Katie Couric Media shares an essay by MORNING LEAVES author Laing Rikkers!
Date: May 12, 2026
Dementia and Ambiguous Grief: Holding on While Letting Go – Loving someone with dementia reshapes how we understand love, loss, and presence.
News & Reviews
News:
The American Scholar reads a poem from David Mason’s COLD FIRE!
Date: May 12, 2026
Amanda Holmes reads David Mason’s “Before the Loon Calls.”
Librarians recommend YELLOW by Amy Pence if you loved REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES!
Date: May 12, 2026
11 Books Like ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures,’ According to Librarians.
Necessary Fiction reviews Khanh Ha’s latest novel, THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER!
Date: May 6, 2026
After years of working on media stories about hotly contested political situations, I’ve learned that sometimes telling the truth about a situation will make people mad. As I read Khanh […]
Molly Fisk shares her writing process for WALKING WHEEL on Periodicity Journal!
Date: May 6, 2026
The ‘process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for various workshops and classes. This process note and […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK is listed as a bestseller in SoCal independent bookstores!
Date: May 5, 2026
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,April 26, 2026. This list is based […]
PBS SoCal features THE KITCHEN ACTIVIST author, Florencia Ramirez!
Date: May 5, 2026
Writer and climate change activist Florencia Ramirez takes us shopping for groceries and invites us into her home to share practical tips about how to reduce your kitchen’s carbon footprint […]
The Brooklyn Rail shares an excerpt from Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK!
Date: May 5, 2026
Susie Vogelman, a protagonist who initially sees herself as “a failed attempt at form,” finds definition through outrage. Her roommate has overdosed on Oxycontin, causing Susie to retreat to Los […]
April Ossmann reads select poems from her collection WE at the Vermont House of Representatives!
Date: April 29, 2026
April Ossmann reads poems NON-PARTISAN and STATE OF THE UNION AUBADE from her latest poetry collection WE at the Vermont House of Representatives.
San Francisco Chronicle features Luke Goebel as he discusses the success of his latest novel KILL!
Date: April 28, 2026
Goebel, a recovering addict with a long rap sheet of alcohol- and drug-related arrests, spent years living in cars, on street corners and in motels in San Francisco’s North Beach […]
Reviews:
Sarah Leamy reviews Doug Lawson’s Big Foots in Paradise
Date: June 6, 2018
In her recent review of Doug Lawson's Big Foots in Paradise on her website, Sarah Leamy says that, "Doug Lawson Writes with confidence and his prose is lyrical, poetic and […]
UCR Today Reviews The Wilderness
Date: May 2, 2018
"'The Wilderness' broaches subjects both infinite and infinitesimal, contemplating cosmic forces and commas on an equal scale," writes Jessica Weber of UCR Today in this review and interview with Maurya […]
Crosstown Mentioned in a Blog from New Zealand
Date: March 29, 2018
Loren W. Cooper's CrossTown is getting great visibility. An excerpt of the book is quoted in
JMWW Circadian Review
Date: March 27, 2018
"This book is fearless, even in its confrontation of fear and trauma." Great review by Amelia White of JMWW on Chelsey Clammer's Circadian. Read the full review
US Review of Books praises Circadian
Date: March 14, 2018
Chelsea Clammer is praised for Circadian by the US Review of Books. They write, "In this volume, the author proves that no topic is taboo, especially with the right choice […]
Notes from a Crusty Seeker, Betsy Robinson on BAD STORIES
Date: February 23, 2018
The "bad" reviews keep rolling in for Steve Almond's BAD STORIES! "Staggeringly good. . . This is straight journalism at its best."—Betsy Robinson Read here full review
The Hippies Were Fucking Right
Date: February 23, 2018
Congratulations to Steve Almond for his first newspaper feature for BAD STORIES on PORTLAND MERCURY. Read the review here!
Midwest Book Review praises Eat Less Water
Date: February 21, 2018
The Midwest Book Review describes Florencia Ramirez's Eat Less Water as "an extraordinary and life-changing read that is very highly recommended." Thanks Midwest Book Review! Check out the full review
Midwest Book Review loves CrossTown!
Date: February 18, 2018
“An impressively original and deftly scripted novel by an author with a genuine flair for imaginative and narrative driven storytelling, “CrossTown” is an expressly and unreservedly recommended as an addition […]
Shining Rock Poetry reviews In June the Labyrinth
Date: February 14, 2018
Cynthia Hogue, author of In June the Labyrinth, receives a truly laudatory review by the Shining Rock Poetry Anthology, which calls the book "a masterly creation," among other things. Thank […]