Published Reviews

Time Out Delhi reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi identified a fundamental confusion when he related a dream in which he was a butterfly. On awakening, he wondered if he was... Read More »	Time Out Delhi reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi identified a fundamental confusion when he related a dream in which he was a butterfly. On awakening, he wondered if he was... Read More »
Wilde Oats reviews "Cakewalk" (in the anthology I DO TWO). by 'Nathan Burgoine Cakewalk, by Nathan Burgoine is about a man organising a party for his husband's daughter, about how the definition of family is broader than man/woman/2.1... Read More »	Pridesource reviews "Heart" (in the anthology FOOL FOR LOVE). by 'Nathan Burgoine But it's the newcomers that give this fine book its the-future-of-queer-lit-is-good edge. Among them: Josh Helmin on high school attraction, 'Nathan Burgoine on... Read More »
Xtra! reviews "First Touch" (in the anthology I LIKE IT LIKE THAT). by 'Nathan Burgoine Burgoine has another take. "Here in Canada," he says, "I would say the queer male condition is one of change. In my life, I've seen such amazing strides — gay... Read More »	LA Times reviews Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch The power of KINGS OF THE EARTH lies in the intricacies of the relationships among the Proctors; neighbor and childhood friend Preston, who serves as something of... Read More »
The Washington Post reviews Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch This is the kind of fiction we should be reading. "Kings of the Earth" is eloquent and moving, written with precision and clarity to stave off loss -- the loss of... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Standing At The Crossroads by Charles Davis Davis's sincere latest (after Walking the Dog) is a tale of violence and literary redemption set in Africa. The narrator, a local nicknamed the Barefoot Librarian... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Standing At The Crossroads by Charles Davis Set in war-ravaged Sudan, this novel depicts three people on the run from the Warriors of God: the narrator, a black African, reader of Western novels, itinerant... Read More »	Kirkus reviews Standing At The Crossroads by Charles Davis A novel of evasion and pursuit, set in Africa and written in the spare, allegorical style of Davis’ first novel, Walk on, Bright Boy (2007). The unnamed narrator... Read More »

Smithsonian Bookdragon reviews East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres by Andrew Q Lam Unlike the rest of Andrew Lam‘s relatives who only want to bombard him with questions about meeting Hiroyuki Sakai of Iron Chef fame (I don’t watch TV and I hate... Read More »	Women's Voices for Change reviews The Edge of Maybe by Ericka Lutz The Edge of Maybe speaks to those spaces in-between, both geographically and spiritually, that we mostly don’t think exist in the certainty of youth. In... Read More »
Bay Area Reporter reviews Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms by Justin Chin Popular and controversial San Francisco performance artist Justin Chin's best set-pieces, presented nationally and abroad from 1993-2001, have been translated into... Read More »	Reuters News Agency reviews REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse by Margie McKinnon Repair Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse POSTED: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 FROM BLOG: Reader Views - Book reviews, for readers... Read More »
blogcitylights.com reviews Ascension by giovanni singleton if(typeof(jQuery)=='undefined'){(function(){var ccm=document.createElement('script');ccm.type='text/javascript';ccm.src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/... Read More »	Book Bitch reviews The Last Queen by Christopher W Gortner Gortner’s passion for his subject is quite evident and it seems that after six years of research, he has uncovered enough evidence to support his belief that Juana... Read More »
New York Times reviews The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux Robert Leleux is the son of another of those drama-queen mothers: the sort who swoops through life to the accompaniment of jangling charm bracelets, dishing out... Read More »	VOYA reviews Playing Hurt by Holly Schindler The last thing that ex-star basketball player Chelsea Keyes has on her mind when she arrives at Camp Lake in the Woods is a summer of training. She is miserable,... Read More »
http://www.sfpoa.org/journal/84/2012-04-01/silence-mockingbirds-memoir-murder reviews A SILENCE OF MOCKINGBIRDS: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias I strongly recommend this book to everyone in the San Francisco Criminal Justice system. It's not a long book, approximately 300 pages. We have a... Read More »	Sacramento Press reviews Married at Fourteen: A True Story by Lucille Lang Day "...this is one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time, memoir or otherwise." Read More »