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Indie Review: Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine A Slow Burn Everything about Jessica “Jess” is a slow burn. From the way she yearns …

Indie Review: Not My Ruckus by Chad Musick Not My Ruckus is a disturbing and compelling novel told from an unusual perspective. While not labeled …

Interview: George Mercer, Author of Harking 2018 and 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist, George worked for more than three decades as a national …

Feature: YA, A Love Story   “Calling a book ‘young adult’ is only important in that it can help get a book to the right …

Shelf Unbound congratulates author Lisa Braxton whose book, The Talking Drum, was selected as the 2020 Indie Book Award winner.  Shelf Unbound has been selecting …

Indie Review: The Living Days by Ananda Devi, Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman A Realistic Fairy Tale.  Kirkus describes The Living Days as “a gorgeously written, …

Interview: Stephen Snyder. Translator for The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa “It’s difficult to imagine a world without translated literature and other forms of writing. …

Interview: Robert Chandler. Translator of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad Inspired by his love of Russian folk tales and a desire to share them with English friends, …

Interview: Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, Translators of Garden By The Sea Mercè Rodoreda’s novel Garden by the Sea is a story that drifts; filled …

Black Authors in English Translation Vera Wülfing-LeckeDoomi Golo—The Hidden NotebooksAuthor: Boubacar Boris DiopPublisher: Michigan State University Press (2016)Country/language: Senegal/French Allison M. CharetteBeyond the Rice FieldsAuthor: …