Published Reviews

LA Times reviews Saving Angelfish by Michele Matheson "A flawlessly executed study of a life that's fully dissolved." Read More »	KQED Arts reviews Saving Angelfish by Michele Matheson "Her novel of addiction, of coming close to bottoming out…rings as true as any memoir I've read." Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Saving Angelfish by Michele Matheson Matheson's promising debut, a gritty novel from Tin House Books' New Voice Series, tells the bleak story of a wayward L.A. junkie named Max. Virtually disowned by... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon In this edgy, energetic, even frenetic debut from a rising star of the Midwest, Lemon's jagged, commanding voice both charms and shocks: “Voice, be amazing/... Read More »
CutBank Reviews reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "Lemon’s passion and vulnerability will strip bare your conscience. There will be only scars remaining where doubt used to be—in places you never thought there... Read More »	Pebble Lake Review reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "With its popping language, lucid narrative and striking imagery, Lemon seems to have greedily plundered the entire scope of contemporary poetry for what may be... Read More »
Third Coast reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "His speakers are unrelenting in their quest to remain focused on life’s true and pure moments despite, or rather because of, their fear. Alex Lemon’s poems... Read More »	Southern Review reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "Brave and exciting work." Read More »
The Midwest Book Review reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "Mosquito is an enigmatic, engaging read. Ideal for those who enjoy formal and experimental poetry alike, Alex Lemon's book is a truly remarkable debut." Read More »	LA Times reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith "Zak Smith, with uninhibited bravado and exactly the right kind of insanity, has done something remarkable in [Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas... Read More »

http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/la-ep-19.html reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "Zabrisky was a bright light of wow, the way she performed a gorgeous story to music, in way-high heels, and shouted into the microphone while waving a fist in... Read More »	Detroit Free Press reviews BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD by Sean Chercover Thrilling. **** (4 out of 4 stars) Read More »
Fresh Ink (Canada) reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks The characters here, whether humourous, tragic, or mildly absurd are likeable, believable, and not always predictable--ordinary people, but with quirks that make... Read More »	Gifted and Talented Child Blog reviews THE HAPPINESS TREE: Celebrating the gifts of trees we treasure by Andrea Alban Gosline “ ... this is a book that sings! The rhyming text is unique and musical and the illos are vibrant and melodious. This is not your average picture book. In it,... Read More »
The Horn Book Magazine reviews HARLEY'S NINTH by Cat Bauer This sequel to Harley, Like a Person (rev.5/00) follows sixteen-year-old Harley during one momentous day. Having discovered her birth father, Sean, in the first... Read More »	Out State Magazine reviews Perfect for Framing by Maggie Bishop Our State Magazine, February 2009 reviewed by Elizabeth Langfahl Boone author Maggie Bishop brings back carpenter, photographer, and unabashed “SCI” wannabe Jemma... Read More »
Amazon.co.uk reviews The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy by Gina Collia-Suzuki A delightfully humorous book which is a must read for anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of bad neighbours. The story of a young couple who move into a new... Read More »	Publisher reviews Vampire Boy's Good Night by Lisa Brown Read More »
Blogcritics.com reviews Jane Was Here by Sarah Kernochan Graynier, Massachusetts doesn’t make much of a first impression. There’s “no design or reason for anything to be where it is.” Wandering down its “anarchic streets... Read More »	Gloom Cupboard reviews Versus by Stacia M Fleegal "In total, Versus is a lyrical essay, a call to arms reminiscent of those proffered by the famous pamphleteers of the American Revolution. Like any good essay,... Read More »