TBLR: Importing Color
Date: July 1, 2020
During the ongoing shelter-in-place regime, I should be reading fiction and transporting myself to other worlds that might afford me a semblance of normality or familiarity. But I don’t seem […]
News & Reviews
News:
Repeating Islands: Donna Hemans
Date: July 1, 2020
Donna Heman’s forthcoming novel Tea by the Sea is now available for pre-ordering. It will be released on June 9, 2020 (Red Hen Press). Marlon James (author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf) writes: […]
Donna Hemans And TEA BY THE SEA on Wine Women & Writing
Date: July 1, 2020
Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins for a lovely conversation wtih Donna Hemans about her June 9, 2020 release, TEA BY THE SEA, a lyrical novel about family uniting and unraveling, set […]
Fanna: 15 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS RELEASING IN JUNE 2020 || SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER; READ & RECOMMEND THESE STORIES
Date: July 1, 2020
It’s been a week since the protests in United States have started to demand justice for all the black lives lost to racist cops’ brutality. Everyone is and should be […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hemans
Date: June 30, 2020
Read the full interview here!
Poets & Writers: Tea by the Sea
Date: June 30, 2020
“Eight years of active searching had come to this: an abandoned house, an outdoor stove, and a doll, signs of a former life but necessarily his and hers.” In this […]
NY Post: The best books of the week
Date: June 30, 2020
Tea by the SeaDonna Hemans (fiction, Red Hen Press)Plum Valentine’s daughter was taken from her the day after the baby was born, snatched, without explanation, by the girl’s father. Seventeen […]
The Rumpus: An Exploration of Belonging
Date: June 30, 2020
Jamaica-born writer Donna Hemans has been said to hear “life sung by a chorus, not a single voice.” Her plots are as intense as thrillers yet as resonant as poetry, and the lyricism and […]
Pigs on the TODAY show
Date: June 30, 2020
For June, the Read With Jenna book club dove into Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, “A Burning.” The book tackles themes of class, fate and corruption in contemporary India through the stories of […]
IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out
Date: June 30, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
Reviews:
Janice Eidus Gives Voice to Adolescent Virgin Vampire The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of FateThe Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate by Janice Eidus
Date: March 16, 2020
Janice Eidus Gives Voice to Adolescent Virgin Vampire The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of FateThe Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate by Janice Eidus My rating: 4 of […]
City Paper Praises My Body is a Book of Rules!
Date: March 16, 2020
Rebekah Kirkman of City Paper praised Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules. “Though the shifts from one chapter to the next can be awkward and jarring, Washuta […]
Midwest Book Review praises A HALFMAN DREAMING
Date: March 16, 2020
Thanks to Midwest Book Review for this fantastic praise, saying A HALFMAN DREAMING is “an enticing read that is sure to provoke much to think about… [and] an excellent and fine literary […]
Anthony Hecht reviews The Alarming Beauty of our Sky
Date: March 16, 2020
The Alarming Beauty of the Sky Leslie Monsour. Red Hen (CDC
“the only other poet who plies risk against reward so deftly is Pound.”
Date: March 16, 2020
Strong Verse reviews Ernest Hilbert’s Sixty Sonnets. First let me say that Ernie Hilbert is a sneaky bastard for including the Bauman’s Rare Books Catalogue in the package that delivered his […]
SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS reviews EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to the Seattle Review of Books for this great review on EAT LESS WATER, saying that these “deeply personal stories, told with love and care” “could not have come at […]
THE NIGHTLIFE praised by Kenyon Review
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen’s THE NIGHTLIFE was recently reviewed by the Kenyon Review in their October 2017 microreviews! The lovely Janet McAdams says, “Paschen’s work has always seemed to me infused by […]
Coming Home to Roost
Date: March 16, 2020
In a previous post called Blogging and the Memoir Community I promised to review DeWitt Henry’s memoir called Safe Suicide because he was the first published author who found me […]
“Residue”creates a “funny, bizarre, and ultimately satisfying experience” for Blotterature
Date: March 16, 2020
“Residue” leaves its’ readers wondering “whodunit” and what happens next! If you enjoy “humor in absurdity”, look no further
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph’s Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: March 6, 2020
Allison Joseph’s, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of the speaker?s personal lives. […]