Louise Wareham Leonard’s, 52 Men, is an intense “micro-novel” that captures the emotional and physical possibilities of encounters between 52 men and one woman in the Manhattan of the late twentieth century.
To celebrate the upcoming August 15 release, excerpts and snippets of the men have been shared online with The Rumpus and Fiction Advocate.
“Five Easy Pieces” can be found here on The Rumpus.
“Joel, Paul, Bob, Lou, and Timothy” can be found here on Fiction Advocate.
Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact on her life:
"I grew up at a time when the internment of my Japanese American parents and grandparents was not given a single line in my history textbooks. Or the term 'Asian American,' must less 'Asian American poetry,' didn't even exist. We were called 'Orientals' back then…At UCLA, the best class I took was 'Orientals in America,' in my senior year 1969…How liberating it was to release our pent-up anger for decades of racial discrimination and injustices. On a big white-majority (at that time) campus like UCLA, we finally had a home."
To read the full article, go here.
Amy Uyematsu's debut poetry collection comes out April 2015. To preorder
Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination.
The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility, and encourage development of emerging writers." Reyes was nominated for the award for her collection of poems titled Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives.
The Advocate article features Reyes' poem, "The Queer Retablo Series: Butch-Femme Dialogue," as well as other poems by authors who were also nominated for the Lambda Award.
Congratulations to Eloise Klein Healy
The Latina Book Club recently announced its 2nd Annual Books of the Year List. All books chosen were either written by Latino authors, or contain noteworthy Latino characters.
Verónica Reyes’ beautifully rendered Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives made the list!
Find the full list here.
Amy Schutzer gave an interview to Shelf Unbound and talked about her creative writing process and influences for her new book, Spheres of Disturbance.
“When I begin a novel, it is a response to either an image coming to me, or a character, or a sliver of the plot, or a combination of these things.”
To read more, check out Amy’s full interview here.
If you have ever wanted to get a taste of Ellen Meeropol’s writing, here is a great opportunity. Shakinglikeamountain.com has posted an enticing excerpt from Ellen’s Spring 2011 title House Arrest.
“The knock at the apartment door is loud. Momma answers it and steps back to let the two men in suits into the kitchen. They show their policeman badges. ‘You have to come with us now,’ the tall man says.
Daddy starts to argue. The policeman pushes his chest and Daddy falls against the yellow wall we painted last summer to look like sunshine.
The short officer puts handcuffs on Daddy’s wrists and shoves him toward the door. The cops don’t look at us.”
To read the entire excerpt, click on the link here.
The New Criterion has a nice review up of David Mason’s lyrical memoir, News from the Village: Aegean Friends. Here’s a taste: “In one of the book’s most eloquent passages, Mason meditates on loss by reciting a litany of the changes Greece has endured, from the ‘ancient kingdoms of Laconia’ to today, when ‘it’s globalization the young are fighting.'” You can read the whole thing here.
First the Economist, then the Wall Street Journal, and then the world! Summer Brenner’s wonderful short story collection, My Life in Clothes, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal‘s holiday gift guide! Read it here.
Yet another great review of Janice Eidus’s The Last Jewish Virgin, this one from New Pages. It’s like the book is good or something. An excerpt:
“…an entertaining, original, and psychologically creepy variation of immortal love…”
Read the full thing here.
Tess Taylor has had an amazing journey of discovery these past few months. Her debut poetry collection, The Forage House, chronicles the exploration of her familial lineage and ties to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. It was the publication of this book that led Gayle Jessup White, a communications consultant, to reach out to Tess. Together, they discovered they were related through the Jefferson family line.
In an audio interview for The Takeaway, Tess and Gayle discussed how this experience came to be. “A note from Gayle to Tess sparked what would become a series of conversations, phone calls and eventual meetings that resulted in the women realizing they were related, distant cousins separated by the dark legacy of slavery, but linked by the Jefferson family line.”
To hear more of Tess and Gayle’s discussion on identity, family and the past, click here.
To find your local Takeaway stations, click here.
Kate Gale, our managing editor, and Kim Dower, author of the wonderful new collection AIR KISSING ON MARS, were interviewed this morning on KUCI for the segment “Writers on Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.” You can get the audio here.
Camille Dungy’s Suck on the Marrow has won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation!
For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the sixth significant honor this book has received: it won the Northern California Book Award, received a silver medal in the California Book Award, and was a finalist fre the NAACP Image Awards, the Balcones Poetry Prize, and the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards.
It’s a very good book. Read more about it here.
Author Ron Koertge wrote a post for Huffington Post about why he loves to write flash fiction:
“Flash fiction doesn’t mind giving pleasure. It has a palpable level of affection for its readers that I sometimes find lacking in a lot of so-called serious work.”
To read the full article, click here.
If you want to experience the joy of flash fiction for yourself, Ron Koertge’s latest flash fiction work, Sex World, is now available.
Jamey Hecht’s new manuscript Fate vs. United States has been declared a finalist in the just-concluded 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize.
His 2009 Red Hen Press title, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film was also a finalist in a previous submission period for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize.
