Susan Rich, Author Of BLUE ATLAS Featured On The Slowdown
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 2, 2026
Date: July 1, 2026
Finding true healing after grief requires intentional steps and the courage to integrate new practices into our daily lives. Award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach Laing Rikkers shares how the […]
Date: June 29, 2026
She discusses “the realities behind America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Date: June 29, 2026
“A conversation on mothering and the action of it, and how many of us are mothering outside our traditional knowledge of what it means to mother.”
Date: June 23, 2026
In the dark bunker where we are both trapped, my dad struggles against the chair he is roped to. He wriggles one arm free from beneath the ropes, reaching for […]
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 9, 2026
“I really enjoyed the prose style of Kill Dick. I loved how the sentences are always on the move, manic & fast, constantly on to the next.”
Date: June 3, 2026
“I’ve been a drug addict since before I hit puberty. I guess this is what Susie Vogelman taught me about my addiction and my brother’s addiction. Just how simple the […]
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
Date: May 3, 2021
Deborah A. Lott’s Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir is the story of a young woman’s coming of age and how she separates her own identity from her family’s. She […]
Date: April 26, 2021
Cooley (The Archivist) examines the unexpected aftermath of a lottery win in her sharp latest. Click here to read more!