Angel Catbird, Margaret Atwood and Johnnie Christmas
Peter Marra wants to make something perfectly clear: he likes cats. The head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington loves wildlife and animals … Read more
Category Archives: Humor
The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth Mckenzie
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor Goodreads Reviews Back … Read more
Kaboom!, Brian Adams
We are pleased to showcase Brian Adams’ newest book KABOOM!, a YA eco-novel. We interviewed Brian after the publication of his recent novel Love in … Read more
Marly, Peter Gould
From Green Writers Press: So, this dude comes up from the city to take an eco-writing workshop at a little college in way-northern Vermont, where … Read more
Garapaima: A Monster Fish Novel, Mark Spitzer
A twenty-foot-long, mutated monster-fish is loose in Phantom Loon Lake, Ontario, thanks to a top secret government conspiracy to design a Freak Species of Mass … Read more
The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld
In The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld turns his keen and unflinching eye to our country today—and where we may be headed. The result is a … Read more
Home to Woefield, Susan Juby
Prudence Burns, a failed writer living in Brooklyn (her young adult novel was poorly received because it was filled with earnest young people talking about … Read more
Adventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries, Claire Datnow
Thanks to Claire Datnow for writing to tell us about her YA series, The Adventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries. There are now eight … Read more
Saving the Planet & Stuff, Gail Gauthier
Michael Racine lives in a world of highly successful and accomplished teenagers. Unfortunately, he isn’t one of them. He knows it, and he’s afraid everyone … Read more
Holy Cow, David Duchovny
Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that—her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, … Read more
Birdbrain, Virginia Arthur
Only field biologists or people-of-the-field can truly understand what it is like to see a planet in decline so for birders, botanists, ecologists, field biologists, … Read more
Mermaids in Paradise, Lydia Millet
Click here for a review at Salon. On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful … Read more
Write Naked, Peter Gould
A strikingly original debut novel that introduces two storytellers with different kinds of tales: one—in Victor’s unforgettable voice—a quirky, contemporary love story; the other—by Rose … Read more
Love in the Time of Climate Change, Brian Adams
While navigating the zaniness of teaching Casey leads a rag-tag bunch of climate activists, lusts after one of his students, and smokes a little too … Read more
The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink
This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and … Read more