Published Reviews

Library Journal reviews The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim Kim, Eugenia. The Calligrapher’s Daughter. Holt. Aug. 2009. c.400p. ISBN 978-0-8050-8912-7. $26. F Kim’s debut is the first-person chronicle of Najin, a young... Read More »	Seattlest reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond Forgetting English is a wonderfully written, powerful compilation of short stories. After reading it, we're not surprised at all that the collection was the winner... Read More »
Now Magazine reviews The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki’s new book coins the term “peep culture” and harnesses a ton of research – as well as his impressive analytical skills – in a way that’s sure to... Read More »	The Globe and Mail reviews The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki I hate Facebook. I've grown to dread the banal, relentless churn of it: the minutiae of people's status updates, the way it turns otherwise decent people into... Read More »
The Seattle Times reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond Raymond's prose often lights up the poetry-circuits of the brain, less because of lyrical language and more due to things that work as both literal and symbolic... Read More »	Vulpes Libris reviews Kill-Grief by Caroline Rance From the very first sentence, this book wraps you round in a coat of darkness, tension, low-life street horror and kick-ass descriptive poetry strong enough to... Read More »
The Bookbag reviews Kill-Grief by Caroline Rance This debut novel is by a very talented author indeed. The front cover bears the legend jolts the reader into Hogarth's world with a vengeance - and this exactly... Read More »	Library Journal reviews Deniability by George Witte "Smart, timely, and sane, this volume is highly recommended." Read More »
Fiction Writers Review reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond In her impressive debut collection, Forgetting English, Midge Raymond sets her stories in a variety of locations outside the continental United States. How many... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews Urban Etiquette by Charles Purdy "Upon arriving home from lunch with Charles Purdy I found a jumble of mail on the hall table, and so inspired was I by Purdy's philosophy of politesse that,... Read More »

USA Today reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "The drawings are surprisingly detailed, colorful and contemplative, adding new layers to the text and potentially earning Pynchon some new fans." Read More »	H-Net Reviews reviews Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary by Ray E. Boomhower Readers will note the many parallels between the 1968 and 2008 Indiana Democratic primaries. Both primaries, held as usual late in the campaign season, mattered... Read More »
Beat Kirkus reviews Beat by amy l. boaz Boaz follows her debut (A Richer Dust, 2008) with another finely wrought novel rooted in literary history. Here it’s a member of the Beat Generation who... Read More »	HTMLGiant reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes Keith Gessen’s list of top short fiction from 2009, including Dreams Where I Can Fly, by Eric Barnes, a story that is, in part, the opening to Barnes’ novel... Read More »
Amazon reviews THE GILDED CAGE by Cynthia Sally Haggard The Thwarted Queen is that wonderful combination of historical accuracy and a story that sweeps you away into the 15th century world of lords and ladies, royal... Read More »	Omaha World Herald reviews Serpent Box: A Novel by Vincent Louis Carrella Jacob Flint sneaks out in the middle of the night so that on midnight of his 10th birthday, he'll be at his tree -- the tree where his pregnant mother, seeking... Read More »
TCM Reviews reviews Considering SomeplacElse by B.L. Lindstrom This fascinating story intertwines the choices we, as human beings make every day, and illustrates the consequences each one has on our society. Lindstrom should... Read More »	Katherine V. Forrest reviews Under the Witness Tree by Marianne K. Martin Under the Witness Tree is a multi-dimensional love story woven with rich themes of family and the search for roots. This is a novel of discovery that reaches into... Read More »
Historical Novels Review reviews Billy Boy, the Sunday Soldier of the 17th Maine by Jean Mary Flahive This is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of the true Billy Laird, the only American Civil War soldier from the state of Maine to be tried for desertion... Read More »	Shelf-Awareness reviews Picture the Dead by Lisa Brown Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown (Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99, 9781402237126/140223712X, 272 pp., ages 12-up, May 2010) Adele Griffin here combines... Read More »