Books with Impact
A Book Review by Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s Executive Director Pete Warzel. “After planting and harvesting crops for over forty years, you would think a being might finally comprehend the ephemeral nature of all things. Not, alas, this one.” — Stanley Crawford, […]
By David Steinberg / For The Journal. Two children’s books out this month deal with issues of importance to young readers, and, no less, to adults. . . .“Evan and the Skygoats” [is] written by Vanessa Vassar and illustrated by Ophelia Cornet, […]
Hilary Leichter of Electric Lit interviews the author of Nickel on the codes, traumas & mysteries of teens: In the new novel Nickel (Leaf Storm Press 2016), we meet Coy and Monroe, two best friends with hundreds of pop culture references at their […]
About a dozen years ago, I brought the writer Tom Perrotta to the school where I teach. Tom’s novel Little Children had just been published to much acclaim so, in addition to assigning the work to my eleventh graders, I offered to lead […]
Leaf Storm Press to publish a new novel by Stanley Crawford, the renowned author of A Garlic Testament and Mayordomo Santa Fe, NM– July 15, 2016. Leaf Storm Press announced today that it will publish Village, a new novel by Stanley […]
Epicurious.com has picked Lynn Cline‘s The Maverick Cookbook (with photos and food styling by Guy Ambrosino and Kate Winslow of And We Ate) as one of The 30 Most Exciting New Fall Cookbooks, 2015 “I have been looking for a good New […]
Excerpts from the review: “Not since Horace Greeley has the American West had such a vocal advocate….Nakamura blends fact, fable, and fantasy in a vision that goes well beyond the West being a place where the deer and antelope play. “Go west! […]
Joel Nakamura turns his post-Pop, swirling mix of psychedelia to the myths, legends, and cultural mainstays of the Southwest in Go West!, a new book for children published by Leaf Storm Press next month. There’s no narrative — just the simple command […]
Sarah Stark’s new novel, Out There, is one of the recommended small press titles in the recent issue of the Colorado Review: “Think of Stark’s work as an homage to magical realism itself, a lyrical and lush work about the meaning a […]
EAGLE NEST— In Sarah Stark’s new novel “Out There” her main character Jefferson Long Soldier never makes it to the Moreno Valley during his journeys across New Mexico and Mexico. But if he ever did Stark said that her protagonist, who had […]
