Author2Author with Aimee Liu
Date: June 30, 2020
Bill welcomes novelist, essayist, and teacher Aimee Liu to the show. Aimee is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her […]
News & Reviews
News:
The Booklist Reader: Glorious Boy
Date: June 30, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Drinks With Tony: Episode #87 Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 30, 2020
Deborah A. Lott is the author of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir. She’s also the author of In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists.
Summer of the Cicadas: Local author Chelsea Catherine on the importance of queer literature
Date: June 30, 2020
There’s nothing quite like witness the emergence of cicadas from their 17-year slumber. Of course it’s rather the noise you won’t soon forget. My senior year of high school cicadas […]
Read Wilderness Excerpt: Subduction Chapter Seven
Date: June 30, 2020
The pacific frothed at the shore, its distant gray spreading into white foam and retreating, flattened by its own mass against the long curve of the horizon. The sea has neither mercy […]
LARB: En la Brega: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young
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 […]
The Daily: Kristen Millares Young on her debut novel ‘Subduction,’ her time at UW, and publishing a book during a pandemic
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 […]
The Seattle Time: Here’s what Seattle-based journalist, novelist and Hugo House writer-in-residence Kristen Millares Young is reading this month
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 […]
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock featured on TODAY Show with Hoda and Jenna
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!
KATU2: Don’t Go Crazy Without Me interview
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 […]
Reviews:
Ernest Hilbert’s latest collection receives a fantastic review in B O D Y
Date: April 24, 2013
Joshua Mensch calls the sonnets of Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth "gorgeously constructed and brilliantly executed" and perhaps most importantly "great poetry." You'll want to read this […]
TAB reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: April 17, 2013
Iris Law from TAB praises Brynn Saito's "luminous collection", The Palace of Contemplating Departure.- "At times transparent and vulnerable, at others, sinuous with history and the breath of the supernatural, […]
Chico Sol praises Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: April 17, 2013
Lindajoy Fenley from Chico Sol applauds Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "As I read Lam's stories, I wished I could meet people he had created. Each one was a […]
Tottenville Review praises Steam Laundry
Date: April 10, 2013
Rebecca Kuensting from Tottenville Review applauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry.- "As captured by O’Donnell, Sarah has pluck and grace, and an undeniable stubborn streak that resonates, even as her […]
The Scrapper Poet reviews Burn This House
Date: March 28, 2013
Karen J. Weyant from The Scrapper Poet chooses Kelly Davio's Burn This House as her "March Poetry Pick".- "Indeed, if anything, these poems are questions — questions about both our […]
Shelf Awareness applauds Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: March 22, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- “The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space […]
Huffington Post praises Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: March 13, 2013
Nina Sankovitch from Huffington Post applauds Andrew Lam's "supple and daring imagination" in Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Lam crystallizes the tension of immigration—the pull between wanting to hold onto the […]
Alaska History finds Steam Laundry compelling
Date: March 4, 2013
Deborah Poore Homer of Alaska History lauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell.- "Her talent with metaphor and language, and her sense of poignant moments, leaves one pondering the immensity of a familys […]
Verse Daily features Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s poem River Town””
Date: March 4, 2013
Check out a poem from Nicole Stellon O'Donell's collection Steam Laundry on Verse Daily. Full poem,
Green Mountains Review gives Ship of Fool high praise
Date: March 4, 2013
Erik Campbell applauds William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool in the Green Mountains Review. – “We need more books like Ship of Fool, more poetry collections that have the import and […]