Published Reviews

Stride Magazine reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover Poems in Spanish is haunted by a ghostly presence throughout, whether it be of the poet's dead father or a kind of landscape of the mind, which is also, one feels... Read More »	Pleiades 27.2 (2007): 211-215 reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover The title of Paul Hoover's ninth collection of poetry is misleading. Poems in Spanish is not, in fact, written in Spanish. Instead, Hoover presents a variety of... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Paradise Farm by Brenda Webster Using a spare prose style resonant with clues to the catastrophic times ahead, Webster deftly conveys a period of social history when women began voicing their... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Last Good Freudian by Brenda Webster ``I was born and brought up to be in psychoanalysis and, as a result, much of my adult life was spent on the couch.'' Thus begins Brenda Webster's new memoir,... Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews Sins of the Mothers by Brenda Webster More than any novel of recent memory, Sins of the Mothers is reminiscent of Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife. Novels about women... Read More »	The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Red Ant House by Ann Cummins Part of the pleasure of this collection is the way Cummins pushes the boundaries of language, transforming the mundane into something strikingly new. Read More »
The Washington Post reviews Yellowcake by Ann Cummins "...a marvelous blending of crises and blessings and a fair share of wondering and worrying. In the end, Cummins rather bravely leaves all her loose ends... Read More »	The New York Times reviews The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi ''The Icarus Girl'' explores the melding of cultures and the dream time of childhood, as well as the power of ancient lore to tint the everyday experiences of a... Read More »
The Guardian (UK) reviews The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi "Oyeyemi's childish, almost embarrassingly open prose style, plus her narrative assurance, produces a peculiarly matter-of-fact kind of hysteria, and this... Read More »	The Financial Times reviews The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi "The story is delivered mainly in the first person from the point of view of Maja, a young black Cuban woman transplanted with her parents and brother to... Read More »

Amazon Reviews reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson 5 out of 5 stars This memoir is really two stories braided together. First, the writing. Many blogketeers today have a disregard for proper English. I approached... Read More »	Style Weekly reviews Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Susan VanHecke Kohler's story couldn't be timelier for the young men and women navigating the war zones of today. Read More »
Rob around Books reviews War on the Margins by Libby Cone With so many other distractions vying for my time and attention over the past couple of weeks it’s taken me longer than it should have, but I finally got around... Read More »	Beat The Bloomsbury Review (Vol. 29, Issue 5) reviews Beat by amy l. boaz Beat AMY BOAZ The Permanent Press, $26.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-57962-186-5 A book person of note, when asked how he could tell whether a manuscript was any good,... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Des Moines Register reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The photographs reveal much about a lifelong relationship between 11 women. In the first, the tanned high school girls emit a joy for life in their playful group... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Dallas Morning News reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The Girls From Ames is such a brilliantly conceived, unusually composed book that the most sensible place to begin is the beginning: how a male Wall Street Journal... Read More »
New Pages reviews Girl on a Bridge by Suzanne Frischkorn Girl on a Bridge Poetry by Suzanne Frischkorn Main Street Rag Books, March 2010 ISBN-10: 1599482266 ISBN 13: 978-1-59948-226-2 Paperback: 57pp; $14.00 Review by... Read More »	reviewsbyamoslassen.com reviews Harpies' Feast by Linda Morganstein ...Morganstein gives us characters that are well defined and real. When I say real I mean that we can see ourselves in the characters here especially since all of... Read More »
Librarything reviews Mini-Collection by Hank Quense I really enjoyed Mini Collection. Saving the Shore was a funny version of Lord of the Rings with strange, but interesting, characters, and creative magic. I liked... Read More »	Brain, Child (Summer 2008) reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson When the instructor of the Lamaze class that Rummel-Hudson attended with his pregnant wife said, “So the first thing the nurse will do is hand the new baby to you... Read More »