Date: October 28, 2020
The occasion was the publication of Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, a collection of essays and poems about literature and social change, curated by author and journalist Kristen Millares Young. The […]
Date: October 22, 2020
“Plot does not come naturally to me. Instead of staring at a blank page hoping for inspiration, I take a long walk and dictate to myself using my phone’s recording […]
Date: October 22, 2020
You recently published your second novel. Congratulations! Thank you. Publishing a book in the midst of a pandemic is a humbling experience, and all writers who published this year will […]
Date: October 22, 2020
“I didn’t grow up with my mother,” Mom tells me. We’re sitting on the front verandah looking out at the grass before us wilting in the afternoon sun and the […]
Date: October 22, 2020
Author of THE SOUND: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, David Mason is published on TLS with his new poem “Antipodes.” Read a brief excerpt below: i.m. Derek Mahon, 1941–2020 The death […]
Date: October 19, 2020
At a time when income inequality is a huge problem, our country’s economic system is broken, and money is still a taboo subject even among those closest to us, this […]
Date: October 19, 2020
BRATTLEBORO — Among the authors Zooming in to this weekend’s virtual Brattleboro Literary Festival is Sebastian Matthews, who wrote a book of personal essays related to his family’s recovery from […]
Date: October 15, 2020
Malden Public Library in Malden, MA has recently added Lara Ehrlich’s short story collection ANIMAL WIFE, to their staff picks. A thank you to them! Be sure to always check […]
Date: October 14, 2020
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH author Jennifer Risher has been added to Modern Luxury | Silicon Valley’s list for the top 25 most influential people. What an […]
Date: October 14, 2020
Amy Uyematsu author of BASIC VOCABULARY is featured in the three-part video series entitled L.A. Intersections displaying diversity and talent with those based in Los Angeles. To watch the full […]
Date: June 4, 2024
A problem with circles is that they can be traps. Acupuncture, yoga, LSD, past-life regressions, pole dancing, psychic surgery, “special tea”: these are just some of the therapies sampled by […]
Date: May 29, 2024
“E.P. Tuazon’s collection of short stories A Professional Lola is a poignant, sly examination of their diasporic Filipino American community, told through interactions with extended family, intimate friends, adoptive/adaptive cultural clashes, and, […]
Date: May 23, 2024
Library Journal has a new, exciting review on novel A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost. Subscribe to Library Journal to read the full review!
Date: May 22, 2024
In Cheri Johnson’s “Annika Rose,” the titular character is just 17-years-old when the novel begins. Annika lives in a trailer with her father where they’ve lived since her mother died […]
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]
Date: May 22, 2024
Prolific Murfreesboro poet Gaylord Brewer turns his hand to short nonfiction in Before the Storm Takes It Away, his latest from Red Hen Press. While the structure of the 125 pieces […]
Date: May 21, 2024
Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing […]
Date: May 15, 2024
William Trowbridge has stopped by the pages of Light before in the guise of Oldguy (Reviews, Summer/Fall 2020). Now he’s back with a collection recounting the exploits of a classic persona, The Fool, traced […]
Date: May 15, 2024
Brice previously chronicled her Alaska youth in “Unlearning to Fly.” In “Another North,” she returns to Fairbanks as a divorced woman longing for a sense of home. The new collection […]
Date: May 15, 2024
Everett’s formally virtuosic latest collection (after The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke) interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic […]
