Date: December 7, 2020
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. […]
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you all for voting! Congratulations to Lara Ehrlich (author), Caitlin Sacks (designer of ANIMAL WIFE) and everyone else at Red Hen. Here is a brief snippet of the article […]
Date: December 7, 2020
Marion Roach Smith sits down with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH for a questions and answers podcast/interview. This topic includes writing on the […]
Date: December 7, 2020
” I had been there twice, but by now so many years had gone by that I had to ask the girl in the office where it was. She gave me […]
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you Lit Reactor! Read the rest of their list here!
Date: December 3, 2020
Elise Paschen reads and discusses her poem “Heritage, X” on July 13, 2020, from her study in Harbert, Michigan. Paschen is the author of The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities, and Houses: […]
Date: December 2, 2020
ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich, a collection of fairy tales that turn up the volume on the quiet desperation in the lives of women and girls until the characters scream, rage, […]
Date: December 2, 2020
Issue 1|2: “Nothing Personal” by Tina Schumann ~ Nothing Personal Is it the wind carousing the birch tree across the street?The reliable creak of the screen door, or the catssleeping […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Editor’s note: We’re hard at work finalizing our Best of 2020 book list, so we’re playing a lightning round version of #bookradar! We may be a little pithier than usual, […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Washington Independent Review of Books has crafted a list, in no particular order of their most loved titles of 2020. View the list here!
Date: October 14, 2025
This book is so interesting. After meeting Tilly, Tilly travels around the world and shares trees from around the world. With each tree there is Tilly in a boat with […]
Date: October 8, 2025
Award-winning interdisciplinary writers Hoàng and Nào provocatively interrogate language,comprehension, and communication in a global world. Their collaborative result is a polyglotshowcase that combines English, Vietnamese, and a hybrid Vietlish to […]
Date: October 7, 2025
With nods to “The Little Mermaid,” Ehrlich’s lovely sophomore outing (after Animal Wife) again probes themes of womanhood and monstrosity. Ceto, a siren and hunter of men, yearns to break the […]
Date: September 30, 2025
This is the debut novel written by author Jade Shyback. I believe this is the first book in the new young adult series. While the focus may be young adult, […]
Date: September 18, 2025
I finished Alison Hawthorne Deming’s latest poetry collection, Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower, and sat quietly absorbing it, stunned by its power. Deming is a writer whose work in […]
Date: September 16, 2025
Nào (The Six Tons of Water) and Hoàng (Underneath) join forces for a lyrical bilingual story collection. Each tale is presented three times, first in a combination of English and […]
Date: September 9, 2025
M. Soledad Caballero’s Flight Plan spans geographies both physical and psychological—from cells to continents, from quotidian to unusual, from grounded to soaring. Intertwining seemingly dissimilar topical threads that include cancer, a […]
Date: September 2, 2025
An immersive psychological portrait of one man’s battle with lifelong anger and guilt. A young man’s troubles follow him after he trades his spiritual calling for life as a teacher. […]
Date: August 28, 2025
Ehrlich, the author of the story collection Animal Wife (2020) presents a short and disturbing novel. Ceto is the cruel taskmaster of the sirens, women who are the main attraction in Sirenland, […]
Date: August 7, 2025
This is not a reading book, however, it does encourage children to use their imaginations and “think outside the box.” That skill will help them later in life with critical […]
