News & Review Type: News
Asian Review of Books features Nahid Rachlin’s MIRAGE
The Atlantic features Didi Jackson’s POEM WITH THE LAST LINE AS THE FIRST from her Poetry Collection MY INFINITY
The Root features Aliah Wright’s NOW YOU OWE ME
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY covers our 30th Anniversary!
Huge thanks to Publishers Weekly for this wonderful article celebrating our milestone!
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Listen to Cheri Johnson talk about the journey of writing ANNIKA ROSE with KFAI’s Rob McGinley Myers
As a promising young writer, Cheri Johnson won a series of big awards like the Bush Fellowship and the McKnight Fellowship, which gave her the funding to focus on finishing her first book. But she took a wrong turn with that book and struggled for years to write a new novel and find a publisher.
After more than a decade, she’s finally published that book: “Anika Rose,” based loosely on “Rosemary’s Baby,” but set in Lake of the Woods County where she grew up. She tells KFAI’s Rob McGinley Myers what she’s learned through that process about why she writes.
Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION featured on University of Washington Magazine’s list of 11 novels about Washington’s charm
When I picture Washington, I see fog drifting through trees on mountains, muddy and mossy rainforests, flashy skyscrapers filled with tech workers, arid fields with giant windmills, winding forest roads with small general stores, cherry blossoms, shipping containers at the port … the list goes on.
That’s why I get a thrill reading books that capture Washington’s essence. And I’m not talking about the Raymond Carver stories that skirt around the vaguely-Pacific-Northwest setting in devotion to characters and interpersonal relationships (though I’m a sucker for those, too). I’m talking about literary odes to Washington.
Poetry Northwest features William Archila’s New Poem [DON’T MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO RETURN…]
TriQuarterly features William Archila’s New Poem WHAT DID CIPITIO SAY?
TriQuarterly features William Archila’s New Poem WE WERE ALL BORN HALF-DEAD
Zócalo features William Archila’s New Poem CITY OF
Claire Fuller features Coco Picard’s THE HEALING CIRCLE
Carlos Allende is featured on new episode of The History of Literature!
LitHub’s podcast, The History of Literature, features Carlos Allende, author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love.
For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient epic poetry to contemporary novels. How did literature develop? What forms has it taken? And what can we learn from engaging with these works today?
Hosted by Jacke Wilson, an amateur scholar with a lifelong passion for literature, The History of Literature takes a fresh look at some of the most compelling examples of creative genius the world has ever known.
Catch up on the KOUW Book Club read of Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION here!
This is KUOW’s book club, and we just read through the first half of Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel “Subduction.” I’m your club guide, Katie Campbell. Let’s get into it.
I’m just a reader, standing in front of Claudia, asking her to chill out.
To recap, briefly: Claudia, one of our main characters, is a Latina anthropologist who has traveled to the Makah Nation in Neah Bay to continue her work with an elderly Makah woman named Maggie. Maggie is in the throes of dementia when her son Peter, our other main character, reappears. Peter is haunted by the murder of his father. Claudia is haunted by her husband’s affair with her own sister. Neither deals with their pain in an especially healthy way, but Claudia is dealing with it by taking what isn’t hers: Maggie’s stories, memories, and songs.
Author Event with AS THE SKY BEGINS TO CHANGE author Kim Stafford with poems and songs by Beth Wood at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR, Thursday July 18th
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.
E.P. Tuazon interviewed by INQUIRER for new novel A PROFESSIONAL LOLA
Filipino American author EP Tuazon has released a short story collection, “A Professional Lola and Other Stories.” CONTRIBUTED
LOS ANGELES — Filipino American EP Tuazon has released “A Professional Lola and Other Stories.”
The book is a collection of short stories that “blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family and identity.”