An essay by Luke Goebel featured in Literary Hub!
Date: April 28, 2026
On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.) Luke Goebel Considers the Evolution of a Novel, and a Relationship.
News & Reviews
News:
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE Appeared in Literary Hub!
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, revealed not only what it was like to be a woman at war, but the […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE featured in The Common
Date: April 28, 2026
Helen Benedict’s The Soldier’s House, recommended by Issue 29 contributor Terese Svoboda In The Soldier’s House, Jimmy Donnell, a dazed PTSD-suffering vet, takes in the family of his dead Iraqi translator, including Tariq, the […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE appeared in A Mighty Blaze special interview
Date: April 27, 2026
A Mighty Blaze Special Interview presents Jade Danelian with Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, LIVE on April 15 at 4:00 PM ET.
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE featured in largehearted boy!
Date: April 27, 2026
“Music runs throughout The Soldier’s House as this plot unfolds, played on a little cassette recorder, the car radio, on an iPod (remember those?), or simply in the heads of […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, interviewed by Full Stop!
Date: April 27, 2026
Helen Benedict is no stranger to writing raw, careful prose about deep, complex characters. Her newest novel, The Soldier’s House, lives up to that legacy as it tells the story of […]
Luke Goebel describes his new novel, Kill Dick, in CrimeReads!
Date: April 16, 2026
To put it plainly, we are not shocked anymore. Not really, not by the current delivery mechanisms that have risen to fill our feeds, our media intakes, etc. We simulate […]
Luke Goebel celebrates the release of his novel, KILL DICK, with Flaunt Magazine!
Date: April 15, 2026
Last night, FLAUNT and Luke Goebel celebrated the release of his novel Kill Dick with an intimate gathering at Genghis Cohen Los Angeles.
Luke Goebel shares his KILL DICK playlist with Largehearted Boy!
Date: April 15, 2026
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel KILL DICK.
Andrew Lam reads excerpts from STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA on GBH Forum Network!
Date: April 15, 2026
Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author who has written about the overseas Vietnamese experience. He visited Boston’s Ford Hall Forum to discuss his latest collection, “Stories from the Edge […]
Reviews:
Dan Vera’s Speaking Wiri Wiri is reviewed by Amos Lassen
Date: January 18, 2013
Amos Lassen calls Speaking Wiri Wiri a rich and witty history: "There is a poem for everyone here and themes such as identity, migration, family, history, ethnicity and others can […]
Sugar House Review applauds Robert Sward’s New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011
Date: January 11, 2013
Iris Jamahl Dunkle from Sugar House Review praises New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 by Robert Sward.- "Indeed, the winding road offered by New and Selected Poems 1957–2011 is a fruitful, […]
Injecting Dreams into Cows is reviewed on Coal Hill Review
Date: January 4, 2013
CL Bledsoe from Coal Hill Review was thrilled to read Jessy Randall's collection: "Randall's poems waste no words: they are often short but pack a powerful punch. Her language is […]
Arsenic Lobster praises But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
Date: January 2, 2013
Jessica Dyer from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.- "Like the strands of DNA that make up living things, like the strings […]
The Seattle Lesbian labels Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus a required read
Date: December 19, 2012
Abby Soto from The Seattle Lesbian applauds Kelly Barth's memoir: "My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is the type of memoir that speaks truth to power in a way that […]
The California Journal of Poetics reviews Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: December 12, 2012
Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows is praised by Lisa Grove from the California Journal of Poetics.- “By the end of Injecting Dreams into Cows Randall has created a time […]
Mead Magazine reviews Rodney Wittwer’s Gone & Gone
Date: November 28, 2012
Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone is reviewed by Mead magazine for their Fall 2012 volume.- "This first collection is marked by the authority and fearlessness of the voice, one willing […]
Rattle reviews Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: November 9, 2012
Sandra Knauf praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows for Rattle.- "Her scope is kaleidoscopic. She treasures and shares found poems. She digs deep and uses all the emotions in […]
The Deepening praises Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: November 8, 2012
DLKeur from The Deepening reviews and praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows.- Sometimes sexy, often hilarious, strange and yet familiar, the poems in Injecting Dreams into Cows will leave […]
ChicoER.com Reviews Gary Lemons’ Snake
Date: November 8, 2012
Dan Barnett reviews Gary Lemons' reading of Snake at the Butte College Reading Series. To read the full review, click