The launch party for Kim Henderson's chapbook...

...The Kind of Girl held at Cafe Aroma last weekend got a lovely write-up in the Valley Chronicle today.

"Here is what I love about writers," the party's host, author Eduardo Santiago is quoted as saying in the article. "We are a generous bunch. Kim chose to include her colleagues in her celebration today and I am here to celebrate them all."

You can read the whole thing here.

Redivider...

...has a blog and that blog has a review, today, of The Kind of Girl by Kim Henderson. In it, reviewer Dymon Lewis writes:

"Perhaps the most striking feature of The Kind of Girl’s thirteen short-shorts is Henderson’s deft juxtaposition of adolescence and adulthood—the hazy, sun-bleached memories of youth slammed against the gradual onslaught of disappointments and concessions that is adulthood for these girls who are older but still so very unwise. The pieces are presented in almost chronological order, and we flash to a new girl in each story just a little further in her life than the girl before her."

Thanks, Dymon! 

Podcasts and Stuffed Animals

Both Kim Henderson's The Kind of Girl and Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson's I Take Back the Sponge Cake have received some serious podcast love of late, and for that we are grateful.

The Kind of Girl is featured on Episode 21 of the Summerbooks podcast, courtesy of Natalie Sypolt and Renee Nicholson, and you can listen to the whole thing here.

And I Take Back the Sponge Cake got featured on Show #9 of "The Secret Lives of Stuffed Animals" here.

See? Here's Mr. Bear enjoying the book:

Kim Henderson, Out Loud

Kim Henderson is featured in today's Audio Series over at The Next Best Book Club's The Next Best Book blog. You can listen to her reading her short short story, "Muscle Memory," included in her award-winning chapbook The Kind of Girl here. Thanks, as always, to Lori Hettler, for including RMP!

Also, you can see as well as hear Kim reading from the chapbook at Idyllwild Arts Academy on this video, courtesy of poet Katherine Factor, here. Kim's performance begins around the 50-minute mark. Thanks to Katherine for this recording!

The Fall 2013 issue of Gently Read Literature...

...is live and it contains a review of I Take Back the Sponge Cake by Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson among many other things. Thanks to Matthew Mahaney for the write-up!

You can subscribe to Gently Read here.

Flash...

...the International Short-Short Story Magazine reviewed Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel in their latest issue, and the review is glowing, as you can see in the photos of the whole thing here. Thanks, Caroline Jones, for the lovely coverage! Also, the same issue contains a review of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore. Thanks to reviewer Paul McDonald for that!