WRITING DA TAIL 2015 Mahalo to everyone who wrote a sentence and participated in our collaborative community story at the 2015 Hawaii Book and Music Festival. Our “sequel” wasn’t quite as long as the story last year, but it was equally entertaining with sudden twists that were humorous, dramatic, and poignant at every turn. Writing […]
Bamboo Ridge Press has been an institution in the local literary world for the past thirty-five years, spanning 104 issues sharing the work of over 900 different authors. Every year, the publisher releases two volumes: one anthology and a single-author collection or book. For the 35th anniversary issue–an anthology–Eric Chock and Darrell Lum begin transitioning […]
NOTE: This review originally appeared in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The best Hawaiʻi fiction provides a sense of place, a sense of time and an authentic representation of the collective local culture. Tyler Miranda’s debut novel, ‘Ewa Which Way (Bamboo Ridge Press, $18) accomplishes all of these checkpoints and more, treating readers to a rich, fulfilling experience of […]
[gn_quote]Heaven has collapsed; the air is thick with broken souls, with nowhere to go[/gn_quote] Wing Tek Lum’s new collection of poetry, The Nanjing Massacre: Poems, uses the versatility of poetry to shed a profound light across the horrible atrocities rained down upon the Chinese during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Lum, inspired by the archival photographs […]
As I mentioned before, I’ve been looking forward to this book for quite awhile! So of course, once I got it, I gobbled it up immediately and, happily, I was more than satisfied with it. It was certainly worth the wait, and everything I would have expected from one of my most favoritest local authors. When I think […]
A few weeks ago, Misty received an e-mail from Lanning Lee about meeting up with a bunch of the young contributors from Bamboo Shoots who had been selected to be published in Bamboo Ridge Press‘ 100th issue. The meeting, at Native Books / Nā Mea Hawaiʻi, was a round-table interview with Gary Chun of the […]
On Tuesday, July 19, 2011, come to the Manoa Valley Theatre (2833 East Manoa Road) to help celebrate 100 Bamboo Ridge issues with Wine & Words presented by Bamboo Ridge Press. Join the celebration at 7:00 p.m. with a “Come Eat” reception including heavy pupu and beverages, followed at 7:30 p.m. with a “Make Plate” […]
Wow. That’s the exclamation I gave after reading the first two chapters of Anshū at the book store. Misty was there with me, and she told me she felt the same way when she read the beginning a few days prior. We began to debate on who would review this fascinating novel, as both of […]
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Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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