Published Reviews

Narrative Magazine reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt On occasion, the narrator looks around the room, and Ehrhardt has a gift for lucid description that has the hyperreal effect of a still life, causing one to... Read More »	The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Refreshingly, Ehrhardt doesn't string the reader along with inflated prose or over-the-top characterizations. Her stories are clean, sharp-edged, and imbued with... Read More »
The New York Times reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt The collection’s most successful story, “The Longest Part of the Day,” moves between the point of view of 15-year-old Jilly, who goes missing when she takes a ride... Read More »	New Orleans Times-Picayune reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt All readers recognize it when they hear it -- the siren song of the truth teller, the voice that will lead you someplace new, summoning you to an experience that... Read More »
The Washington Post reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Like any good teacher, Hayes has a knack for metaphor. The still, close air in an anatomy lab is "like the gym of the dead." A lung is "a wet mound... Read More »	Rain Taxi reviews Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes Barbara Jane Reyes's second book, Poeta en San Francisco, explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture. We immediately... Read More »
People reviews Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson (3 out of 4 stars) Innocence, it seems, can be hard to crush: Nine-year-old Sandrine Miller--the straight-A student in 1970s New Orleans who narrates Johnson's... Read More »	The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reviews Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson One of the appealing facets of this character is her love of books and reading, her devotion to letter-writing. Like many lonely young girls, she finds solace in... Read More »
Booklist reviews Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson Growing up in New Orleans in the 1970s, Sandrine is proud to be black, but because she is light-skinned and very smart, the black kids think she is stuck-up, and... Read More »	MELUS (Multi Ethnic Literature in the US) Journal reviews Gravities of Center by Barbara Jane Reyes Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes's debut book of poetry, Gravities of Center, opens with an invocation echoing with the loss and longing of exile: "Found" asks... Read More »

Fang-tastic Books reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear I like a book to surprise me. And this one did. Cassie and Leidolf are the two main characters and are fun to read- they are so into each other right from the... Read More »	The Good, the reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear Somehow I missed reading this Terry Spear book back in August or even September. Shame on me, because it’s a terrific read. Ms. Spear has definitely come into her... Read More »
POETRY reviews I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley Perhaps as a countercurrent to the disintegration constantly threatening its speakers, Jukebox is filled with efforts to catch and clench. A woman presses her hand... Read More »	Colleen's Reads reviews Flesh and Grass by Libby Cone "...The battery of my Sony Reader ran down while I was reading the ebook, and rather than waiting a few hours for it to recharge, I continued reading on my laptop... Read More »
Examiner reviews By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum Read More »	Shelf Awareness reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild In How to Get Divorced by 30, Rothchild recalls her walk down the aisle at 27 and the decision she made to end the union less than three years later. But there's... Read More »
YouTube reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild Dating in Miami can be a bit tough. Miami Beach native and author of How to Get Divorced by 30, Sascha Rothchild, gives us some friendly advice on how to take on... Read More »	Edge reviews BLOOD STRANGERS: A Memoir by Kathy Briccetti impressive memoir...this book, "quiet" by industry standards, is more gripping than most big press memoirs that are efficiently marketable with the one-line blurb... Read More »
Literarymama.com reviews BLOOD STRANGERS: A Memoir by Kathy Briccetti Blood Strangers, a new memoir by Kathy Briccetti is both a coming out and coming-of-age story as well as a genealogical mystery, which untangles a multi-... Read More »	O, The Oprah Magazine reviews Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch For his acclaimed debut, Finn, Jon Clinch borrowed from Mark Twain, telling the story of Huckleberry Finn's malicious father. In his masterful and compassionate... Read More »