The Story Prize: Featured Instagram Post by Lara Ehrlich
Date: July 20, 2020
This post, by Lara Ehrlich, author of Animal wife, is the 32nd in a series of posts by writers whose books have been entered for The Story Prize in 2020.“This […]
News & Reviews
News:
Ep. 12: Chelsea Catherine
Date: July 20, 2020
Chelsea Catherine is a native Vermonter living in St. Petersburg, FL. Most recently, she won the Mary C Mohr nonfiction award through the Southern Indiana Review and her book, “Summer […]
Skylit Interview: Kristen Millares Young, SUBDUCTION
Date: July 20, 2020
Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and a betrayal by her sister, in the throes of a midlife freefall, Latina anthropologist Claudia Ranks retreats from Seattle to Neah Bay, […]
AN AMERICAN HISTORY SUMMER READING LIST
Date: July 20, 2020
This remarkable novel, just published in April 2020, opens with a 1968 Detroit anti–Vietnam War peace march when “guerrilla theater tactics” that results in an injured policeman, and the two […]
Poet Lory Bedikian says poetry is her release
Date: July 16, 2020
When Lory Bedikian was a girl, she sat under her parents’ orange tree in the backyard and collected flowers and took the leaves and blossoms and rolled them up like […]
Hoopla: July Riveting Reads
Date: July 16, 2020
Hoopla featured Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy on their list of Riveting Reads for July 2020. Find the entire list here.
#HalfMyDAF Announces First Matching Grants to 147 Nonprofits
Date: July 16, 2020
#HalfMyDAF today announced the results of its first grant-matching drawing to support nonprofits and their work. The organization will give $600,000 in matching grants to 147 nonprofits in 30 states […]
Red Hen Press Poetry Hour revamps for second season return
Date: July 16, 2020
Covid-19 is still preventing locals from gathering for entertainment purposes, but The Broad Stage and LA-based publisher Red Hen Press are excited to begin season two of the Red Hen […]
Lory Bedikian Shares Armenian Experience on “Finding Truths and Creating Arts”
Date: July 16, 2020
The Broad State and Red Hen Press are hosting an episode of “Finding Truths and Creating Arts” on July 16 at 6 pm (PST) via Facebook live and on their […]
What We Leave Behind: Learning About Resilience From Boney M’s “By the Rivers of Babylon”
Date: July 15, 2020
Sound falls away, and my immediate surroundings are so quiet it feels life is limited to just two sounds: Boney M’s 1978 hit “By the Rivers of Babylon” playing on […]
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews on Kelly Barth’s vivid” memoir My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus”
Date: July 20, 2012
Kirkus Reviews says, "Barth recalls her youth and young adulthood with vivid detail and imagery. Though much of the book centers on her faith or life amid various faith traditions, […]
Rattle Reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Refreshing and Unexpected” But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise “
Date: July 20, 2012
Lori A. May for Rattle says of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise that, "And just as storms are beautiful from a distance, violent from within, and […]
Publishers Weekly Reviews David Maine’s An Age of Madness
Date: July 16, 2012
In a recent review, Publishers Weekly had some kind words for An Age of Madness, the new novel by acclaimed writer David Maine: "In the deftly sketched Regina, Maine has […]
The Modern-Day Hitchhiker loves Josh Pryor’s Fade to Black
Date: July 16, 2012
In his recent review on The Modern-Day Hitchhiker, Jason Aydelotte says that, "[Fade to Black] has got plenty of action, gore in all the right places without seeming too overblown, […]
Sugar House Review loves William Trowbridge’s Ship of Fool
Date: June 21, 2012
In a recent review in the Sugar House review, Liz Kay had this to say about Ship of Fool by William Trowbridge – "Throughout the book, we’re treated to Trowbridge’s […]
Santa Cruz Weekly highly rates Robert Sward’s New and Selected poems 1957-2011
Date: June 20, 2012
In the review entitled, 'Robert Sward releases his career collection,' Stephen Kessler acknowledges that Sward is Santa Cruz's "most nationally famous resident poet." To see the full review, please click
Rain Taxi on Modern Love and Other Tall Tales
Date: May 30, 2012
With prose as clean as Hemingway's and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales. But these tales are […]
The Boston Review on Lucid Suitcase
Date: May 30, 2012
Red Hen Press, a small nonprofit press in Los Angeles, continues to expand its poetry list with the publication of Diane Wald’s first full-length collection. (Wald’s chapbook publications include My […]
Praise for Interpretive Work
Date: May 30, 2012
"Bradfield [has a] keen eye for intertwining the narrative of the natural world and her human narrative. This is what is breathtaking about Interpretive Work… here are the poems of […]
The Hollins Critic on Glass Town
Date: May 29, 2012
This first full-length collection by Lisa Russ Spear is a mature work, wrought with honed skill and diligent truth telling. Glass Town appropriately begins with “Scenes from Childhood,” a cycle […]