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 »

Newsblaze reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes Eric Barnes has a smash debut novel hitting upon a subject that is clearly newsworthy. Shimmer is based upon one of the oldest money-making plots known as "The... Read More »	AOL's Gadling Travel reviews The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India by Shelley Seale Author Shelley Seale’s discovery of this human tragedy led her life in a whole new direction, and it is this that gives the book its impetus. Besides her personal... Read More »
BC Blogcritics reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild The idealist in me wasn’t entirely certain that our society needed even a tongue-in-cheek primer on how to end a marriage. Yet, if one looks objectively at the... Read More »	Barnes and Noble online reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Full of the magic, mystery, and full-bodied characters readers have come to expect of the best South American fiction, The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos is as... Read More »
Five Books reviews The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew JH Sharp ... It is a wonderful story following two children: one colonial, one native African. It’s just out – very new. I thought: yes, this is a pretty rare book; whoever... Read More »	Midwest Review reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear "To Tempt the Wolf is an extremely enjoyable and fascinating read. I am impressed with the way Spears has added her own unique twist, mixing it into the realm of... Read More »
Kirkus reviews Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Susan VanHecke With its focus on overcoming adversity and creating positive situations, the narrative could devolve into a blathering self-help book, but Kohler and co-author... Read More »	Style Weekly reviews Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Susan VanHecke Kohler's story couldn't be timelier for the young men and women navigating the war zones of today. Read More »
Oakland Press reviews Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out by Susan VanHecke Filled with anecdotes, insights and frank opinions, Roadwork is a breezy and warm insider's view of the music world told by someone who loved the life and the... Read More »	Harriet Klausner, Genre-Go-Around reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear "No one makes werewolves seem real better than romantic urban fantasist Terry Spear continually does with her “Wolf” saga (see Legend of the White Wolf, To Tempt a... Read More »