Date: June 24, 2021
My long-running joke is that I never really became a good writer until I came out. Technically, I put together one good short story before I officially came out (which […]
Date: June 24, 2021
Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is Cécile Barlier to discuss her new book of short stories A Gypsy’s Book of Revelation. Barlier was born in France and received her master’s degree […]
Date: June 24, 2021
Imagine you’ve just published your first book. What do you picture? A luxe launch party with hundreds of guests and a champagne waterfall? Oscar-winning actors clamoring to adapt your work […]
Date: June 23, 2021
My father’s hand shot up to his eyebrow, his finger poised there, as if he were about to stroke his brow. A gesture I’d always considered deeply imbued with his […]
Date: June 22, 2021
Host Daniel Chacon welcomes Poet David Campos and Artist Maceo Montoya to discuss their new work, American Quasar, a visual-textual collaboration.
Date: June 17, 2021
As an undergraduate creative writing student, one piece of feedback kept appearing on the margin of my stories: awkward phrasing. Red markings littered my pages, arrows pointing every which way, […]
Date: June 16, 2021
Throughout his political career, Joe Biden has frequently invoked his favorite poet, Seamus Heaney. Accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Biden quoted Heaney’s “The Cure at Troy,” an adaptation of […]
Date: June 14, 2021
It was difficult not being able to rely on something, really two things—writing and reading—that I have relied on my whole life as escapes and stress-reducers. Read more here!
Date: June 14, 2021
Managing Editor of Red Hen Press Dr. Kate Gale interviews Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism in this in-depth interview on LitHub!
Date: June 9, 2021
I broke every window.The year I stole every library book. The year I lived below the El, always the hum, running through and by of people who desired to be arrived. Read the […]
Date: August 4, 2025
A poignant and profoundly relevant examination of society’s safe places. In this essay collection, Kalfopoulou explores the notion of refuge in all its varied facets. “Embedded in the word refugee […]
Date: July 24, 2025
Four stories merge into one in this tale of politics and greed set in the Indian Ocean. No one can trust anyone in this incendiary tale of murder, espionage, and […]
Date: June 30, 2025
Twelve years ago, Andrew Lam, a writer and journalist who left Vietnam as “a plane person” at the end of the Vietnam War at the age of eleven, published Birds of Paradise […]
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.
