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Paths to Publication: Small Presses and University Presses

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It surprises me, and makes me a little sad, when I hear writers say they have given up on a book manuscript. Either they have an agent who has exhausted […]

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Oink, A Review

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OINK Exisle Publishing, November 2019 By Renée Hollis     There is a saying in the book reviewer world, that if you review a book with a pig on the […]

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Brevity Review, by Debbie Hagan

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  By Debbie Hagan As I read JoeAnn Hart’s page-turning memoir/crime story, Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s, I traveled back some forty years […]

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Allowed to Grow Old

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  Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals From Farm Sanctuaries  By Isa Leshko Foreword by Sy Montgomery Essays by Gene Baur and Anne Wilkes Tucker University of Chicago […]

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Interview, Los Angeles Review of Books

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I Could Not Even Trust My Own Mind: Dinah Lenney Interviews JoeAnn Hart Dinah Lenney interviews JoeAnn Hart AUGUST 14, 2019 “IT WAS IN THE SPRING of 1999, during the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it buildup to […]

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In Praise of Small Presses

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Nice interview about my experience with the University of Iowa Press and Ashland Creek Press with Chris Kinneally on the Beyond the Book podcast. In Praise of Small Presses

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The Narrow Edge

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  The Narrow Edge By Deborah Cramer Yale University Press, 2015.  The “narrow edge” in the title of this engaging book by Deborah Cramer evokes the image of comedian Harold […]

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Zoologies

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Zoologies, On Animals and the Human Spirit (Milkweed Editions)By Alison Hawthorne DemingEvery day, as I walk from house to barn, or go up the driveway to get the mail, I […]

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2014

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Once a year, courtesy of Houghton Mifflin, we get to be wowed, disgusted, depressed, amazed, revolted, terrified, and sometimes even amused with the publication of The Best American Science and Nature […]

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Trash Animals

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How we live with nature’s filthy, feral, invasive, and unwanted species Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, editors University of Minnesota Press, 2013 In this collected cross-section of stories […]

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