This month Another Burning Kingdom by Robert Vivian is featured on the Ninth Letter homepage with an excerpt from the book.

Philip Graham writes “Vivian's prose travels strange territory, mixing colloquial speech with the heightened language of spiritual insight, a music fusing dissonance and consonance like matches trying to spark a reader alert.”

Click here to take a look.
 

Lisa Harper, author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood was a guest blogger on Motherhood Later, Rather than Sooner last week. On the blog, Harper discusses her experience of becoming a mother at 36.

Read her blog post here.
 

 

J.P. Smith reviewed Coda by René Belletto, translated by Alyson Waters, on The Nervous Breakdown. Smith writes “… (Coda) contains a great deal that is unspoken: the reader is compelled to return to it to see how the gears mesh, how the clockwork operates.”

Read the full review on The Nervous Breakdown.
 

 

Beneath Blossom Rain is Kevin Grange's account of his journey across Bhutan, via the Snowman Trek, one of the toughest journeys in the world. Below is the book trailer. Check it out to glimpse the beautiful scenery that so deeply affected Grange along the way.