19 Books by Hispanic Authors
Date: August 3, 2020
If you’re looking for some new books to dive into while you’re stuck at home, then you might want to consider some of the many great books by Hispanic authors. […]
News & Reviews
News:
5 Books You May Have Missed in June
Date: July 27, 2020
Each month I comb through hundreds of titles to choose the five I list here, and each month I come up with 30 to 50 that are worthy of consideration. […]
Vanity Fair: Admiration Society
Date: July 27, 2020
Lysley Tenorio, author of the trenchant family comedy The Son of Good Fortune, recommends The Likely World by Melanie Conroy Goldman. Check out the full feature in the July/August 2020 […]
10 Black Poets of Past and Present Who Deserve Unending Recognition for Their Work
Date: July 22, 2020
As a child, the first poem Tracie Morris, PhD, read by a Black writer was “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. Decades later, when Dr. Morris—now a distinguished visiting professor at the Iowa […]
Red Hen Press Poetry Hour with The Broad Stage
Date: July 22, 2020
The Red Hen Press Poetry Hour, in partnership with the Broad Stage, has returned for a second season! In this feature by Spectrum News 1 (LAX), learn more about the […]
Without Books Episode 15: Lara Ehrlich
Date: July 22, 2020
Lara Ehrlich is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, Sept 2020), which won Red Hen’s Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara lives in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reviews:
Weather Woman revied in Foreword Reviews
Date: July 2, 2018
Michelle Anne Schlinger from Foreword Review gives an in-depth review of Cai Emmons’ upcoming title WEATHER WOMAN. Taking a close look at characters and plot, Schlinger praises the work of […]
Sarah Leamy reviews Doug Lawson’s Big Foots in Paradise
Date: June 6, 2018
In her recent review of Doug Lawson's Big Foots in Paradise on her website, Sarah Leamy says that, "Doug Lawson Writes with confidence and his prose is lyrical, poetic and […]
UCR Today Reviews The Wilderness
Date: May 2, 2018
"'The Wilderness' broaches subjects both infinite and infinitesimal, contemplating cosmic forces and commas on an equal scale," writes Jessica Weber of UCR Today in this review and interview with Maurya […]
Crosstown Mentioned in a Blog from New Zealand
Date: March 29, 2018
Loren W. Cooper's CrossTown is getting great visibility. An excerpt of the book is quoted in
JMWW Circadian Review
Date: March 27, 2018
"This book is fearless, even in its confrontation of fear and trauma." Great review by Amelia White of JMWW on Chelsey Clammer's Circadian. Read the full review
US Review of Books praises Circadian
Date: March 14, 2018
Chelsea Clammer is praised for Circadian by the US Review of Books. They write, "In this volume, the author proves that no topic is taboo, especially with the right choice […]
Notes from a Crusty Seeker, Betsy Robinson on BAD STORIES
Date: February 23, 2018
The "bad" reviews keep rolling in for Steve Almond's BAD STORIES! "Staggeringly good. . . This is straight journalism at its best."—Betsy Robinson Read here full review
The Hippies Were Fucking Right
Date: February 23, 2018
Congratulations to Steve Almond for his first newspaper feature for BAD STORIES on PORTLAND MERCURY. Read the review here!
Midwest Book Review praises Eat Less Water
Date: February 21, 2018
The Midwest Book Review describes Florencia Ramirez's Eat Less Water as "an extraordinary and life-changing read that is very highly recommended." Thanks Midwest Book Review! Check out the full review
Midwest Book Review loves CrossTown!
Date: February 18, 2018
“An impressively original and deftly scripted novel by an author with a genuine flair for imaginative and narrative driven storytelling, “CrossTown” is an expressly and unreservedly recommended as an addition […]