Published Reviews

Bloomsbury Review reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan Embarking on an ambitious, solemn, and passionate quest into a maze of his own making, the muse-poet in Bryce Milligan's latest collection of... Read More »	Orion Magazine reviews Yellowcake by Ann Cummins Kinds of damage and forms of compensation propel this engaging debut novel by Ann Cummins. She avoids cheap rhetoric and easy judgments about a local environmental... Read More »
The Feminist Review reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover Paul Hoover, author of Edge and Fold, amazes his readers with postmodern poetry. His newest work is a compilation separated into two poems: "Edge and Fold... Read More »	The Great American Pinup. reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover The title of Paul Hoover’s Edge and Fold suggests that the lines of poetry that run through the book approach the limit of the page (the edge) or are cut off in... Read More »
Stride Magazine reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover Poems in Spanish is haunted by a ghostly presence throughout, whether it be of the poet's dead father or a kind of landscape of the mind, which is also, one feels... Read More »	Pleiades 27.2 (2007): 211-215 reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover The title of Paul Hoover's ninth collection of poetry is misleading. Poems in Spanish is not, in fact, written in Spanish. Instead, Hoover presents a variety of... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Paradise Farm by Brenda Webster Using a spare prose style resonant with clues to the catastrophic times ahead, Webster deftly conveys a period of social history when women began voicing their... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Last Good Freudian by Brenda Webster ``I was born and brought up to be in psychoanalysis and, as a result, much of my adult life was spent on the couch.'' Thus begins Brenda Webster's new memoir,... Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews Sins of the Mothers by Brenda Webster More than any novel of recent memory, Sins of the Mothers is reminiscent of Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife. Novels about women... Read More »	The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Red Ant House by Ann Cummins Part of the pleasure of this collection is the way Cummins pushes the boundaries of language, transforming the mundane into something strikingly new. Read More »

Amazon Reviews reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson 5 out of 5 stars This memoir is really two stories braided together. First, the writing. Many blogketeers today have a disregard for proper English. I approached... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Detroit Free Press reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Zaslow, who lives in West Bloomfield and writes a column for the Wall Street Journal, is the guy who made the world poignantly aware of Dr. Randy Pausch, the... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Kirkus reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Through his popular "Moving On" column in the Wall Street Journal, which focuses on transitions in women's friendships, Zaslow (co-author: The Last Lecture, 2008)... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Orlando Sentinel reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Sentinel staffer Jean Patteson weighs in today, with a look at Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls From Ames, out today. If you’re a woman reading The Girls from Ames, you... Read More »
Beat The Bloomsbury Review (Vol. 29, Issue 5) reviews Beat by amy l. boaz Beat AMY BOAZ The Permanent Press, $26.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-57962-186-5 A book person of note, when asked how he could tell whether a manuscript was any good,... Read More »	CC Chronicles reviews The Chimera Seed by Matthew Tully "What would you do if you had discovered and controlled the fountain of youth? That is the question Michael must face when he inherits his father's business. With... Read More »
New Pages reviews Girl on a Bridge by Suzanne Frischkorn Girl on a Bridge Poetry by Suzanne Frischkorn Main Street Rag Books, March 2010 ISBN-10: 1599482266 ISBN 13: 978-1-59948-226-2 Paperback: 57pp; $14.00 Review by... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch Kings of the Earth displays a "subtle brilliance...so vibrant that you feel the bite of a northern wind, smell the rankness of dissipated lives and experience the... Read More »
Coffee Time Romance & More reviews The Commander's Desire by Jennette Green An exciting and interesting historical, this book kept my attention and is one that I enjoyed reading. The murder and mayhem are very well written and are... Read More »	Anna's Book Blog reviews Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear Thoughts: This latest installment in the werewolf series is one of my favorites, along with the first book Heart of the Wolf. There is always something fresh and... Read More »