Buzzfeed: 31 Terrific Books Recommended By 31 Terrific Writers
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction, recommends We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning.
News & Reviews
News:
Go Forth: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was a prize-winning journalist when I first met her and I first read the beginning of Subduction in a class I taught at the Port Townsend Writer’s […]
Seattle Arts & Lectures: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young, author of “Subduction”
Date: June 3, 2020
Last week, I spoke with Kristen Millares Young, author of the novel Subduction, released on April 14 by Red Hen Press. The story follows two such seekers to the tip of the […]
The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition I am zipped into a tent on my friend’s beachfront lawn. Caring for her mom and kids, she has a full house, […]
Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 2, 2020
I don’t remember when or how Kristen Millares Young and I became friends, but I know it happened in Coast Salish territory, specifically Seattle, where she lives and I left. Subduction, her debut novel […]
April 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us
Date: June 2, 2020
Ms. Magazine Ms. Feminist Know-It-All features Subduction! In this utterly unique and important first novel, Young examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a […]
On Diaspora, Encounter, and Emotional Restitution
Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Literary Events Go Virtual in the Time of COVID-19
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
CNN: Tell us what you’re reading right now
Date: June 2, 2020
Reading literature can give us a place to turn right now — and not just because it’s comforting. It’s because it helps us grapple with enormous ruptures in time. There’s […]
‘A Community Of Desperation’ Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange
Date: June 2, 2020
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Photographer Dorothea Lange had an eye for capturing what was going on around her – the Great Depression, Japanese American internment camps during World War II. […]
Reviews:
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED
Date: April 23, 2024
Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed is an ambitious, gorgeously written novel about the lives of refugees and the failure of systems to care for these vulnerable survivors of wars and […]
Library Journal Review of A Professional Lola
Date: April 23, 2024
Southern California-based Filipino American writer Tuazon (The Cussing Cat Clock) brings to readers a collection of 13 short stories, 11 of which have been previously published in slightly different forms. […]
Ben Tripp reviews C. Bain’s SEX AUGURY!
Date: April 22, 2024
“…these poems are whittled down to an essence … tempered, imbued with speed, or like a spiral staircase in some cases, maybe appearing precarious (as precarious as life itself, the […]
Kirkus Reviews features review of Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE!
Date: April 22, 2024
A coming-of-age tale combined with a pastoral horror story. Annika Rose Rogers graduates from high school with no real prospects for the future other than working alongside her father on […]
Soapberry Review calls Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS “Literal healing magic”!
Date: April 10, 2024
Cursebreakers is a powerful debut novel by fantasy writer Madeleine Nakamura. Set in a magic-filled world adjacent to our own, we follow professor of magic Adrien Desfourneaux as he works to uncover […]
Reema Rajbanshi’s SUGAR, SMOKE, SONG featured in a review from Publishers Weekly
Date: March 28, 2024
The nine linked stories in Rajbanshi’s sterling debut collection blend snapshots of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and South America in New York and California, as well as flashing back to […]
The Vinyl Press features review of Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE
Date: March 28, 2024
I didn’t really get on to Dead Can Dance until “Into the Labyrinth,” their most popular LP that made the audiophile rounds here in the States. 4AD, their label, wasn’t […]
E.P. Tuazon’s A PROFESSIONAL LOLA on Kirkus Reviews
Date: March 12, 2024
Brightly evocative, clever, and sincere, Tuazon’s third work of fiction continues to chart a promising path forward. Click here to read more.
Booklist features review of Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED!
Date: March 6, 2024
Benedict’s true-to-life novel resonates, particularly in the characters’ moments of fortitude in the face of brutal experiences of heartbreak and loss.
MAINCREST MEDIA Book Review of MacLeish Sq.
Date: February 29, 2024
MacLeish Sq. is a haunting and lyrical novel that blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, present and past; Dennis Must explores the power of memory, guilt, and redemption in […]