Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Hippocampus with Lara Lillibridge
Date: November 10, 2020
I loved In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays. I read The Tribal Knot during my MFA, so it was a treat to read another book […]
News & Reviews
News:
Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Brevity Magazine with Nancy Geyer
Date: November 10, 2020
In 1998, with a sublet lined up but without jobs, Rebecca McClanahan and her husband left North Carolina and moved to New York City. They were well into middle age. […]
Siel Ju to read for ZYZZYVA Magazine’s Fall Issue Launch Party with City Lights Bookstore!
Date: November 5, 2020
Join Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon with Jonathan Escoffery, Wendy C. Ortiz, Siel Ju, Andrés Reconco, Kathleen Mackay, and Nina Revoyr ZYZZYVA closes out its year-long celebration of its 35th anniversary with the publication of Issue No. 119—the […]
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH & Jennifer Risher featured in Forbes!
Date: November 4, 2020
Risher’s memoir shares conversations with friends and family and her own inner dialogue, following her evolution after realizing that she and her husband were not just successful professionals but hugely […]
Tess Taylor reading some famous poetry brought to you by All Things Considered!
Date: November 4, 2020
Walt Whitman, Judith Harris And Whitman Again: What To Read On Election Day MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And now to help you stay steady through this long night, some poetry, […]
F(r)iction Lit interviews Lara Ehrlich about ANIMAL WIFE!
Date: November 4, 2020
While writing this and the next few stories in the collection, I was interested in exploring the threshold between childhood and adulthood and how fraught this period is with anxiety, […]
Jennifer Risher featured at the Bay Area Book Festival!
Date: November 2, 2020
Following her live Women Lit conversation with Robin Richards Donohoe, Jennifer talked with us about the dream of wealth versus the reality, how to do philanthropy right in the midst […]
Electric Literature gives Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION a recommendation
Date: November 2, 2020
Subduction by Kristen Millares Young In this debut novel by Cuban American journalist Kristen Millares Young, Mexican American anthropologist Claudia flees Seattle for the Olympic Peninsula Makah reservation after her husband […]
Francisco Aragón featured in a conversation on Words on a Wire podcast!
Date: November 2, 2020
In today’s episode listen to the conversation between host Daniel Chacon and poet Francisco Aragon about his most recent work ‘About Rubén.’ Aragon’s poems and translations have appeared in various […]
Keith Flynn featured reading from THE SKIN OF MEANING at The Appalachian Cultural Center!
Date: October 31, 2020
On October 30th, Keith Flynn wowed us with poems and music, including new work from “The Skin of Meaning.” Thanks, Keith, for a wonderful afternoon, and we look forward to […]
Reviews:
Chapter House Journal Reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
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 […]
Midwest Book Review highlights WHAT SHE WANTS by Kim Dower
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.”
NPR Host Scott Simon talks about THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD with its author Nancy Kricorian
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”.
The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Booklist features a starred review of Elisa Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
Nancy Kricorian’s novels tell the stories of the Armenian diaspora, exiled but always seeking community
Date: April 17, 2025
“Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian […]
Book review: Celebrate Poetry Month with new work by veteran Fairbanks poet, Peggy Shumaker
Date: April 15, 2025
Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author […]
War, Literature & the Arts Journal reviews INSTEAD, IT IS DARK by Cynthia Hogue
Date: April 9, 2025
Cynthia Hogue’s poetry collection instead, it is dark is reviewed by Hugh Martin in War, Literature & the Arts Journal. Martin praises the book as one that “probes this darkness […]
Kirkus Review highlights ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura
Date: April 2, 2025
Angel Eye, the second book in Madeleine Nakamura’s series, has received a Kirkus Starred Review. “Nakamura has knocked it out of the park once again here… Readers will be thrilled […]
Cole Reviews spotlights CITY OF SMOKE AND SEA by Malia Márquez
Date: April 1, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is highlighted in Cole Reviews. “City of Smoke and Sea is a quick yet immersive read, packed with strong character development and world-building. […]