Tidbits and Courses, Not Whole Meals: A Review of David Sedaris' A CARNIVAL OF SNACKERY
David Sedaris A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020, Little, Brown and Company/Hatchette Book Group / 2021 / 576 pp / $32.00...
Reviews and Interviews
A Conversation with Caitlin Hamilton Summie
by Elaine Neil Orr Caitlin Hamilton Summie's Geographies of the Heart, Fomite, 2022. Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, General...
REVIEW: VIRGINIA WOOLF'S MRS. DALLOWAY by Robin Black
Robin Black Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Ig Publishing / 2022 / $14.95 /176 pp Reviewed by Robin Lippincott From One Writer to Another...
REVIEW: DEAR DAMAGE by Ashley Marie Farmer
Ashley Marie Farmer Dear Damage Sarabande Books / 2022 / $16.95 / 200 pp Reviewed by Laura Johnsrude Early in 2014, in a Nevada hospital...
REVIEW: AMERICA by Fernando Valverde
Fernando Valverde America Translated by Carolyn Forche Copper Canyon Press / 2021 / $18.00 / 176pp Reviewed by Jeremy Paden Hacer la...
Review: PINE by Julia Koets
Julia Koets's poetry collection PINE, reviewed by Lynnell Edwards.
Tender Spaces: Verse Novels Provide Healing and Hope for Middle-Grade Readers
Reviewed by Dana VanderLugt During the fourteen years I taught middle school English, one of the best parts of my job was playing book...
Circles of Life: From the Inside Out in Voice Lessons: Essays
Karen Salyer McElmurray Voice Lessons: Essays Iris Press / 2021 / 128 pp / $20 Reviewed by Elaine Neil Orr The longest and most expensive...
Book Review of Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
Lauren Redniss Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West Random House / 2020 / 288 pp/ $30.00 Hardcover / $20.00 Paperback...
Kentucky Book Festival Highlights: An Interview with Director Sara Volpi
by Good River Review staff The Kentucky Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a weeklong festival, November 1-6,...
Coming Home: A Review of Jayne Moore Waldrop’s Drowned Town
Jayne Moore Waldrop Drowned Town University Press of Kentucky / 2021 / 254 pp / 24.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth Hall Magill Poet Jayne Moore...
Politics, Prose, and Foreignness in Recent Romance Language Lyric Poetry
Berenguer, Amanda/Materia Prima: Selected Poems of Amanda Berenguer/Eds. Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson/Ugly Duckling Presse/2019/$22...
Curating an Inclusive Bookshelf: Children’s Books that Celebrate Diversity and Inspire Compassion
reviewed by Kate Bustillos Jasmine Warga Other Words for Home Balzer + Bray/2019/332 pp/16.99 hardback I read Jasmine Warga’s Other Words...
Book Review: BEST DEBUT STORIES 2020: THE PEN AMERICA DAU PRIZE
Yuka Igarashi, Editor Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America DAU Prize Catapult / 2020 / 240 pp/ 16.95 Reviewed by R. L. Mullins...
Emma Cline Keeps Her Secrets: A Review of DADDY
Daddy, reviewed by Brent Coughenour
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Race and the American Dream in HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD
How Much of These Hills is Gold, reviewed by Elizabeth Hall Magill
Trying to Solve the Puzzle of It: Review of Melissa Faliveno's TOMBOYLAND
Reviewed by JoAnne E. Lehman
Review of under the aegis of a winged mind by Makalani Bandele
Makalani Bandele’s first full-length collection is a stunning jazz fantasia that thrums with Bandele’s deep knowledge of music and the post-
Mixing It Up: The Intimacy of Storytelling in What Are You Going Through
reviewed by Dianne Aprile Sigrid Nunez’s latest novel, What are You Going Through, embodies the fourth criterion in Italo Calvino’s list
review of Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive
Near the end of her memoir, Natasha Trethewey remarks, “To survive trauma, one must be able to tell a story about it.”
An Ableist Reckoning for the Literary Canon: Review of Cyborg Detective
I find myself meditating on the phrase “don’t let your disability define you” since reading Jillian Weise’s poetry collection Cyborg Detecti
‘Letting the Work Create You’: A Conversation with Pico Iyer
An optimist, as sure-footed in his personal path as in his travel writing. A man who resides on two continents, spending half . . .
review of Zadie Smith's Intimations
At less than 100 pages, this slim volume of essays describes an arc from March 29, 2020, two weeks into the national lockdown . . .
review of Julia Phillips's Disappearing Earth
Set on the remote Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east, this debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, revolves around . . .
review of Dinty W. Moore's To Hell with It...
At his inauguration President Biden said, “Many centuries ago, Saint Augustine, a saint of my church, wrote that a people was . . .
'Keeping the Unknowable Alive': A Conversation with Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet talks with Katy Yocom about her newest book, A Children's Bible.
'A Community Can Create a High Tide': A Conversation with Kevin Willmott
In September and October 2020, Kevin and I spoke about his career as a screenwriter, filmmaker, activist, and professor.