Ellen Meeropol
With Joe Donahue at WAMC
Bill Newman on WHMP
Selected Works
Novel
The environment is dying and the plants have chosen you to save them. You’re going to make a difference . . . but at what cost?
Fiction
“On Hurricane Island is unflinchingly political, unashamedly suspenseful, and, above all, deeply human.” – Naomi Benaron
Reviews and Interviews
Review: Berkshire Eagle
July 22, 2017, by Colin Harrington
"7 Best Books from Indie Publishers Right Now"
PBS NewsHour, June 16, 2017
Book review: Mom Egg Review
May 29, 2017, by Ros Howell
Book Review: True Book Addict
May 23, 2017
Radio Interview: KPFA Women's Magazine
May 9, 2017, with Kate Jessica Raphael
Interview: Caroline Leavitt
April 27, 2017
Radio Interview: The Writer's Voice
April 26, 2017, with Francesca Rheannon
Book Review: Readaholic Zone
April 26, 2017
Interview: What. How. Why.
April 24, 2017
Review: A Bookish Way of Life
April 20, 2017
Interview: Book Connection
April 18, 2018
Interview: Book Fan Mary
April 18, 2017
Interview: Rose City Reader
April 15, 2017
Interview on The Bill Newman Show
WHMP, April 3, 2017
"a wondrous example of how a political novel, in the right hands, can achieve high artistry."
Review, Necessary Fiction, April 3, 2017
"Memorable characters drive Ellen Meeropol's Kinship of Clover"
Portland Press Herald, April 2, 2017
Interview: Joe Donahue on The Roundtable
March 31, 2017, WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Book Bag: Review of KINSHIP OF CLOVER
Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 31, 2017
Book Q&A's with Deborah Kalb
March 31, 2017
Review of Kinship of Clover
by Linda Sienkiewicz, March 27, 2017
"An entertaining...tale of good intentions and deep-seated secrets coming home to roost." -- Booklist
Booklist review of KINSHIP OF CLOVER, March 2017
Ellen Meeropol and Straw Dog Writers Guild "In the Spotlight"
Association of Writers and Writing Programs, February 2017
"If a novel can serve as both a harbinger of the future and a parable for our fraught political times, then Ellen Meeropol has done it again."
KINSHIP OF CLOVER reviewed by Lisa C. Taylor in The Midwest Book Review
Massachusetts Book Awards for 2016
ON HURRICANE ISLAND is named a Must Read in Fiction
Interview by Francesca Rheannon on Writer's Voice
ON HURRICANE ISLAND, March 31, 2016
Ellen Meeropol and Erin McKeown interviewed about Arts and Activism
October 7, 2015, The Bill Newman Show, WHMP
Interviewed on the Laura Flanders Show, with Rachel Meeropol, on Art and Resistance
September 21, 2015, GritTV
Interview by Susan Kaplan about ON HURRICANE ISLAND
August 7, 2015, Summer Fiction Series, New England Public Radio
Interview by Lesley Nase on "Books, Yarns & Tales" (Fast forward to 24:28)
July 20, 2015, Community Supported Radio - WBTN, Bennington, VT
"Chilling story is one you can't - and shouldn't - put down"
May 14, 2015, Bill Newman, legalnews.com
Review of ON HURRICANE ISLAND
April 8, 2015, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Writer to writer: an interview
April 2, 2015, Linda K Sienkiewicz blog
Bending rules on interrogation
March 7, 2015, Bill Newman's column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Review on Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser's Standing in the Shadows blog
March 4, 2015, The Valley Advocate
Review: Robert Meeropol's blog, Still out on a limb
March 4, 2015, From a weatherman's POV
Books on the Nightstand podcast. Two Books We Can't Wait for You to Read
March 3, 2015, move your cursor to 26:00 (or listen to the whole wonderful podcast!)
Interview, The Bill Newman Show: Northampton, MA
March 2, 2015, I'm on at 22.05
Book Bag: Review of ON HURRICANE ISLAND
February 27, 2015, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Book Review: Offers tense mix of political critique, gripping narrative
February 27, 2015, The Recorder, Greenfield, MA