Harper’s Bazaar says Shining Sea will be “One of the 12 Summer Books Everyone Will Be Talking About”! For the full review, please see here…(Read More)
Word is in from Kirkus Reviews, and it’s good: “A panoramic novel tracing generations of the Gannon family [that] illuminates the aftershocks of war in the 20th century…. The effortless prose and vining plot make for a winsome tale of kinship and growth. Endearing characters carry a sinuous story of family bonds.” I won…(Read More)
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing…(Read More)
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Shining Sea has received its first Goodreads review, from someone who received an ARC (advanced reading copy): “Loved, loved, loved this book that traces the lives of a SoCal family over three generations and how war affected them all, either directly or indirectly. Korkeakivi has a gift for exquisite prose, a unique voice, and a…(Read More)
The publishing date for Shining Sea is August 9, but advanced reading copies have begun going out to book critics, booksellers, and book event organizers. Anyone falling within that category who’d like a copy, please drop a line…(Read More)
If you look around this website, you’ll find a new tab up top, between “Home” and “An Unexpected Guest.” It’s for the new page for Shining Sea, with advance reviews, pre-order buttons, and a brief excerpt. Or else you could just look here. Isn’t it lovely? Eventually, the whole website will…(Read More)
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Look a little ways down the column at the right side of any page on this site and you’ll see a link to my new(ish) Instagram account, as well as a two-photo preview of what I’ve been posting. Click on it, and I’ll see you there! To get to my…(Read More)
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An Unexpected Guest made an unexpected appearance in an art installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, as well as on the blog of the Indianapolis Public Library, which wrote, “Korkeakivi’s novel moves smoothly while giving the reader a cagey look at diplomatic life after 9/11.” To read the whole book review as…(Read More)
Strands from William Blake’s poetry run through Nobel Prize Laureate Kenzaburo Oe’s Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age, first published in Japan in 1983. In this beautiful and idiosyncratic autobiographical novel, about a highly cerebral author named “K” and his mentally disabled eldest son (Kenzaburo’s eldest son experienced irreversible…(Read More)
The reader of Joanna Rakoff’s charming memoir, My Salinger Year (2014), needn’t be a devotee of the famously reclusive, eponymous author to love. Rakoff herself hadn’t read J.D. Salinger’s work when she began her entry-level job at his literary agency, charged with scrutinizing (for potential craziness) and then throwing…(Read More)
