Date: September 10, 2020
Recommended Reading from Lit Hub Staff and Contributors Lara Ehrlich, Animal Wife(Red Hen Press) “My mother said girls have to take care of themselves. That’s how we avoid turning into sea […]
Date: September 4, 2020
CHAUVET CAVE Read the poem here!
Date: September 3, 2020
Retreat Farm in Vermont featured “Language” as part of a nature walk. Check it out if you’re in the area!
Date: September 3, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Washington state and the nation hard in March, Seattle author and journalist Jennifer Haupt’s latest book deal was canceled. Like many others, her creativity felt stymied. “I just had […]
Date: September 3, 2020
We Need to Talk by Jennifer Risher 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 […]
Date: August 31, 2020
From the moment I read it, this line of poetry sat heavy on my mind, encapsulating, for me, the root of identity and the acknowledgement of its inescapability. It churned […]
Date: August 31, 2020
Lara Ehrlich recommends fiction by women about mythological and psychological metamorphoses. The Little Mermaid sacrifices her tail for a human soul. The Navajo Changing Woman grows old and is reborn […]
Date: August 31, 2020
Three poet laureates deliver their poems as a beacon of hope during these unprecendted times of fear, uncertainty, and isolatio Watch the video here!
Date: August 31, 2020
A pen. Some paper. A bit of inspiration. A quiet place to think. Of all the things a writer needs, it’s the last one that’s the hardest to come by. […]
Date: August 27, 2020
Kim Dower reads “They took the mailbox away” from her collection “Air Kissing on Mars” Watch the full video here.
Date: October 15, 2024
Book Review: Thomas McGuire’s second novel is as lyrical, intelligent and suspenseful as his first By Nancy Lord Updated: September 14, 2024Published: September 14, 2024 “The Curve of Equal Time” By […]
Date: October 1, 2024
By g emil reutter There is much involved when dealing with mental illness in a family member. There is always the hope for a turnaround, a recovery and in some […]
Date: September 17, 2024
If Hilma af Klint’s monumental paintings could speak, what would they say? Didi Jackson answers this with a resonant collection of poems, several written from the perspective of the Swedish […]
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
