How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, Quincy Scott Jones’ poetry collection, crawls into the bloodstream, lays in wait, … More
Tag: C&R Press
Selling the Farm, a C&R Press lyric memoir by Debra Di Blasi, reviewed by Aimee Parkison
Selling the Farm, winner of C&R Press Nonfiction Award, defies traditional notions of genre. This lyrical memoir is a biography … More
“Welcome to the California Club”: TWO CALIFORNIAS, a C&R Press short story collection by Robert Glick, reviewed by Feliz Moreno
There are nuggets of gold sprinkled throughout Robert Glick’s debut story collection Two Californias. The characters in these stories traverse … More
THE MIRACLES, the third poetry collection by Amy Lemmon, reviewed by Leonard A. Temme
Amy Lemmon’s new book of poems, The Miracles, dedicated to her two children—her two miracles—tells the story of a smart, … More
Leonard Temme Reviews Laura Catherine Brown’s Novel MADE BY MARY
Made by Mary is an intimate, compelling, tightly plotted, enjoyable novel about an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship. The mother is the … More
WHILE YOU WERE GONE, a novel by Sybil Baker, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
While You Were Gone is a lovely read. It’s thoughtful, and deeply felt, and well-written, and structured with competence. It … More
Lessons in Camouflage, a poetry collection by Martin Ott, reviewed by Micah Zevin
Can we ever leave war behind and not remember its images, its roles, and deaths, or will it forever follow … More
An Excerpt of Laura Catherine Brown’s Comic Novel MADE BY MARY
Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women, mothers, daughters and motherhood. … More
“Lennon and the Spectacles of Fandom”: An Interview with Christopher Bundy by Daniel J. Cecil
I recently re-watched Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. I was house sitting for someone with a television. It was on … More