OK, So …: Episode 14 – Amy Shearn
Date: September 28, 2020
Welcome to the Season Premiere and Episode 14 of “OK, So …”. This week, I sat down with Amy Shearn, Editor at Medium and author of three novels, including her […]
News & Reviews
News:
Elissa Washuta, Kristen Millares Young, Sierra Crane Murdoch in Conversation | Open Book On Location
Date: September 24, 2020
Kristen Millares Young (Subduction) in conversation with Elissa Washuta (White Magic), Sierra Crane Murdoch (Yellow Bird), and William F. Deverell. Watch the full video here.
Talking About Wealth, Jennifer Risher on The Crazy Money Podcast
Date: September 23, 2020
As early Microsoft employees, Jennifer and her future-husband, David Risher, made millions of dollars from their stock options in the quickly growing company. When David joined an online book-seller called Amazon, those “millions” became “tens […]
Interview: In ‘We Need to Talk,’ Jennifer Risher starts a candid conversation about wealth
Date: September 23, 2020
Months ago, when Jennifer Risher was gearing up for her new book, “We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth,” initially set for release in May, she knew she would […]
UNSEEN CITY is one of “6 Fall Books to Curl Up with All Season Long”
Date: September 21, 2020
A librarian, a ghost, and New York city walk into a book—and there you have a recipe for what I never realized is my perfect novel, “Unseen City.” What can […]
Amy Shearn on IGTV with Natalka Burian
Date: September 21, 2020
Amy and Natalka discuss UNSEEN CITY on IGTV. Watch the video here!
Rebecca McClanahan Interview at The Rumpus with Julie Marie Wade
Date: September 21, 2020
Nearly twenty years ago, I read an essay that has always stayed with me. The writer is reading a copy of Denise Levertov’s Evening Train, which she has checked out from the […]
“Fourth Estate” by Ellen Meeropol
Date: September 21, 2020
I first saw the painting 30 years ago, when I walked into friends’ tenth floor apartment on Manhattan’s upper west side. My children immediately hurried to the large window, excited […]
I’m rich, but my life isn’t all about ‘glitz, glamour, and perfection.’ Here’s why we should be talking about what it’s really like to be wealthy.
Date: September 21, 2020
The wealthy are more diverse and ordinary than most people see or believe. Eight out of 10 of us grew up middle-class or poor, only one in 10 inherited money, […]
Podcast: How Jen Risher Got Over the Social Awkwardness of Extreme Unexpected Wealth
Date: September 15, 2020
Jen Risher, author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth recently spoke with Bobbi Rebell of the The Financial Grownup Podcast to discuss her book and how to […]
Reviews:
SINGER COME FROM AFAR author, Kim Stafford, interviewed in Oregon ArtsWatch!
Date: June 10, 2021
After a recent conversation with Kim Stafford, Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, an idea coalesced for me, that the great energy swap—the invisible exchange between sentient creatures that either fuels or depletes […]
Dariel Suarez’s New Book THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed on New Pages!
Date: June 9, 2021
Set in Havana, Cuba, The Playwright’s House is an expansive yet intimate novel about a young lawyer Serguey and his family when their father Felipe, a notable theater director, is detained by […]
Sadie Hoagland’s novel STRANGE CHILDREN reviewed in Prism Review!
Date: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
STRANGE CHILDREN by Sadie Hoagland reviewed in Midwest Book Review!
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Martha Cooley’s novel BUY ME LOVE reviewed by Vol. 1 Brooklyn!
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Cécile Barlier’s A GYPSY’S BOOK OF REVELATION Reviewed by the SF Chronicle!
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Allison Joseph’s LEXICON reviewed in ON THE SEAWALL!
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
STRANGE CHILDREN by Sadie Hoagland reviewed in Publishers Weekly!
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME reviewed by AS IT OUGHT TO BE magazine!
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Judy Grahn’s TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT reviewed on EcoLit Books!
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]