ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich featured on Jen Campbell’s YouTube!
Date: February 24, 2021
In which I chat about lots of new books. Grab a cup of tea and join me! Watch the full video here!
News & Reviews
News:
Animal Wife featured & referenced in Electric Literature’s recent article.
Date: February 24, 2021
In a column for The Cut titled “How Am I?” Amil Niazi paints a grim picture of pandemic working motherhood. In the middle of her realistic itinerary piece about care of two young children while […]
Craft Literary’s interview with ANIMAL WIFE author Lara Ehrlich!
Date: February 24, 2021
The woman on the cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection appears to be almost airlifted from the 1950s—she could be an actor from The Donna Reed Show or perhaps a […]
Jennifer Risher featured on THE STACKING BENJAMINS Podcast!
Date: February 24, 2021
What’s the next step after you finally “make it”? While it’s easy to scoff at the problems of people who are financially set, it’s not uncommon to lose a sense […]
Large feature of Susan Kinsolving in the Hartford Courant!
Date: February 22, 2021
Many of Kinsolving’s poems relate to science. Her first book focused on horticulture and floral metaphor. The poems in another book examined aphasia and dementia’s linguistic enigma. Her most recent […]
Khalisa Rae is featured on NBC News!
Date: February 19, 2021
This year welcomes a slate of Black authors who will publish young adult fiction ranging in subject matter, but sharing one common goal: to expand what it means to see […]
Khalisa Rae interviewed on PopSugar!
Date: February 11, 2021
Self-care has never been more important than it is right now, and that’s especially true for Black women, who have had to juggle work, family, personal lives, and more amid ongoing […]
Tobi Harper interviewed on Brain Hackers podcast!
Date: February 8, 2021
Tobi Harper is Deputy Director of Red Hen Press, Founder and Editor of Quill (a queer publishing series), Publisher of The Los Angeles Review, and Instructor for the UCLA Extension […]
Tess Taylor featured on CNN!
Date: February 3, 2021
Before the pandemic hit, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach was working on a play about American labor movements between 1890 and 1920 — an era that many associate with seamstresses jumping out […]
TEA BY THE SEA listed on Electric Lit!
Date: January 25, 2021
My mom says every mother needs a daughter. It’s not that she doesn’t love and appreciate her two sons. My middle brother knows best how to comfort her in times […]
Reviews:
Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed in Good River Review!
Date: January 24, 2023
In his gripping new poetry collection Plainchant, Eamon Grennan weaves a revelatory narrative, rich with precise detail, layered symbolism, and evocative imagery. Plainchant is a powerful compilation of personal reflections. […]
Dennis Must’s MacLeish Sq. reviewed by Dactyl Review!
Date: January 24, 2023
Edward Said, writing about Beethoven’s late style, defined late style as that time wherein the artist freed from the expected cultural and historical restraints of form and content unleashes a […]
Brown Alumni Magazine reviews Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE!
Date: January 24, 2023
Thiel’s third full-length poetry collection, and her twelfth book, arrives bristling with navigable strangeness and open-ended questions. The 67 sometimes otherworldly poems here weave through biology, parenting, the pandemic, world […]
Asian Review of Books reviews FUTURE LIBRARY: CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WRITING, edited by Anjum Hasan and Sampurna Chattarji!
Date: January 3, 2023
A new anthology of Indian authors writing in, and translating into, English, Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing creates a new sense of contemporariness on the Indian literary scene. This arrangement distinguishes the […]
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Kirkus Starred Review!
Date: January 3, 2023
A moving and musical set of poetic works. Bell’s second collection of poems offers a portrait of motherhood, devastation, and hope. The author’s first collection of poems, Bright Stain (2019),was a finalist […]
Louder Than War reviews Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: January 3, 2023
Sometime Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich takes a detailed trip back in time, to catalogue the band’s journey from shoe-string budget experimentalists to internationally esteemed sound artists. Peter Ulrich […]
North of Oxford reviews David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: January 3, 2023
Mason is a poet defined by place, if it is Southeast Asia on the Pacific Rim or Northwest America, his poems breathe life of the people around him as well […]
Spill Magazine Recommends Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: December 13, 2022
Dead Can Dance formed in their native Australia in 1981. The core of the band was (and is) Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. When they relocated to England and settled […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu Reviewed on Patch!
Date: December 5, 2022
A refreshing book, I thought – a collection of short stories that this reviewer started from the beginning rather than picking and choosing which story to read next, based on […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel Reviewed in the Florida Review!
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel’s third collection of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, comes after an interlude during which the poet devoted her energies to a travel memoir (The White Horse) and the translation […]