Read Your Way Around the World
Date: July 15, 2020
With travel plans cancelled for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking for new ways to feel transported from our homes, without putting our families at risk. That’s where these book […]
News & Reviews
News:
Her Sister’s Tattoo on The Bill Newman Show April 13th 2020
Date: July 14, 2020
Ellen Meeropol speaks with the local North Hampton news radio on the Bill Newman Show to discuss the book launch of Her Sister’s Tattoo. Listen in for an inside scoop […]
Howard Zinn Book Fair: Books to the Barricades Ellen Meeropol, Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 14, 2020
Her Sister’s Tattoo begins in the heat of August 1968, as sisters Esther and Rosa Cohen, daughters of union activists, march against the war in Vietnam. When a young man […]
Gridlock: A Precursor to Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 13, 2020
“My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no fragility […]
The Page 69 Test: Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels: Kinship of Clover (Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read, and literary fiction finalist for the Best Book Award), On Hurricane Island (semifinalist for the Massachusetts […]
THE SKIN OF MEANING by Keith Flynn featured on the North Carolina Writers’ Network
Date: July 13, 2020
“For some time we’ve been waiting for a poet to appear who could adequately confront the vast and deliriously complex matter of the USA—its people, its art, its material and […]
Without Books: Sebastian Matthews
Date: July 13, 2020
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His upcoming memoir Beyond Repair: Living in a […]
Lara Ehrlich Finds Inspiration in Fairy Tales in Her Debut Collection, Animal Wife
Date: July 13, 2020
Lara Ehrlich had a busy spring as director of marketing for June’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Conn. The 250-event schedule had to be completely reimagined as a scaled-down, […]
The Rumpus: Outsiders Looking In
Date: July 8, 2020
I met Kristen Millares Young at AWP’s annual writing conference earlier this year. I sidled up, thrust my advance copy of Subduction in front of her to sign, and she said, “It’s […]
Keith Flynn featured on Chewing The Gristle in conversation with Tim Conroy
Date: July 8, 2020
In this episode of Chewing The Gristle, Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with the imaginative Keith Flynn— poet, founder and managing editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. Watch […]
Reviews:
Lily Hoang’s UNDERNEATH reviewed in Patch!
Date: January 18, 2022
In a word, wow! We know how it ends and yet we still find it mesmerizing. We know she kills all four of her children but we read on to […]
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly!
Date: January 11, 2022
Weir (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket) returns with a searing collection of stories about death from the perspective of a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic. The unnamed […]
The Book of Timothy by Joan Nockels Wilson and Everything Never Comes Your Way by Nicole Stellon O’Donnell were featured as favorite books of 2021 by Anchorage Daily News!
Date: January 4, 2022
Anchorage Daily News book reviewers Nancy Lord and David James present, in no particular order, the 2021 works — including fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels — that they found most […]
Jan Beatty’s new memoir AMERICAN BASTARD reviewed on Pittsburgh City Paper!
Date: December 8, 2021
The cover photo shows a young girl smiling as she points a toy gun at the camera. At first glance, the book’s title seems to be American Badass. But the correct name […]
Tess Taylor’s RIFT ZONE featured in Magma Literary Magazine!
Date: December 2, 2021
A CAMERA OBSCURA, by Carl Marcum, reviewed for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: November 23, 2021
Just as the James West Space Telescope (the J.W.S.T.) is about to supersede the Hubble Telescope (offering the difference between myopia and 20-20 vision, at least when it comes to […]
Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES is a staff pick at Bear Pond Books!
Date: November 18, 2021
A fantastic novella of literary merit about a small family living in a cave after the climate apocalypse. Told in language that sings from the point of view of Sky, […]
THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Featured in New York Journal of Books!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]
Anchorage Daily News Features THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Review!
Date: November 15, 2021
Sexual abuse of children by clergy is once more in the news. Last month, a new report estimated that some 330,000 French children were abused by Catholic clergy and other […]
THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Reviewed in New York Journal of Books!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]