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The thirteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features the 2016 Poetry Workshop craft talk by Patricia Spears Jones, essays by Victoria Patterson, Molly

Bibliocracy Radio is a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry,

It was such a pleasure to talk about books with journalist Matt Szabo from my local newspaper “The Daily Pilot.” I’m a big fan of

Ben Shepherd recently asked authors and super readers for their 3 favorite reads in 2023 and I got to be one of them. Read about

Nancy A. Bekofske started blogging in 2008, writing about the books she read and the quilts she was working on. Over the years she’s added

David Gutowski (aka the Large Hearted Boy) is a music-loving man who lives in Brooklyn, though his heart is deep in the American South. His

Gracias to Theresa Bourke of the Brainerd Dispatch for this thoughtful review of Those People Behind Us. Bourke said this: “Camarillo’s characters are so real

  The New York Times recently listed ten books that help “explain California.” Although Susan Straight’s excellent novel Mecca was included (and also included in Part One of

When “Those People Behind Us” received an 8.5 out of 10 score from the folks at the BookLife Prize, I admit I wasn’t particularly pleased.

  Women Writers, Women’s Books is an online literary magazine by and about contemporary women writers from around the world. Barbara Bos, Managing Editor, launched

My great realization when my dad was transferred from Charlotte, North Carolina to Santa Monica back in 1966 was that, despite all those Beach Boy

I was fourteen in 1966 when my father came home from his job at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Charlotte, North Carolina and announced that