Staff Picks – Little Patuxent Review

Two of LPR’s September Book Picks are Longlisted for the National Book Award!

Here’s another reason to check out Lauren Groff’s The Matrix and Richard Power’s Bewilderment, both staff picks in our post 10 Great Books for September. While you’re at it why not read Michael Salcman’s Shades & Graces: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020). Michael is, among other things, our former art consultant! His new collection is the […]

by wendy ruth walker

10 Great Books for September

As temperatures slowly cool and days grow shorter, reading can become a necessary pastime, an act of mending the mind after the long, hot days of summer. Here are some lovely new books hitting shelves this month, certain to inspire. THE MATRIX: A Novel BY LAUREN GROFF The fourth novel by the celebrated writer is […]

by Holly Bowers

Staff Pick: Ben Cricchi on the streets of Baltimore

George Clack serves on the Board of Directors for the Little Patuxent Review. In this post, he shares her staff pick from the Winter 2020 issue, Ann Bracken’s interview with photographer Ben Cricchi. “A picture is a secret about a secret,” the great photographer Diane Arbus once said. “The more it tells you the less you […]

by Holly Bowers

Staff Pick: “In Case You Were Wondering” by David O’Connell

Brian England serves on the Board of Directors for the Little Patuxent Review. In this post, he shares his staff pick from the Winter 2020 issue, David O’Connell’s poem “In Case You Were Wondering.” What made this poem special for me was how it transported me back to a time when we would park on […]

by Holly Bowers

Staff Pick: Alejandro Pérez’s “Sonnet for My Cousin Xiomara, Who Tried to Teach Me How to Dance Salsa”

Holly Bowers is the online editor for the Little Patuxent Review. In this post, she shares her staff pick from the Summer 2019 issue. Reading a poem is like staring at the surface of a pond. It might look still at first, but if you gaze at it for a few minutes you start to […]