Mary Odden’s Blog
Date: June 4, 2020
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News & Reviews
News:
Lithub: Finding My Story in the Colonial Past of the Andaman Islands
Date: June 3, 2020
My new novel Glorious Boy began with a dream. On a tropical island during an emergency evacuation, a young girl was hiding in a dense rainforest with a small, mute white boy […]
Caroline Leavitt’s Blog Interview with Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Aimee Liu talks about GLORIOUS BOY, the excruciating process of writing, creating a memorable silent character, her shapeshifter dad, and so much more.
Ms. Q&A: Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
Date: June 3, 2020
Some 30 years ago, an established nonfiction writer and a screenwriter decided to write their first novels. They met in a fiction writing class, and have been friends ever since, […]
NY Times: Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out
Date: June 3, 2020
Featured mentioning of Percival Everett’s Colonel Hap Thompson!
OutSmart: National Poetry Month 2020 Reading List
Date: June 3, 2020
Presented in five poetic sequences, the poems in Hold Me Tight by gay poet Jason Schneiderman focuses the reader’s attention on the subjects of anger, real and metaphorical wolves, the work of the late […]
Washington Independent Review of Books: An Interview with Donna Hemans
Date: June 3, 2020
At 15, Plum Valentine is banished from her Brooklyn home and sent back to Jamaica by parents nervous about the pernicious effects of the American lifestyle. Once there, her trust […]
Electric Lit: I Can Only Save My Grandparents’ Home by Preserving It in Fiction
Date: June 3, 2020
In the bedroom of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer, there’s a mural depicting a well-dressed crowd at a cocktail party pasted to the wall. Spencer’s granddaughter, Shaun Spencer-Hester, points to […]
Amherst Bulletin: The price of protest: New novel looks at the consequences for two sisters caught up in the anti-war movement
Date: June 3, 2020
Family relations can be fraught in the best of times, even when people care deeply for one another. So what happens when you throw those family members into a situation […]
CrimeReads: Excerpt from Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: June 3, 2020
It’s Detroit, 1968. Sisters Rosa and Esther march against the war in Vietnam with their best friend, Maggie. As they reached the rally site, double rows of blank-faced National Guard […]
Reviews:
Patter is a top pick for Coldfront!
Date: January 28, 2015
Coldfront Magazine recently revealed their top 40 poetry books of 2014, and we are thrilled that Douglas Kearney's excellent collection, Patter, is on the list! Here's what Coldfront's Diana Arterian […]
Broome Street Review has high praise for RUIN!
Date: January 7, 2015
Recently, Andrew E. Colarusso, writing for Broome Street Review, wrote a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's RUIN, and had nothing but good things to say. "Ruin was written to remind us: […]
The Times Literary Supplement loves Sea Salt!
Date: December 12, 2014
Recently, Rory Waterman, writing for The Times Literary Supplement reviewed David Mason's newest Poetry collection, Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014, and had great things to say about the […]
Forewords Reviews has high praise for Ruin!
Date: December 3, 2014
In it's Winter 2015 issue, Foreword Reviews recently ran a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's new book Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living and they are big fans. Here's what Sara Budzik […]
Library Journal Names Into the Silence” One of the Top 15 Indie Books of Fall”
Date: November 25, 2014
Barbara Hoffert of Library Journal places America Hart's into the silence on the Top Indie Fiction: 15 Key Titles Beyond the Best Sellers List for Fall 2014. She writes that […]
Big Sky Journal Loves If Not for This!
Date: November 21, 2014
Erin H. Turner of Big Sky Journal reviewed Pete Fromm's novel, If Not for This, and had this to say about it: “Where the brilliance of this novel shines through […]
The Rumpus Loves My Body Is a Book of Rules
Date: November 19, 2014
Samantha Claire Updegrave, writer for The Rumpus, recently gave a stellar review of Elissa Washuta's memoir, My Body Is a Book of Rules. Updegrave commends the author's ability to make […]
Lambda Literary Loves Spheres of Disturbance!
Date: November 14, 2014
Recently, Stephanie Glazier, writing for Lambda Literary, reviewed Amy Schutzer's new novel Spheres of Disturbance, singing its praises: "I had a big reaction to this novel. I finished it in […]
My Body Is a Book of Rules Gets Called Inventive” and “Heartbreaking””
Date: November 7, 2014
Barbara Lloyd McMichael of The Seattle Times recently reviewed Elissa Washuta's memoir, My Body Is a Book of Rules. McMichael calls it "bitterly funny, fierce, sometimes crass and sometimes heartbreaking." […]
BookNAround loves If Not For This!
Date: October 30, 2014
In a recent review of If Not For This, BookNAround praises Pete Fromm's ability to capture life: "The descriptions of the physical world, the rivers and the wilderness are simply […]