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:
Review: Cynthia Hogue’s ‘Or Consequence'” in Fogged Clarity”
Date: March 16, 2020
Scott Hightower reviews Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence in the arts review, Fogged Clarity (April 2011). According to Hightower, Hogue is “a poet of extreme precision and no histrionics.”
The Neglected Art… John Cotter reviews Lamp of the Body
Date: March 16, 2020
John Cotter A Gringo Like Me by Jennifer L. Knox Soft Skull Press, 2005, 95p, $13.95 Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith Red Hen Press, 2005, 69p, $12.95 Some Mountains Removed by […]
Three reviews praising Celeste Gainey’s the GAFFER!” “
Date: March 16, 2020
Kristofer Collins, from Pittsburgh Magazine, calls Gainey’s the Gaffer a “treasure trove of backstage stories” refering to her 35 years as chief lighting technician in Hollywood. Collins had this to say: “Gaineys work […]
From the Antioch Review
Date: March 16, 2020
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T. Dungy. Red Hen Press, 88 pp., $15.95 (paper). Dungy’s powerful first collection recognizes language–“A stranger’s voice echoing […]
The Los Angeles Times praises A Wild Surmise
Date: March 16, 2020
Hector Tobar from the LA Times applauds Eloise Klein Healy’s treatment of the city of Los Angeles, and comments on “what an inspired choice she was” for the first poet […]
Poet Savard pulls off resounding collection
Date: March 16, 2020
Reading the poet Jeannine Savard’s latest collection My Hand upon Your Name (Red Hen Press, $12.95) is like entering a dream world. The poems are full of fantastical images, strange […]
The Rumpus reviews WATER & SALT
Date: March 16, 2020
The Rumpus conducted a stunning review of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT, her debut collection of moving and powerful poetry. “Tuffaha harnesses the legerdemain of lyric to link love […]
Once
Date: March 16, 2020
Philip Gross, winner of the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize, reviewed Andrea Scarpino’s Once, Then for the UK journal, The North. Gross discusses the poetry saying that “the subject sounds depressing, the effect […]
Pope Brock’s new article The Moon Is Full of Money
Date: March 16, 2020
Pope Brock shares an excerpt from his newest release, ANOTHER FINE MESS, on Nautilus in an article titled “The Moon is Full of Money” Read the full article here. Pope Brock […]
The Literary Review reviews Amplified Dog
Date: March 16, 2020
Amplified Dog Charles Harper Webb. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59709-022-3 In the title poem of Charles Harper Webb’s sixth book of poems, Amplified Dog, a dog barking […]