Date: October 12, 2026
When Hannibal was loose in Italy and could not be made to leave, the Romans did a strange thing. They consulted their books of prophecy, and the books told them […]
Date: October 8, 2026
Marivi Soliven has authored seventeen books, taught creative writing at the University of the Philippines and the University of California San Diego and was admitted to the Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence Program […]
Date: October 8, 2026
Kristen Millares Young went looking for God and found a woman, found a goddess, found herself. She went looking for new stories about girlhood, motherhood, womanhood and found an origin […]
Date: October 8, 2026
I was no virgin when I met my husband, and he knew it. We have been monogamous, but I wouldn’t call myself chaste. (I can hear my friends guffaw.) Pleasure […]
Date: October 8, 2026
Date: October 8, 2026
With Diana Giovinazzo Tierney and Michele Leivas. In this episode with chat with Marivi about her novel, The Taxi Dancer. We get into the history of the Filipino population in […]
Date: October 1, 2026
Date: October 1, 2026
“If you find yourself reliving unpleasant moments with the clarity you wish you could reserve for joy, that’s trauma,” writes Kristen Millares Young in “Desire Lines” (out Oct. 6 from […]
Date: October 1, 2026
Trauma does not recollect to us whole. Memory is already a ghost of our experience, haunting us from inside our minds and bodies. Put 10 people in a room with […]
Date: October 1, 2026
On Sept. 26, local poet Adela Najarro will be honored with an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her volcanic book of poetry, Variations in Blue. The American […]
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]
Date: July 29, 2024
What a great gift as Tilley proved to be a fine poet and a discerning observer of our world. Educated as a physicist with a PhD from Harvard and having […]
Date: July 15, 2024
Check out the review on July 19th!
Date: July 15, 2024
In Sadie Hoagland’s novel Circle of Animals, a woman goes through cycles of trauma, motherhood, complicated love, and perseverance in a misogynistic culture.
Date: July 10, 2024
VERDICT Well-crafted characters will draw in readers, and an intricately woven plot will keep them in their seats. Recommended for fans of Tana French, Gillian Flynn, and Karin Slaughter.
Date: July 8, 2024
Danielle Vogel’s third book, the 2020 poetry collection The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, is much more than a group of poems elegantly arranged. It’s a conversation between the […]
