Posted January 30, 2023 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Booklist reviewed Robert J. Dreesen's I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit:“Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhouse in Nebraska. Dreesen portrays the intriguing characters they met as... [Details]
Posted January 13, 2023 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Peggy Ellsberg wrote a long and glowing review of Eva Brann's Pursuits of Happiness in the Los Angeles Review of Books. “[Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested,' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . .... [Details]
Posted September 30, 2022 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Anahid Nersessian wrote a lovely review of Boris Dralyuk's My Hollywood and Other Poems in the New York Review of Books. "“Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates My... [Details]
Posted September 30, 2022 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Wall Street Journal reviewed Deborah Warren's Strange to Say, saying, "[Warren's] curiosity and embrace of the unpredictable, as well as her delight in both the archaic and the homespun, animate Strange to Say, a tour of English that savors the language's mutability." Read the full review (WSJ subscribers only). [Details]
Posted June 07, 2022 by Mara Brandsdorfer
McSweeney's, Booklist, The Poetry Foundation, and more have recently run glowing reviews of MY HOLLYWOOD AND OTHER POEMS by Boris Dralyuk. "These [poems] are the souvenirs of an almost-vanished glamour, an ethnic, gritty, free-wheeling city, little fantasias encased in rhyme and meter."—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's"Sophisticated, musical, and often humorous."—Booklist“Throughout My Hollywood, Dralyuk crafts polished... [Details]
Posted June 07, 2022 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreword Reviews and more have run rave reviews of JUST GO DOWN TO THE ROAD by James Campbell."An engrossing account of a young man discovering what he wants to do with his life."―Michael Dirda, Washington Post"This deftly written memoir . . . is the story of a... [Details]
Posted November 04, 2021 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author of She Never Told Me About the Ocean, was featured in the Nov/Dec 2021 issue of Harvard Magazine: How Myth and Memoir Intertwine. [Details]
Posted October 25, 2021 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Booklist reviewed Deborah Warren's poetry collection Connoisseurs of Worms: "Immensely engaging . . . Steeped in references to Greek and Roman history and literature, this book sings with an erudite yet accessible energy one might expect from a former Latin teacher. After finishing this collection, readers will definitely want to... [Details]
Posted February 16, 2021 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Booklist, and more have run glowing reviews of STUDYING WITH MISS BISHOP by Dana Gioia.Michael Dirda, in the Washington Post, recommended MISS BISHOP in a column on "books about books.""Highly enjoyable . . . Studying with Miss Bishop offers the opportunity... [Details]
Posted October 19, 2020 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Publishers Weekly reviewed A. M. Juster's Wonder & Wrath, saying "Juster’s poems are textured with rhyme and images that find correlatives between manmade threats and the natural world." Read the full review. [Details]