Awards Wynne Brown’s Forgotten Botanist is a Top Pick for Southwest Books of the Year Erin Flanagan’s Deer Season is a finalist for the Edgar Award David C. Beyreis’ Blood in the Borderlands was a finalist for CSAW’s Outstanding Western … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Patrick Madden’s Disparates won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! The Rhinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza is a finalist for the 2021 NBCC Awards! Neal Scheindlin’s The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook is a finalist in the 2021 … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards What Isn’t Remembered Longlisted for 2022 PEN American Literary Award for the Debut Short Story Collection category! Reviews Let Me Count the Ways Review in Publishers Weekly: “With quotations from medical literature, historical treatises, and poetry threaded in, the … Continue reading News & Reviews
Join KUAR’s radio program Arts & Letters Radio on Friday, October 22 at 7:00 p.m. for a radio broadcast with UCA creative writing professor Mark Spitzer as he discusses the highly elusive American eel featured in his book Beautifully Grotesque … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Mark Spitzer on Arts & Letters Radio
Book Disparates Review in Lit Pub: “If you love the personal essay, or are open to learning to love it, the freewheeling, luminous, disparate Patrick Madden is well worth the time.” Bad Tourist Review in Tahoe Mountain News: “Raw and … Continue reading News and Reviews
Join the Springfield Public Library’s virtual event on Monday, July 19, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EST as Springfield resident David Krell discusses his new book, 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK. Watch the virtual event here! In … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Author David Krell to Discuss His Book
Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and … Continue reading Hilda Raz: New Voices Interview
Books Abraham Joshua Heschel Edward K. Kaplan Review in America: “In Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul, author Edward K. Kaplan not only tells the life story of this great scholar, but also captures the essence of the recurring themes in Heschel’s … Continue reading News and Reviews
Earlier this week, our friends over at the Jewish Publication Society published this Q&A with Elliott Rabin, author of The Biblical Hero (March 2020). Rabin is the director of thought leadership at Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools, where he edits HaYidion, the … Continue reading A Brief Interview with Elliott Rabin
Books The Black Bruins James M. Johnson Starred review from Kirkus: “Johnson engagingly captures the lives, struggles, and triumphs of five men whose greatness transcended American sports.” Black Jesus and Other Superheroes Venita Blackburn Highlighted in Ms. blog: “Blackburn’s remarkably short … Continue reading News and Reviews
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