Book Review: Alston Moor
Review: Alston Moor by Anne Charnock Goldsmiths Press, University of London, 2026 I find myself distracted by people within earshot at exhibitions or museums, with their inane chatter, phone noise, …
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Book review: The Shark House by Sara Ackerman
Sara Ackerman’s novel The Shark House is a richly layered, atmospheric love letter to sharks — as well as the oceans and other animals — that unravels mysteries both immediate and deeply …
Book Review: The Tortoise’s Tale by Kendra Coulter
Years ago, when I was in the Galápagos Islands, a fellow traveler asked how long tortoises live. Our guide’s answer was: “We don’t know.” No human has yet lived long …
Book Review: North of the Sunlit River by Jessica Bryant Klagmann
In her novel North of the Sunlit River, Jessica Bryant Klagmann’s characters face grief and loss amid beautiful depictions of the natural world, from Alaska to New Mexico. Eila Jacobsen is …
Book Review: Waiting For Al Gore
By Bob Katz To an event organizer, Bob Katz’s novel, Waiting For Al Gore, will read like a horror story, but for those worried about how we will organize ourselves …
Book Review: The Stark Beauty of Last Things
by Céline Keating Review by JoeAnn Hart The Stark Beauty of Last Things, a novel by Céline Keating The driving force of this touching novel, The Stark Beauty of Last …
New and forthcoming environmental books (October 2023)
So many books, so little time. Here are a few titles that came across our radar as of late… be sure to check them out! Hitman for the Kindness ClubHigh …
Submission Weekend thoughts…
Labor Day weekend was, for me, Submission Weekend. Many literary journals are now open for submissions, and I’m not wasting any time. The first time I submitted to a journal, …
Book Review: Query, a Novel by Zilla Novikov
A tRaum Press and Night Beats book, 2023 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Query, a Novel, is snack-sized, but it took me a while to read because I kept laughing coffee …
Love is War: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag
Boy meets girl. Girl goes veg. Boy goes off the deep end. And so begins this heartfelt, occasionally hilarious and generally brilliant graphic novel about one man’s struggle to resist …
Eco-Fiction, Edited by John Stadler
The stories in Eco-Fiction, most written in the mid-20th century, are by very well-known authors. Some are sci-fi, some are dated, and others are sadly prescient, such as Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” which makes the connection between authoritarianism and ecological disaster.