2025 Book Reviews:
- Lily King’s Heart the Lover for the Portland Press Herald.
- Paul Rudnick’s What is Wrong with You? for the Portland Press Herald.
- Amy Reading’s, The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Nick Fuller Googins’s The Frequency of Living Things for the Portland Press Herald.
- Elissa Altman’s Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create, for the Portland Press Herald.
Eggs in Purgatory News:
- Delighted to have Eggs in Purgatory nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- Eggs in Purgatory Review: “This stunning little book met me at a deep place and I can highly recommend it….” Five star review by Bookish Beck. Bookish Beck also included Eggs in Purgatory on her Best Books from 2023 list.
- Eggs in Purgatory Review: “[An] excellent new book … brings valuable lessons and insight.” Glad to have End of Life Choices CA feature Eggs in a thoughtful blog post.
- Eggs in Purgatory Review: “This long-form essay is smart, raw, and a real page turner, at times stunningly witty…. I was fascinated and left wanting more, more, more.” Reviewed by Story Circle Network.
- Eggs in Purgatory was selected for the SPD Recommends list.
2024 Book Reviews:
- Penny Guisinger’s memoir, Shift, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Bill Roorbach’s novel, Beep, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Morgan Talty’s novel, Fire Exit, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Rebecca Turkewitz’s short story collection, Here in the Night, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Ariel Lawhon’s novel, The Frozen River, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Elizabeth Hand’s novel, A Haunting on the Hill, for the Portland Press Herald.
2023 Book Reviews:
- Two new Edna St. Vincent Millay collections (letters and diaries), for the Portland Press Herald.
- Paul Harding’s novel, This Other Eden, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Alice Elliott Dark’s novel, Fellowship Point, for the Portland Press Herald.
- Mimi Herman’s novel, The Kudzu Queen, for Litstack.
Thanks to Catamaran Literary Reader for nominating my story “Your Hysterical Wife” for a Pushcart Prize. Here’s a link to read it online.
Twister News:
- Bookish Beck: “Twister was a novel I read slowly, just 10 or 15 pages at a sitting, to savor Walsh’s prose. … one to linger over as you appreciate the delicacy of the characterization and the electric descriptions of the impending storm.” Four star review.
- Twister was selected as a Finalist for the 2016 Sarton Women’s Book Award. Thank you to Story Circle Network for this recognition.
- Berkeleyside: Best Books of 2016. I’m delighted that Lucy Jane Bledsoe included Twister on her recommended reading list.
- Twister was selected as a Finalist for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction. Glad to have this recognition for the book and for Black Lawrence Press.
- Full Stop: “Walsh is incredibly intelligent, fierce, and, at times, tender with her prose. What excites me most about Twister is its ambition. … an outstanding debut….”
- Midwest Book Review, Wisconsin Bookwatch, Reviewer’s Choice: “Exceptionally well written and consistently compelling from beginning to end, “Twister” is an unforgettable and extraordinary debut …. confidently and highly recommended.”
- Here’s Deni Scofield reading an excerpt from Twister at Stories on Stage Davis. Such a great night!
- Twister on the Small Press Distribution bestseller list for January/February. And again for March/April. Thank you!
- I’m delighted that BLP nominated the opening chapter of Twister for The Pushcart Prize. Find a link to read the nominees’ excerpts here.
- Hungry for Good Books: “Like the tornado Walsh describes, Twister is a powerful novel – one that strengthens as the reader falls into the characters’ lives. … It’s a stunningly unpredictable novel just like the tornado it tracks.”
- San Jose Mercury News: an “…atmospheric debut novel.”
- Largehearted Boy: Here’s a playlist of songs referenced in Twister.
- Emerging Writers Network: I had a great time talking with Lori Ostlund about Twister. Here is the interview. I highly recommend Lori’s fabulous books.
- StoryCircle Book Reviews: “…fresh and interesting. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed this first-time novel . . .”
- She Treads Softly: “A highly recommended story of turbulence in a small town.“
- The Nervous Breakdown published a self-interview and an excerpt from Twister.
- Here’s a short excerpt and a fun, quick Q&A covering important topics such as coffee (pro) and comparing ourselves to others (con).
- Kirkus Reviews: “A young man’s wartime death increases pre-existing tensions in a Midwestern community even as nightmarish weather approaches. . . . the quiet revelations that emerge lend [the novel] a surprising power.”
- Red Earth Review published a chapter from Twister.
Genanne Walsh 