Published Reviews

Newsday reviews The Caretaker of Lorne Field by Dave Zeltserman Every man, woman, child - not to mention dog and plant - owes its life to Jack Durkin. Had he and nine generations of Durkins before him not been weeding a field... Read More »	http://thewrittenuniverse.blogspot.com/ reviews A SIGH FOR LIFE'S COMPLETION by Sara Kuhns Kuhns weaves an intricate story whose characters fairly leap off the page. The characters are all clearly defined and could easily support books on their own. Even... Read More »
http://www.infernaldreams.net/books.html reviews A SIGH FOR LIFE'S COMPLETION by Sara Kuhns That Sara Kuhns has a great command of the English language is readily apparent from start to finish in this lengthy novel of 401 pages. And that should come as no... Read More »	Jacket Magazine reviews d.a.levy and the mimeograph revolution by Larry R. Smith Yes, d.a.levy & the mimeograph revolution, edited by Bottom Dog publisher Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg, portrays levy as both Cleveland partisan and... 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 »	Five Monkies reviews The Elf Queen by Barbara Mountjoy I have been reading some really great books lately. One of them that I was recently sent was The Elf Queen by Lyndi Alexander. Mrs. Alexander is mom to 7 (and I... Read More »
Texas Books in Review reviews The Holdouts by Sherry Clements For Martha, who is landlocked in Arkansas during the 1960s and ’70s, the Gulf of Mexico is a pirate’s paradise of monkeys swinging from coconut trees and Texas... Read More »	About.com Blues reviews Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Brad Schreiber "Based on over 100 interviews with people who were there at the beginning of Jimi's career, many of whom have never previously spoken on the record, authors Steven... Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews Baked by former member The first sentence of "Baked," the new thriller by Mark Haskell Smith, features a four-letter profanity. The second sentence goes: "He walked out of his house and... Read More »	Baltimore City Paper reviews Baked by former member Los Angeles crime novelist Mark Haskell Smith has always harbored a comically ludicrous streak. From his 2002 debut Moist (in which a tattoo on a woman’s severed... Read More »

PowellsBooks.Blog http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-favorite-poetry-books-of-the-past-year reviews "Between Soul and Stone" by Margo Berdeshevsky "One of my all-time favorite poets...Her latest book, Between Soul and Stone, is incredible. This may sound trite, but I can't help but identify Berdeshevsky's... Read More »	Booklist reviews Savage Hunger by Terry Spear Savage Hunger. Spear, Terry (Author) Oct 2012. 352 p. Sourcebooks/Casablanca, paperback, $7.99. (9781402266928). Spear has left the werewolves of her past... Read More »
The Statesman reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey There’s a saying in Hindi which goes: dhobi ka kutta, na ghar ka, na ghat ka. The washerman's dog doesn't know where he belongs, whether at home or at the ghats... Read More »	The New York Times reviews Small Damages by Beth Kephart “Dreamlike” is one word for Beth Kephart’s latest novel, Small Damages, in which an American teenager is exiled to Spain after she gets pregnant. Her percolating... Read More »
The Pedestal Magazine reviews Chains & Mirrors by Alex Grant It’s easy to see why Alex Grant’s chapbook Chains & Mirrors won both the 2006 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Contest and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young... Read More »	Portland Tribune reviews Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs -- Even If You're Right by June Casagrande Casagrande exhibits total comfort with her topic. Every chapter focuses on a seeming fallacy of grammar and then discloses whether it is, in fact, wrong. She is... Read More »
The Sandusky Register reviews The Long River Home: A Novel by Larry R. Smith Larry Smith is the author of 12 books, a publisher who has put out more than 100 books, a filmmaker who has worked on documentaries about writers James Wright... Read More »	Mortgage Orb reviews Growing Up Levittown: In a Time of Conformity, Controversy and Cultural Crisis by Steve Bergsman In the years following World War II, the town of Hempstead, N.Y., became the center of a real estate revolution when developer William Levitt created a new... Read More »
LA Weekly reviews Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas “…Funny in Farsi, is an enjoyably and believably simplistic reminder of how good — despite bigger and wealthier men’s attempts to muck it up — we have it here….” Read More »	Chico Enterprise Record/ Buzz Arts Supplement reviews To Grandmother's House: A Visit to Old-Town Beijing by Douglas R Keister Chico writer/photographer's delicious new children's book features old Beijing Time was when Chico's Doug Keister loped around the country photographing... Read More »