What Is Found, What Is Lost by Anne Leigh Parrish is a captivating look at the lives of two sisters raised by a mother who, at seventeen, hit the road to follow a revivalist minister. Parrish's gritty details are impressive as the reader witnesses the girls sleeping on a dirt floor and living with no [...]
Gail Chehab's stellar new novel The Tunnel transports you to a whole new world, unless you've already lived on the Gaza Strip right before the Arab Spring. Many of us only think about this region when we see the news. Chehab's richly-drawn book, though, gives us front row seats as a revolution is going on, [...]
Great readings in San Diego last night, hosted by our own Jim Ruland! This was Vermin's first event since returning to home turf from Europe. Great poster! Great pics of readers below. Kevin Maloney [...]
I had a great time at AWP this year, though it was exhausting as well. Here are some pics capturing some fun moments. 2015 Minneapolis with Cliff Garstang at Press 53 reading w/ Kevin Morgan Watson with David Atkinson [...]
One of the beautiful things about writing colonies, besides the nature that often surrounds, the artwork being created, and the solitude, is the amazing people you meet, some of whom become life-long friends. Such is the case with Elizabeth Evans, whom I met at MacDowell one summer probably more decades ago than either of us [...]
Marivi Soliven's beautiful novel The Mango Bride won the 2011 Grand Prize for the Novel in English in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippine counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize, and also won the 2013 San Diego Book Awards Prize in Best Contemporary Fiction. The tale is full of wonderful sensory images in [...]
Those of us who have the pleasure of knowing and reading Rusty Barnes are completely aware of what a talented writer he is, and I better just say it right off—I'm a long-time fan. His fiction is gritty and human, his setting as real as it comes. Especially in this high-stakes novel Reckoning, set in [...]
Robin Stratton, highly respected in literary circles for her many contributions, hails from Boston, MA. Her work shines in everything she writes: flash, dribbles, poetry, haiku, novels, chapbooks, nonfiction, and seemingly every genre you can think of. Aside from being a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she's been a writing coach for almost 25 years, teaches [...]
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