Date: April 8, 2025
Pasadena Now reports on author Nancy Kricorian’s recent visit to St. Gregory A. & M. Hovsepian School, where she met with 8th-grade students to discuss her new novel, The Burning […]
Date: April 8, 2025
“I grew up in a two-family house in the Armenian enclave of East Watertown, Massachusetts. My parents, my sister, and I lived on the ground floor, and my grandmother and […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Lara Ehrlich’s upcoming novel, Bind Me Tighter Still—set to be released this September—is featured in Every Book a Doorway. The reviewer praises the book’s originality, writing that it contains ideas […]
Date: April 8, 2025
April Ossmann was recently interviewed by The Reporter, where she reflected on her literary journey and discussed how rising political tensions in the United States since 2015 have shaped the […]
Date: April 8, 2025
In Cynthia Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark, she explores the lingering ghosts of war after her husband suffers a heart attack and recounts dreams of his […]
Date: April 7, 2025
Vanishing: A Love Story — a documentary by Sandra Luckow receiving a preview screening at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. on April 8 at 7 p.m., with a Q&A with the director […]
Date: April 2, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is featured in Alta Journal’s “13 New Books for April” — a list of titles their editors are excited about.
Date: April 1, 2025
The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín has been selected as one of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! Author Karla J. Strand shared her excitement […]
Date: March 18, 2025
Poet Elise Paschen was recently featured in WBEZ Chicago, where she discussed Kitihawa, who, alongside her husband Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, founded the city of Chicago. During the interview […]
Date: March 4, 2025
In 1994, Kate Gale and Mark E. Cull co-founded Red Hen Press from their Los Angeles home, selling nearly all they owned to begin publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from talented writers. Today, Red […]
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]
Date: March 1, 2022
The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]
Date: February 22, 2022
Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who […]
Date: February 15, 2022
In Sadie Hoagland’s debut novel, Strange Children, eight young narrators struggle to navigate two very different worlds. Some are exiled to the lurid, modern American city, with its microwave dinners, senseless […]
Date: February 3, 2022
We are taught that a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. We are taught that a girl who ventures on a quest to find her lost parents […]
Date: February 1, 2022
Deadheading, the practice of pruning dead flower heads in order to preserve the plant, provides Beth Gilstrap with a rich metaphor around which to organize her new story collection. The […]
Date: January 24, 2022
DIANE THIEL’S WORK has always asked fundamental and human questions. Janet Holmes, reviewing Thiel’s first book, Echolocations, notes that Thiel’s work deals with “silences, evasions, loss, and omissions.” This third […]
Date: January 18, 2022
In a word, wow! We know how it ends and yet we still find it mesmerizing. We know she kills all four of her children but we read on to […]
Date: January 11, 2022
Weir (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket) returns with a searing collection of stories about death from the perspective of a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic. The unnamed […]
Date: January 4, 2022
Anchorage Daily News book reviewers Nancy Lord and David James present, in no particular order, the 2021 works — including fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels — that they found most […]
