The Geography of First Kisses
VIDEOS
“New Orleans in Common” - A Reading - T Clark, Ariel Francisco, Carolyn Hembree, Brad Richard, Karin Cecile Davidson - 2023 Words & Music Festival - André Cailloux Center - New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Rayna Nielsen - Book Banter Virtual Series - Blue Cypress Books, New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Michelle Herman - The Geography of First Kisses Release Celebration - Bexley Public Library, Bexley, OH
INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
Center for Literary Publishing/Colorado Review - Book Review of TGFK - by Chris Harding Thornton
MER Literary Journal - Book Review of TGFK - by Teresa Tumminello Brader
British reviewer Ellie Hawkes reviews THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES
Southern Review of Books - “Everything Falls into Place” - Review of TGFK - by BettyJoyce Nash
Bloom - “Memories Called Me to Write” - an interview on TGFK - by Ramona Reeves
Book Q&A - an interview on TGFK - by Deborah Kalb
Newfound - “Words So Odd and Ordered” - an interview on TGFK - by Margo Orlando Littell
Unleash Lit - Review & Conversation on TGFK - by Ashley Holloway
PLAYLISTS & PODCASTS
Diverse Voices Book Review - in conversation with Hopeton Hay about TGFK
VoiceCorps’ Morning Exchange - in celebration of the 2023 Ohioana Book Festival / in conversation with David Weaver, Ohioana Library Director, & Authors Frances Strickland & Nita Sweeney
Largehearted Boy - “Book Notes” - Karin Cecile Davidson’s Playlist for TGFK
WRITING ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES
Women Writers, Women’s Books - “First Kisses, Real & Imagined” - an little essay on first kisses, mostly literary ones, inspired by readers, novels, and the stories of TGFK
Women Writers, Women’s Books - an excerpt of TGFK from “Sweet Iowa”
Monkeybicycle - “If My Book” Series - TGFK as “a lie, a sweater, a field, a fish!”
Vol. 1 Brooklyn - an excerpt of TGFK from “We Are Here Because of a Horse”
Hypertext: One Question - on unnamed narrators in THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES
Hypertext: Compass Points - an excerpt from THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES
Sybelia Drive
VIDEOS
In conversation with author Laurie Foos - Cambridge Common Writers Interview - Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
In conversation with C. Morgan Babst - Garden District Book Shop, New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Margot Livesey - Pagination Books, Springfield, MO
INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
Chris Harding Thornton reviews Sybelia Drive - Center for Literary Publishing, home of Colorado Review
Streetlight Magazine - “Turmoil and Languor: Messing Up the Quiet” - Nancy Zafris interviews Karin Cecile Davidson
LitHub’s “5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers”
Ellie Hawkes’s review of Sybelia Drive
Karin Greenberg’s review of Sybelia Drive
Book Q&A’s with Deborah Kalb - the voices, places, & hopes of Sybelia Drive
Steph Post - “Writer Bites” Interview - naming characters, procrastinating, & falling in love with books
Clifford Garstang’s “I’ve Got Questions” Interview Series - “I’ve Got Questions for Karin Cecile Davidson”
Heavy Feather Review - “A Retrospective Viewpoint” - an interview by Bailey Bujnosek
Authorlink Interview with Ellen Birkett Morris - lessons learned, decisions on form, the power of objects
PLAYLISTS & PODCASTS
Largehearted Boy - “Book Notes” - Karin Cecile Davidson’s Playlist for Sybelia Drive
“Sybelia Drive Swifted” Playlist - Sybelia Drive as songs by Taylor Swift
Why We Write Podcast - Lesley University, Cambridge, MA - in conversation with Georgia Sparling
Craft: Exploring Creativity - WCBE 90.5 FM, Columbus, OH - in conversation with Brendan McIntyre - archived on Doug Dangler’s Craft Podcast
KAZI Book Review Interview - in conversation with Hopeton Hay - KAZI 88.7 FM, Austin, TX
WRITING ABOUT SYBELIA DRIVE
Women Writers, Women’s Books - “The Women and Girls of Sybelia Drive” - the novel’s glimmer & glance of feminism
Women Writers, Women’s Books - “The Men and Boys of Sybelia Drive” - the novel’s treatment of masculinity
Necessary Fiction: “Research Notes” - the five things I didn’t expect to research for Sybelia Drive
Monkeybicycle - “If My Book” - Sybelia Drive as “a year, a lake, a dance, a drop of dew!”
The Coil: “St. Lucie” - an excerpt from Karin Cecile Davidson’s SYBELIA DRIVE
Hypertext: “Girl” - an excerpt from Karin Cecile Davidson’s SYBELIA DRIVE
Hypertext: One Question - LuLu’s friendship with Rainey in Sybelia Drive
BigIndieBooks features “5 places of the novel”- Sybelia Drive is a winding Florida road
LitReactor Column - my crazy craft essay on 20 years of wandering toward an understanding of narrative structure
BOOKLISTS
Poets&Writers - Sept/Oct 2020 - New Titles - Sybelia Drive arrives among small press books
Emma Straub of Brooklyn’s Books Are Magic compiled a booklist called “2020 Sucked, but These Books Don’t” where you can find over 150 titles, including SYBELIA DRIVE
Debutiful - “Recommendations” - Sybelia Drive lands on a shortlist of recommended October 2020 debut novels
Colorado Review October 2020 Newsletter - Sybelia Drive among the titles in “Celebrating Our Writers”
Sybelia Drive lands in Ellie Hawkes’s #AprilReading List
Goodreads Booklist: 33 Reader-Approved, Highly Rated Works of Fiction to Discover Now - Sybelia Drive lands on a booklist among the gorgeous works of Alice Randall, Taylor Brown, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Randall Kenan, & so many more
Featured Photo
Provincetown - by Karin Cecile Davidson