Date: June 30, 2020
IN APRIL 2020, Red Hen Press published Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel, Subduction. Described by the novelist Shawn Wong as “a lyrical forest of storytelling rooted in indigenous voices,” Young’s book […]
Date: June 30, 2020
Before I ended my conversation with Kristen Millares Young — journalist, essayist, and author of her debut novel “Subduction,” which was released in April — she wanted to tell me […]
Date: June 30, 2020
This month: Seattle-based author and journalist Kristen Millares Young, whose excellent debut novel, “Subduction,” set in Neah Bay, is a staff pick at The Paris Review. Young earned her master’s degree in creative writing in […]
Date: June 29, 2020
June Read With Jenna Book Club author Megha Majumdar recommends PIGS by Johanna Stoberock as one of five books to read next! See the full segment here!
Date: June 26, 2020
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her […]
Date: June 12, 2020
Maurya Simon reads poems from The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems 1980-2016 (2018). This reading was originally given with Peggy Shumaker as the inaugural reading in the Tom Sanders Memorial Reading Series.
Date: June 5, 2020
I doubt I will ever go to the Antarctic but this book makes me feel I’ve (almost) encountered it. Bradfield recommends listening to the “unearthly” underwater vocalisations of Weddell seals, […]
Date: June 5, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
Date: June 4, 2020
Episode #39 welcomes former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge and has new book, Oldguy: Superhero—poems from which have been featured regularly in Rattle for years.
Date: June 4, 2020
David Mason gives a hypothetical “last lecture”!
Date: March 18, 2016
Recommended and briefly reviewed by Eduardo C. Corral in Poetry Magazine. The poems in Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop are funny, wicked, and poignant. These three qualities are visible […]
Date: March 16, 2016
The editor describes the book as "enigmatic, transversive, transformative," and so beautifully writes that there is "water–and the life water ensures–running through this book." Thanks for the wonderful words of […]
Date: February 16, 2016
"An interview with Dean Kostos about the power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island." The online magazine Guernica contucted an interview with author Dean Kostos as well […]
Date: February 9, 2016
The Literary journal Fogged Clarity has beautifully reviewed Dean Kostos's latest collection of poetry This Is Not a Skyscaper. "Like New York itself, with its carefully plotted grid of streets […]
Date: January 20, 2016
"Journey through a post-war Japanese American landscape with Amy Uyematsu as she defines race, unpacks the family incarceration experience and discovers a confluence with Japanese culture in “The Yellow Door,” […]
Date: January 12, 2016
"Just as Lam connects with and penetrates each persona, so too each persona achieves a moment that bridges or leaps the gap between our two cultures, forever wedded by the […]
Date: December 7, 2015
The first review for Seema Reza’s memoir When the World Breaks Open is live! Kirkus Review praises Reza for her “self-lacerating honesty” and that she “exercises literary license and often […]
Date: December 7, 2015
Arianna Rebolini, writer for Buzzfeed, created a list of books that will help the public understand mental disorders and illnesses. Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules is […]
Date: December 3, 2015
Called a "must read for all of those fans of Southern Gothic, great storylines, nostalgia, and a tinge of weirdness," this is one book you won't want to miss. Read […]
Date: November 20, 2015
Mary Sojourner, from KNAU, interviews Mark Rozema and discusses his first memoir, Road Trip. She brings up the focus Road Trip has on grace and the gift of being in […]
