Aimee Liu featured in the Los Angeles Times!
Date: March 10, 2021
The second dose was supposed to be my reunion pass. Thanks to COVID-19, I couldn’t get back to Connecticut for my mother’s 100th birthday at Christmastime, but once we were […]
News & Reviews
News:
UMF features virtual reading by THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE author, Dariel Suarez, on March 18th!
Date: March 8, 2021
The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series presents fiction writer Dariel Suarez as the popular program’s fifth reader of the season. Suarez will read from his work […]
Calling all South Pasadenans: Participate in a crowdsourced poem for National Poetry Month, written by Ron Koertge!
Date: March 4, 2021
In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, the South Pasadena Public Library invites residents of all ages to contribute to a crowdsourced poem to be written by South Pasadena’s Poet Laureate Ron Koertge. […]
WE NEED TO TALK author, Jen Risher, to Zoom with Pequot Library
Date: March 4, 2021
March 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Jennifer Risher is the author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, […]
TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT author Judy Grahn featured on Consortium of Seven!
Date: March 3, 2021
You know how it is when you hear someone absolutely brilliant and they articulate ideas that change your thinking in huge ways and you, in turn, can articulate extraordinarily little […]
Tess Taylor, “how verse can provide solace,” on PBS New Hour!
Date: March 3, 2021
For many, it’s a time of uncertainty and isolation. But in poet Tess Taylor’s humble opinion, turning to verse can provide solace. Her recent book of poems is “Rift Zone,” […]
4 Red Hen Poets and their poems featured on Mercurius!
Date: March 1, 2021
Check out the Red Hen Press Poetry Special on Mercurius. Featuring Joshua Rivkin, Marie Tozier, Jim Peterson, and Susan Ludvigson!
Barbara Abercrombie of LA REVIEW OF BOOKS interviews Deborah A. Lott on her book DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUIT ME!
Date: March 1, 2021
DEBORAH A. LOTT is the author of the newly released Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir. Lott writes of growing up in a family of leftist Jews, surrounded by […]
Khalisa Rae featured on Autostraddle: “Queering Faith”
Date: February 25, 2021
Welcome to Autostraddle’s 2021 Black History Month essay series. In their recent stirring multi-media anthology Black Futures, Black queer creators Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew ask, “What does it mean to be Black and alive?” […]
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!
Reviews:
THE SKIN OF MEANING reviewed in North of Oxford!
Date: May 3, 2022
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in North of Oxford!
Date: May 3, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed in Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 2, 2022
Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom finds the former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood celebrating a colorful mosaic of mothering moments that range from the spiritual to […]
AMERICAN BASTARD reviewed in Severance Magazine!
Date: April 21, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed on WBZ Book Club
Date: April 19, 2022
UNDERNEATH reviewed in Midwest Book Review
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Five South!
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a time when gender was confined to “girl, boy, or faggot” and AIDS […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
Elaborate scams and workplace murders abound in this bleakly comic novel.
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
A socially awkward tech worker grapples with his impending divorce, his relationship with his young son, and his struggle to create human connections in a tech-driven world.
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]