Date: January 20, 2021
Before Covid hit, my family often traveled to Germany. There, we found “Asian” restaurants in many small German towns. I had to chuckle at the generalization. Did these restaurants serve […]
Date: January 20, 2021
The Sarton Awards are presented in four categories (memoir, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, nonfiction). The award program is named in honor of May Sarton, who is remembered for her outstanding contributions […]
Date: January 20, 2021
Every time the Animal Control van crept down my block, I’d pray that it wouldn’t stop at my house. As a childless widow with four dogs, I’d become the neighbourhood […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: August 14, 2018
Poems by Augsburg’s Max Sessner appear in English in literary magazines in the USA. Translated by Francesca Bell, a translator and lyricist in the USA, who after making contact with […]
Date: August 14, 2018
The American Journal of Poetry features yet another poem by Red Hen author Dean Kostos. The journal praises Dean’s past and recent publications as well as acknowledges awards won by […]
Date: July 26, 2018
The ancient masters encounter the modern world in John Barr’s inventive new poetry collection Dante in China, a book that poses a triple threat: entertaining, educational and enlightening.
Date: July 24, 2018
In a recent review, Sarah Leamy provides a detailed summary of tammy lynee stoner's novel Sugar Land. Describing the book and stoner's characters, Leamy claims, "These characters linger and are […]
Date: July 19, 2018
Athens, Georgia magazine Flagpole reviewed Bradley Bazzle's recently published (and first!) novel Trash Mountain as part of a short summer reading list. "With a finely drawn young protagonist, Ben, and […]
Date: July 18, 2018
In a recent review, Booklist Review‘s Jonathan Fullmer describes Bryan Hurt’s collection Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France as “18 amusingly eccentric stories.” Despite containing distinct stories with quite […]
Date: July 17, 2018
In Foreword Review's September and October edition, Hannah Hohman reviews Tammy Lynne Stoner's novel Sugar Land. Summarizing the novel's main plot points, Hohman concludes that "Sugar Land is a raw, […]
Date: July 2, 2018
Michelle Anne Schlinger from Foreword Review gives an in-depth review of Cai Emmons’ upcoming title WEATHER WOMAN. Taking a close look at characters and plot, Schlinger praises the work of […]
Date: June 6, 2018
In her recent review of Doug Lawson's Big Foots in Paradise on her website, Sarah Leamy says that, "Doug Lawson Writes with confidence and his prose is lyrical, poetic and […]
Date: May 2, 2018
"'The Wilderness' broaches subjects both infinite and infinitesimal, contemplating cosmic forces and commas on an equal scale," writes Jessica Weber of UCR Today in this review and interview with Maurya […]
