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:
Dale Van Every Reviews Silverstein and Me
Date: January 12, 2010
Although it saw extended periods of minimal contact, one of the friendships that lasted a lifetime for Silverstein was with childhood pal and fellow cartoonist Marv Gold. Gold’s recent memoir, […]
Deborah Bogen Reviews Cartographies
Date: January 12, 2010
Cartographies: Uncollected Poems: 1980-2005, by Maurya Simon (Red Hen Press, 2008)The cover of Cartographies is a photograph of a bronze by New Mexican sculptor, Katherine Wells. It’s a female torso […]
Susanna Roxman Review of Ghost Orchid
Date: January 12, 2010
Ghost Orchid by Maurya Simon, Red Hen Press, USA, 80 pp., ISBN 1-888996-84-6 In earlier poetry collections, such as The Golden Labyrinth (University of Missouri Press, 1995), set in India, […]
Stephen Windwalker Reviews Safe Suicide
Date: January 12, 2010
Preview Stephen Windwalker's review of Safe Suicide, a memoir from Dewitt Henry.
Profile of John Bowers
Date: January 7, 2010
Chronogram Magazine (Dec. 09 issue.) Profile and Review of Love in Tennessee
Author Tom Pruiksma reads at Vashon Bookshop
Date: December 19, 2009
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Tennessee Waltz: John Bowers Looks Homeward
Date: December 16, 2009
Chronogram Magazine reveiws Love in TennesseeTennessee WaltzJohn Bowers Looks Homewardby Nina Shengold and photographs by Jennifer May, November 25, 2009American literature has its own railroad map, with tracks that meander […]
Illuminating Fiction reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: December 8, 2009
Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are two points of consensus. Almost all of the interviewees call revision the most essential element of successful writing, and […]
Marjorie Maddox’s review on BookMarks
Date: November 28, 2009
“Indeed, as Timothy Green claims in Hiking Alone, perhaps all we ever want is a little darkness to climb out of. In American Fractal, he provides the dark, the light, […]
Barbara Crooker’s review in Mid-American Review
Date: November 28, 2009
Opening Timothy Green’s first full-length collection is like entering a fun house and stepping into the room where distorted mirrors reflect back into themselves ad infinitum. The concept of the […]