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Diane LeBow Shares her Thoughts on "Melanie's Song" The President Emerita of Bay Area Travel Writers, Diane LeBow, gives her thoughts on Joanna Biggar's new novel,"Melanie's Song." "In Melanie's Song, Joanna Biggar takes you along on an amazing ride of mystery and intriguing details, combining personal turbulence masterfully set against the reality of the politics of the '60s and '70s in the USA. Her writing, both crisp and lyrical, draws you into each scene with suspense and tempting detail. Of course, there are those earlier memories of Paris. It's quite a trip." —Diane … [Read more...]

Bastille Day By Joanna Biggar When J.J., the narrator of That Paris Year, departed after finishing her exams, she left in June, too early to catch the extravaganza that is le quatorze juillet in Paris. But she knew about the legendary festivities she had missed in her adopted city: fireworks, parades, the laying of wreaths for the heroic dead—, with “le grand Charles” de Gaulle himself saluting from a grandstand. J.J. already had her own, American-flavored July 4th sensibility, as she remembered lighting sparklers and pinwheels while eating home-made peach ice cream in … [Read more...]

Rose Solari's Interview in The Kenyon Review Shows Us What it Means to be a Literary Citizen Kristina Marie Darling from the Kenyon Review sat down with ASP Co-Founder and poet, Rose Solari to talk literary citizenship, ASP, and editing as a career. ASP Co-Founder and poet, Rose Solari. Read the Kenyon Review's interview with Rose Solari Here The Kenyon Review recently published an interview with ASP's own Rose Solari concerning several different operational and philosophical aspects of the modern independent press. One of the questions that the interviewer, … [Read more...]

Anne Lamott and Jasmin Darznik Share their thoughts on Navigating the Divide "Bird by Bird" author, Anne Lamott, and bestselling author of "Song of a Captive Bird," Jasmin Darznik, praise Linda Watanabe McFerrin's new Legacy Book. "I have loved everything I've ever read by Linda Watanabe McFerrin. Her prose and poetry are filled with amazing women, charm, wisdom, and light. She is both soulful and precise, eloquent and full of life." —Anne Lamott, author of "Bird by Bird" PRE-ORDER NAVIGATING THE DIVIDE Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels, Hard … [Read more...]

The Contemporary Poets and Musicians on Reuben Jackson's Mind Poet and jazz scholar, Reuben Jackson, discusses three contemporary poets and three contemporary jazz musicians he admires. Saxophonist Kamasi Washington (left) and rapper/poet Tarica June (right) are among the six artists discussed by Reuben Jackson. On Tuesday we ran an article featuring two glowing blurbs for Reuben Jackson's latest poetry collection Scattered Clouds. They came from two young stalwarts of the American poetry community: National Book Award winner, Terrance Hayes, and Maryland's own Abdul Ali, author … [Read more...]