Published Reviews

China Insight reviews Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants by John Jung The “Chop Suey Craze” that engulfed large American and Canadian cities in the early decades of the 20th century (see http://www.asian-studies.org/eaa/... Read More »	Huffington Post reviews Barbed-Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie On first glance, Jessica Kristie's debut novel has a distinct Dickens' like narrative: Kidnapped pre-teen children living out a meager existence as slave labor of... 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 »	http://ghettosun.com/2012/12/19/soulful-ii-in-review/ reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "And then there was the Russian literary sensation Zarina Zabrisky. I could use a thousand fancy adjectives to describe how amazing her performance was but... Read More »
Los Angeles Review of Books reviews How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom DID THE FRENCH INVENT LOVE? Or would it be more true to say that love is endlessly reinvented every moment, in every culture, every epoch? What the French did is... Read More »	The South Carolina Review reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens Owens's style is direct, unadorned, and consists of simple sentence, followed by a comma, then one clause and another and another . . . . There is absolutely no... Read More »
The Momus Report reviews All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge! by J Marc Schmidt "...heartfelt and occasionally raw in its observational detail." "All You Bastards... shows how far Schmidt is willing to push the boat out to develop his craft -... Read More »	Midwest Book Review reviews Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine by Susan Alcorn Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine is an engaging travelogue about the 2009 adventure that author Susan Alcorn and her husband had following the... Read More »
Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34 No. 2 reviews Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj The theme of light and geography throughout the volume plots the layers of family and history through three continents and over several generations.... Read More »	Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34 No. 2 reviews Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj The theme of light and geography throughout the volume plots the layers of family and history through three continents and over several generations. The... Read More »

The New York Times reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Yan's use of shifting perspectives -- including that of the narrator herself, who confesses her ''surprise'' at the unpredictable behavior of her imagined... Read More »	Blogster.com reviews East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres by Andrew Q Lam Andrew Lam’s California is one of cultural collision, a land of fusion cuisine and religious diversity, a land shaped byimmigrants and the spices they bring... Read More »
TIME Asia Edition reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Geling Yan serves up a tasty tale of desire and corruption in China... Read More »	Inspiring Gardeners for 100 Years: Horticulture magazine reviews Working the Dirt (anthology); "Take Me Down That Row One More Time, Green-Eyed Boy" by Bonnie G Roberts From interview: "I think dirt is the reason I have spent my whole life in the South," offers Huntsville, Alabama poet, Bonnie Roberts, whose poem "Take Me Down... Read More »
Entertainment Weekly reviews I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead turns out to be one of the most casually insightful rock bios ever." Read More »	Associated Press reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes "The Anatomist" (Ballantine Books, 304 pages, $24.95), by Bill Hayes: Before surgery videos, medical dramas, House and McDreamy laid bare the body's... Read More »
The Veritas Magazine reviews The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God by Dr. Steve McSwain Being from a non-religious background I will admit to circling around this book several times before biting into it. The title seemed a little daunting and,... Read More »	Sunset Magazine reviews Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas R Keister Keister has done for cemetery exploration what Audubon did for birding. Read More »
Marie Claire reviews AIR Vol. 1: Letters from Lost Countries by G. Willow Wilson MC Book Club: Air by G. Willow Wilson This month, the MC Book Club takes on a graphic novel about a neurotic stewardess out to save the world in G. Willow Wilson's... Read More »	Blogging Authors, Amazon, and other places reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks For those readers fortunate enough to have read Christopher Meeks’ first short story collection - THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN AND THE SEA - and discovered the... Read More »