Essay by Martha Cooley in Literary Hub!
Date: January 13, 2021
On a damp afternoon a few years ago, descending a stone ramp adjacent to a cobblestone lane, I slipped on a slick patch. Landing on my seat, I bounced upward […]
News & Reviews
News:
Conversation with Kristen Millares Young by NYS Writers Institute!
Date: January 13, 2021
“As a journalist, I’d always been interested in finding that space between what people say and what they do. That’s the way we use rhetoric to hold politicians accountable… As […]
Tea by the Sea featured in OPRAH Magazine!
Date: January 12, 2021
O, the Oprah Magazine, features the Rebel Women’s Lit Caribbean Reader Awards, including Donna Hemans’s Tea by the Sea, which won the award for Best Fiction!
Sadie Hoagland featured in Scary Mommy!
Date: January 11, 2021
When my daughter got into Berenstain bears, it was all my fault. I remembered loving the series, associating them with my old school library and a particular comfort there. So I bought her […]
Jen Risher on Fit for Joy: Demystifying Wealth & Inspiring to Us to Connect
Date: January 11, 2021
When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of […]
540 West Main added THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman to their list of Essential Readings of 2021!
Date: January 7, 2021
540WMain’s Essential Reading List (Books You Must Read) in 2021 Every year we love sharing the books that inspire our mission and programming. One of the first steps to dismantling […]
Sebastian Matthews featured on What Matters Most podcast!
Date: January 4, 2021
This was a deeply engaging conversation with author and poet Sebastian Matthews. He survived a terrible head-on collision and wrote a wonderful book called Beyond Repair about his experience. We went into […]
HER SISTER’S TATTOO (Ellen Meeropol) one of ten books you might’ve missed in 2020 from OOLA!
Date: January 4, 2021
Even with all the extra “free time” sheltering in place gave us this year, there was a lot going on. Between learning how to work from home, helping kids with virtual learning, […]
Ellen Meeropol’s HER SISTER’S TATTOO on list of best books and complimentary TV shows of 2020.
Date: January 4, 2021
Everyone loves a good list and there are no shortage of book recommendations from celebrities, media outlets and booksellers. I love looking at my overcrowded shelves and this year I […]
TEA BY THE SEA wins Best Novel for the Caribbean Readers’ Award at Rebel Women Lit!
Date: January 4, 2021
Over 1800 people readers, we are happy to announce the winners for the Inaugural Caribbean Readers’ Award! The Caribbean Readers’ Award recognizes outstanding works in Caribbean Literature. The prize is […]
Reviews:
Cortland Review of NO OTHER PARADISE
Date: August 9, 2010
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/48/index.html?ref=home
Living With Pain: Cynthia Hogue uses poetry to chronicle her dealing with arthritis””
Date: May 5, 2010
Cynthia Hogue’s The Incognito Body as Ecopoethics””
Date: May 5, 2010
Stephen H. Sohn of Stanford reviews Chandra Prasad’s Death of a Circus
Date: May 4, 2010
Stephen H. Sohn of Stanford
Iowa City Press Citizen reviews Suck on the Marrow
Date: May 4, 2010
Vershawn Ashanti Young reviews Camille Dungy's
Prarie Schooner Winter 2009 Review
Date: March 10, 2010
Steve Huff's Book, More Daring EscapesReviewed in Prarie SchoonerWinter 2009 Editiion Steven Huff. More Daring Escapes. Red Hen Press.Dan Bellm. Practice. Sixteen Rivers Press.Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl‘‘False words are not […]
A Tree Putting Forth Green Leaves
Date: February 8, 2010
Alicia Ostriker reviews Judy Grahn's Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling anthology. The review appears in the September/October edition of the Women's Review, and you can read the […]
Praise for Suck on the Marrow
Date: February 6, 2010
Advance Praise for Suck on the Marrow: “Camille Dungy’s important new collection, Suck on the Marrow, explores the lives of African Americans in the 19th century, illuminating parts of slave […]
Katie Spielberger’s Review of Double Moon
Date: January 12, 2010
Spielberger's review begins: "Double Moon: Constructions & Conversations" is one of the best books I've come across recently, and that it can be placed on the "Alaskan Shelf" makes it […]
Katie Spielberger Reviews Leaving Resurrection
Date: January 12, 2010
Katie Spielberger begins her review:I first learned about Eva Saulitis last November during the Maritime Grind at Sitka WhaleFest, when I heard this killer whale biologist read from a from […]