Joshua Rivkin featured in Poems.com poem of the day!
Date: October 12, 2020
Rivkin’s piece “New Economy” was featured on Poems.com Friday, October 9th, 2020. To read the poem in it’s entirety visit the link below.
News & Reviews
News:
Reema Rajbanshi & Aimee Liu’s books have been featured in Frolic!
Date: October 12, 2020
Reema Rajbanshi’s SUGAR, SMOKE, SONG and Aimee Liu’s GLORIOUS BOY were featured to Frolic’s 10 New Indie Books to add to your bookstack! Thanks Frolic! Read the rest of the […]
2020 Great Group Reads Selections
Date: October 8, 2020
Women’s National Book Association features TEA BY THE SEA: The 2020 Great Group Reads selections have been chosen! This year’s list features books from a wide-range of styles and from […]
Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH, featured in Leadership Story Lab’s newsletter.
Date: October 7, 2020
Read the full Jennifer Risher interview here! “I recently received my copy of Jennifer Risher’s new book, We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth in the mail and I’m excited to dig […]
Amy Shearn, the author of UNSEEN CITY, has an article published on Forge.
Date: October 7, 2020
“The news of the past few days has inspired a flurry of group texts and confused conversations among my friends and colleagues. And the general consensus is that no one knows how to feel […]
ANIMAL WIFE featured in Fresh Ink Book Editing newsletter, read here!
Date: October 7, 2020
From the Fresh Ink Book Editing newsletter, Maya Rock interviews Lara Ehrlich author of ANIMAL WIFE. Read the full interview below! And be sure to visit Fresh Ink Book Editing’s […]
ANIMAL WIFE shoutout from Bartleby’s Books in their most recent newsletter.
Date: October 5, 2020
Red Hen Press would like to extend their most gracious thanks to Bartleby’s Books from Wilmington, Vermont. In their most recent newsletter Bartleby’s Books speaks of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short […]
Animal Wife a contender in Parade’s BEST book covers this fall!
Date: October 5, 2020
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich: Animal Wife is a collection of fifteen stories about girls and women who are seeking liberation. From family, from society, and from themselves. You’ll read about a girl born […]
Conversation with Lara Ehrlich – Midwest Writers Workshop
Date: October 5, 2020
Watch MWW YouTube “Conversation with an Author” Midwest Writers Workshop presents another installment of our “Conversation with an Author” series. MWW board member Lylanne Musselman’s talked with MWW alum Lara […]
Scoundrel Time Article, “MY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION” by Deborah A. Lott
Date: October 5, 2020
“I recently saw photos of Instagram influencers who had darkened their faces in a misguided show of solidarity for Black Lives Matter. Their efforts made me cringe and reminded me […]
Reviews:
Anchorage Daily News: Debut novel set in Bristol Bay delivers generations of women’s storytelling
Date: June 4, 2020
Mia Heavener, now living in Anchorage, grew up fishing in Bristol Bay, where she absorbed stories her mother and other women told between tides and over tea. Her lovely debut […]
Anchorage Press: Just to the Side: Reflections on a New Native Novel and Alaska’s Epidemic History
Date: June 4, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Kenyon Review: After Rubén
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Shelf Awareness: Moon Jar review
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]