NEWS & REVIEWS

2025

April 23, 2025 / The Empyrean Path
Glass Century - In Conversation with Ross Barkan

April 22, 2025 / The Pensive Pejorative
Ross Barkan's Glass Century and Some Thoughts on the New Romantic Movement

April 16, 2025 / The Millbrook Independent
Post-Modern Turgenev: A Revoew of Thimas McGonigle's Diptych Before Dying

March 29, 2025 / Decentralized Fiction
Novels Should Be Beautiful Objects

January 31, 2025 / Leaf by Leaf
Contrapuntal Prose Ballet: Video review of Michael Brodsky's Invidicum

2024

October 29, 2024 / The Collidescope
Canis Major: The Last Interview With Domício Coutinho

October 28, 2024 / The Collidescope
Incredible Revelations of an Earthworm by Domício Coutinho

October 18, 2024 / City Journal
Caught Up in the Drift: On a reissue of Thomas McGonigle's classic anti-novel, Going to Patchogue

August 31, 2024 / The Collidescope
Earthly Time: A Rare Interview with Thomas McGonigle

August 22, 2024 / The East Hampton Star
Once More Unto Patchogue

July 1, 2024 / The Northern Review of Books
Review: Bughouse Dope: Selected Essays & Articles by Maxwell Bodenheim

May 8, 2024 / Nasty
Agape Lodge Poetry Society: In conversation with Vanessa Matic

April 30, 2024 / The Collidescope
Magic Theatre: A Rare Interview with James Fritzhand

February 29, 2024 / The Collidescope Podcast
Infinite Fecundity: A Rare Interview with Michael Brodsky

2023

December 30, 2023 / The Collidescope
Review: Sweet Adversity and Those Drinking Days by Donald Newlove

December 5, 2023 / World Literature Today
75 Notable Translations 2023 (Knut Hamsun's Edttor Lynge)

November 30, 2023 / The Mockingbird Sings
Michael Brodsky's Invidicum Part One
Consciousness as a Sledgehammer: Michael Brodsky's Invidicum Part Two
For the Sake of Darkling Playfulness: Michael Brodsky's Invidicum Part Three

September 24, 2023 / The Collidescope
Review: Movieland by Ramón Gómez de la Serna

June 2, 2023 / Publishers Weekly
Review: A Tale of Five Cities and Other Memoirs by Joyce Elbert

May 30, 2023 / The Complete Review
Review: Encyclopedia by Richard Horn

April 20, 2023 / Jokopost.com
Following Virginia Woolf: Gulliver's wife's diary (Review of Oh, Gulliver!)

April 7, 2023 / Big Other
Announcing the Finalists for the 2022 Big Other Readers' Choice Award (Honorable Mention)

March 6, 2023 / Exacting Clam
Reviews in Brief: Early Stories and Fables by Alexander Theroux

March 1, 2023 / The Collidescope
Stigmata of the Intrinsic Lesion: A Rare Interview with Michael Brodsky

February 28, 2023 / Neglected Books Publisher Spotlight
The Flutter of an Eyelid (Tough Poets)

February 5, 2023 / The Collidescope
Review: The Sweetmeat Saga by G. F. Gravenson

2022

November 17, 2022 / yourArlington.com
Arlington Micro Press Announces Release of 50th Book

September 27, 2022 / Rain Taxi Review of Books
Review: Movieland by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Reviewer: Richard Kostalanetz)

August 21, 2022 / Books of Some Substance Podcast
Review: Alexander Theroux's Fables (Guest: George Salis)

August 12, 2022 / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Review: A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs — The unjustly neglected Joyce Elbert reminiscences about being a woman novelist in a man's world. (Reviewer: Kathleen Rooney)

April 30, 2022 / The Collidescope
Without a Phartsmone: An Interview with G. F. Gravenson

April 29, 2022 / Lost Modernists
Interview: Dr. Jack Mearns on John Sanford

March 2, 2022 / The Artifa[ctuals]
Yesterday's Burdens: America's Forgotten Ulysses

2021

December 31, 2021 / Travel Through Stories
Review: The Secret Service by Wendy Walker

December 27, 2021 / The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction
No Apology or Cuteness: On Gil Orlovitz

December 10, 2021 / LitReactor
Small Press Xmas Lit Tour

December 3, 2021 / A Brief Chat podcast
Rick Schober of Tough Poets Press

November 19, 2021 / Los Angeles Review of Books
The Long Half-Life of Proletarian Prose: On Michael Gold and Maxwell Bodenheim

