Hello, Talking River Review newsletter subscribers! My name is Kinsey Cook, and this spring is my second semester interning at TRR. I started fall of 2025, and I plan to continue until I graduate in 2027, with a major in graphic communications and with minors in art and publishing arts. My roles at TRR so far have included, being a part of the weekly newsletter and social media team. This spring I will be mentored by our Senior graphicContinue reading “From the Community: Kinsey Cook”
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The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From Marlowe Daly-Galeano
When I read Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021), I wondered if that was the pinnacle. There was no way Bechdel’s latest comic novel, Spent, could be as good as Bechdel’s prior book, a memoir that hilariously explores being a middle-aged woman in a body. As a middle-aged woman in a body myself,Continue reading “The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From Marlowe Daly-Galeano”
From the Community: Amy Hallman
Hello everyone! My name is Amy Hallman, and this is my second semester serving as secretary for TRR. I am a junior at LCSC, majoring in publishing arts. This is my third semester in TRR, and I plan to continue until I graduate in 2027. I was asked to be the secretary when our former secretary, Anissa Sheppard, graduated in the spring of 2025. I was quite nervous because I had never done something like this before. My original tasksContinue reading “From the Community: Amy Hallman”
The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From Elizabeth Bradfield
Most recently, two friends have handed me books that have haunted, inspired, and lingered for me. The first is The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon. Monkman is a painter; I first saw his work a few yearsContinue reading “The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From Elizabeth Bradfield”
From The Community: Landry Cash
Hello, subscribers and readers! My name is Landry Cash. I’m currently serving as the Vice President of Talking River Review (TRR). I’m from Lapwai, Idaho, and I’m a creative writing and publishing arts major at Lewis-Clark State. I have been a proud member of the TRR team since 2024. We’ve come a long way sinceContinue reading “From The Community: Landry Cash”
The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From CMarie Fuhrman
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow It had been two months of cozy holiday romance and “romantasy” when our local Indie bookseller put this in my hands. I wasn’t certain. I had been reading cozy fiction for a reason: for escape, for delight. The cover looked a bit intimidating—not as playful, and the stakes wereContinue reading “The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From CMarie Fuhrman”
From The Archives: Gary Fincke
Talking River Review FA 1996: THE ELEMENTARY LABYRINTH Art Fausel had the swimming pool built while his wife Dottie was doing seventeen days of hiking through the woods of Connecticut for three graduate credits. The Audubon Society had given her a scholarship. All she had to do was drive three hundred miles and sleep in a tent. They didn’t say anythingContinue reading “From The Archives: Gary Fincke”
From The Community: Lanessa Watkins
Hello! My name is Lanessa Watkins, and I’m the current acting president of Talking River Review (TRR). I’m in my junior year at LCSC, and I’ve been a part of TRR for two semesters now. I’m a publishing arts major, which makes TRR a perfect fit for me. I hope to one day work asContinue reading “From The Community: Lanessa Watkins”
The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From Kim Barnes
Of Time and Punishment, the recently released memoir by LCSC alum Jerry D. Mathes, is an exciting continuation of the work he has been doing since I first met him over two decades ago. I’ve always been a fan of Jerry’s writing–he is the author of six previous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, asContinue reading “The Last Book I Read: A Recommendation From Kim Barnes”
Dark Matter: Nick Flynn’s This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and an Interview with the Author
Talking River Review faculty advisor Jennifer Anderson recently had the opportunity to review Flynn’s new memoir and ask him some questions about his work. Writers have long explored the notion of home, but seldom do we encounter a writer so willing to consider one’s impulse to destroy it. Poet, memoirist, and playwright Nick Flynn addressesContinue reading “Dark Matter: Nick Flynn’s This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and an Interview with the Author”