balance of power until two castaways show up in Johanna Stoberock’s probing literary […]
Date: October 3, 2018
It’s 1923 and 19-year-old Dara falls in love with her best friend, who happens to be a girl. To avoid a bleak, terrifying future in their small town, Dara takes […]
Date: October 3, 2018
Andy Davis from Eco-fiction recently interviewed Cai Emmons author of Weather Woman. Davis asks Emmons about her inspirations and knowledge needed to write about the character in the story. Davis […]
Date: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]