November 5, 2021 / Genealogies of Modernity
Stories on the Side of Grace: Review of Alexander Theroux's Early Stories

September 22, 2021 / Los Angeles Review of Books
The Burden of History in John Sanford's Make My Bed in Hell and The Land that Touches Mine

September 2, 2021 / ArtsJournal
In Praise of Donald Newlove

August 27, 2021 / The New York Times
Donald Newlove, 93, Dies; Novelist Explored the Depths of Drink

August 20, 2021 / Publishers Weekly
Author Donald Newlove Dies at 93

June 4, 2021 / Los Angeles Review of Books
Prisoners of the Page: On Myron Brinig's The Flutter of an Eyelid

June 1, 2021 / The Collidescope
Fame and Famine: A Conversation with Marvin Cohen

May 21, 2021 / Boog City
Discovered Treasure: Gregory Corso’s Collected Plays are the Thing

April 22, 2021 / The East Hampton Star
Splenetically Yours: Review of Speaking in an Empty Room: The Selected Letters of John Sanford

April 18, 2021 / The Collidescope
What Heartbreak the Wind Will Bring: An Interview with Donald Newlove

April 11, 2021 / The Neglected Books Page
Review: The Flutter of an Eyelid by Myron Brinig

April 5, 2021 / Glenn Cole Russell
Review: Gulping's Recital by Russell Edson

January 18, 2021 / European Literature Network
#RivetingReviews: Johanne Elster Hanson reviews Children of the Age by Knut Hamsun

January 7, 2021 / Boston Globe
New England Literary News: A new book of plays by the Beat poet Gregory Corso

January 7, 2021 / Eclectica Magazine
Corso But Even More So (Review of Collected Plays)

January 6, 2021 / Please Kill Me
Gregory Corso: Street Punk & Beat Turned Poet & Playwright

January 4, 2021 / Alta Journal
The Pleasure-Seekers: Myron Brinig's The Flutter of an Eyelid is the great lost classic of Los Angeles literature.

2020

November 21, 2020 / inchoatia
Review: The Flutter of an Eyelid by Myron Brinig

July 6, 2020 / Midwest Book Review
Review: Romance & Revolution by Vanessa Matic

June 17, 2020 / The Book Beat
Review: Ceremonies in Bachelor Space by Russell Edson

May 10, 2020 / inchoatia
Review: The Hungry Girls and Other Stories by Patricia Eakins

March 5, 2020 / yourArlington.com
Arlington press to publish Nobel Prize winner's novel

2019

December 11, 2019 / Making Book
This is what I'm talking about

December 2, 2019 / The Collidescope
Review: Gulping's Recital by Russell Edson

November 22, 2019 / Publishers Weekly
The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics

October 18, 2019 / The Collidescope
Imaginary Beings: An Interview with Patricia Eakins

July 28, 2019 / The Collidescope
Thrill of the Hunt: An Interview with the Founder of Tough Poets Press

February 26, 2019 / Please Kill Me
Overcoming Adversity: A Drunk's Redemption

January 26, 2019 / inchoatia
Review: Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove

January 21, 2019 / Fiction Writers Review
Dystopias Future and Past: Demolition Night by Ross Barkan

2018

November 2, 2018 / inchoatia
Review: Confessions of a Nowaday Child by Erje Ayden

October 10, 2018 / Medium
The Long Winding Road to Publishing a Novel - Ross Barkan

2017

December 7, 2017 / Varsity
Review: Baseball as Metaphysics by Marvin Cohen

October 17, 2017 / Entropy
Small Press: Interview with Rick Schober of Tough Poets Press

June 12, 2017 / Fiction Writers Review
The Drumbeat of Society: An Interview with Marvin Cohen

2016

November 23, 2016 / The Village Voice
Surreal Genius: Why Onetime Literary Hotshot Marvin Cohen Deserves Another Look

May 11, 2016 / Jared A. Carnie Blog
5 Questions With Rick Schober

2015

August 1, 2015 / The Allen Ginsberg Project
Gregory Corso Interviews: Another of the summer's essential books

July 30, 2015 / i-Italy
Meeting a Beat in Paris: Fred Misurella recalls his 1976 interview with Gregory Corso, newly republished in The Whole Shot

March 12, 2015 / Best American Poetry
An Interview with Richard Schober, Editor of The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso

ABOUT TOUGH POETS PRESS

Tough Poets Press, founded by Rick Schober in 2015 and based in Arlington, Massachusetts, is a small independent publisher of new and rediscovered unconventional and neglected literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. We were featured in the November 22, 2019 issue of Publishers Weekly: The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics