Great KIRKUS review of Acre’s first 2019 title—Matthew Kirkpatrick’s innovative and affecting novel due out next month!
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Chard deNiord reviews AFTER THE AFTERLIFE
Thanks to On the Seawall host Ron Slate, and to Chard deNiord, for this lovely review of After the Afterlife: “In poem after poem, the personal crosses over to the universal; particulars grow immense, irony disarms sobriety, erudition underpins inspiration, and pathos...
Sneak Peak at Joanna Pearson’s Story Collection
A sample of Joanna Pearson’s stellar writing has just appeared in Ecotone. “Ouro Preto” is among the terrific stories in her collection Every Human Love, due out from Acre this May!
Hicks: Three Powerful Essays and a Micro
Faylita Hicks, whose debut poetry collection, HoodWitch, is forthcoming from Acre this October, has published three powerful essays of late—one in Slate, one in HuffPost, and one in the Texas Observer. And Cincinnati Review selected her work for its weekly Micro...
Dow in San Francisco Chronicle
XXXXThanks to David Roderick and the San Francisco Chronicle for this thoughtful look at Hannah Dow’s “Postcard from the Salton Sea”!
Interview with Hannah Dow
XXXXAn absorbing exchange between two wonderfully insightful poets, Hannah Dow and Danielle Cadena Deulen. Thanks, Oxford Writers’ House! Read A Piece of Oneself into the World.
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 6
Photo Credit: Elizabeth CodyWe complete our Holiday Sampler series with a pesky li’l sample from Acre’s first poetry offering—by T. R. Hummer—about which Derek Mong recently noted: “The pleasure of After the Afterlife is in watching a masterful American poet try to...
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 5
In Part 5 of Acre’s Holiday Sampler, we check in with Jenn Scott, whose story collection, Her Adult Life, just made the longlist for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In the passage Jenn selected, two restaurant staffers and antagonists—the...
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 4
We continue our review of Acre’s 2018 titles with The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist—a novel that the Los Angeles Review of Books aptly described as “not so much a character study or psychological novel as a meditation on the power of pain—the...
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 3
We continue to look back at our premiere year’s titles. This time out we’re featuring Sara Kersting, another debut Acre author, whose taut mystery/psychological thriller DUTY TO WARN, released this October, garnered a starred review from FOREWORD, which called it...