Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
I learned critical skills at the Community of Writers two decades ago. So proud that they published an excerpt from Standing Up, the chapter titled “Magic Monday,” in their quarterly bulletin.
New York Labor History
Jane LaTour wrote this extensive review of Standing Up in the NY Labor History Association review. Honored to have her perceptive take on the ways our novel highlights “the daily indignities, and the dangers inherent in routinized sloppy procedures that are just part of the day’s work,…and the process in different settings, when people consciously act to fathom and then dismantle the obstacles they encounter, piece by piece. “
Wisconsin Examiner
Terry Falk reviewed the book in the Wisconsin Examiner. His key takeaway: “storytelling here is the main attraction.”
Activist Explorer
Juliana Barnet writes a newsletter about fiction featuring activists. She wrote this amazing piece. I especially loved the conclusion: “This book gives a picture of some of the many, and often unrecorded, grassroots victories, which consist not only of achieving better material conditions for work or school, but also the monumental changes that take place inside people, as individuals and as a group. As Bravo says, “We want to show that moment—such a joy to watch—when people get a sense they don’t have to put up with this shit anymore… [It] isn’t inevitable, somebody’s doing it. We can change that, and ‘we’ means me, too.”