Date: May 5, 2026
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,April 26, 2026. This list is based […]
Date: May 5, 2026
Writer and climate change activist Florencia Ramirez takes us shopping for groceries and invites us into her home to share practical tips about how to reduce your kitchen’s carbon footprint […]
Date: May 5, 2026
Susie Vogelman, a protagonist who initially sees herself as “a failed attempt at form,” finds definition through outrage. Her roommate has overdosed on Oxycontin, causing Susie to retreat to Los […]
Date: April 29, 2026
April Ossmann reads poems NON-PARTISAN and STATE OF THE UNION AUBADE from her latest poetry collection WE at the Vermont House of Representatives.
Date: April 28, 2026
Goebel, a recovering addict with a long rap sheet of alcohol- and drug-related arrests, spent years living in cars, on street corners and in motels in San Francisco’s North Beach […]
Date: April 28, 2026
Ten years and four drafts ago, Luke Goebel sat down to channel all the sorrow and anger he felt about the state of the nation, the corruption he believed seeped […]
Date: April 28, 2026
Luke Goebel doesn’t enter my Zoom call, “KILL DICK” does. It’s a sensible stone in the path for an all-out burst of promotion that has included graffiti in Los Angeles, […]
Date: April 28, 2026
On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.) Luke Goebel Considers the Evolution of a Novel, and a Relationship.
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, revealed not only what it was like to be a woman at war, but the […]
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s The Soldier’s House, recommended by Issue 29 contributor Terese Svoboda In The Soldier’s House, Jimmy Donnell, a dazed PTSD-suffering vet, takes in the family of his dead Iraqi translator, including Tariq, the […]
Date: October 19, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Date: October 19, 2026
A delightful aspect of historical fiction is the way the present gives way to the past, shifting our knowledge of the modern world into what it once was. In Marivi […]
Date: October 19, 2026
In 2003, the United States attacked Iraq, ostensibly to rid the country of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The war destabilized the Middle East and resulted in Hussein’s death […]
Date: October 15, 2026
In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story […]
Date: October 7, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Date: October 1, 2026
Date: October 1, 2026
In this hands-on manifesto, Ramirez, host of The Kitchen Activist podcast and author of Eat Less Water, encourages readers to prepare meals in ways that lower food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Explaining that […]
Date: October 1, 2026
The journey into The Opposites Game enters the sometime surreal, sometime witty, sometime irreverent world of Brendan Constantine. All is not joy as the dark lays just under the thinly veiled poems […]
Date: September 28, 2026
Mason’s achievements in verse narratives surpass those of other Expansive Poets, spanning multiple subgenres. His best early short-stories in verse are the tetrameter poems “Gusev” and “The Next Place” and […]
Date: September 15, 2026
The possibilities in form throughout one poetry collection feel unimaginably wide. But consistency of form can reveal the true beauty of language, particularly for readers who are otherwise disinclined toward […]
