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Few can comprehend the hellish torment inflicted on countless gypsies during the time of the Soviet Empire. Always fearful of discovery, some…

It’s not quite fair to compare The Heart of a Pilot to Ernest K. Gann’s superb Fate is the Hunter, but readers who enjoy aviation books will…

Imagine an eighteen-year-old honor student from an upper-class family who lives a life of privilege and opportunity. Now imagine that this same young…

Norvelle Traylor Walker’s novel, Intimidating Shades: Why Does My Sister Hate Me? tells the saga of the Mays, a deeply Christian African-American…

Moving and consistently enjoyable, Every Pointed Star follows eighteen-year-old J.D. Johnson as he struggles along his particularly rocky road to…

The collapse of the Soviet Union caused many sleepless nights for world leaders who wondered what would happen to the USSR’s extensive stockpiles…

Geoffrey Becker is the author of Hot Springs (Tin House Books, 978-0-9820539-4-2).

When did you start reading, and what did you like to read as a kid?
My earliest memories of reading are competitive ones.  In first grade, we worked our way through a series of primers, and I was neck and neck with a [...]

Author of Court-Martial of Apache Kid (Texas Tech University Press, 978-0-89672-652-9).
When did you start reading and what did you like to read as a kid?
We did not have many books at home but by the time I was in high school we had a good school library where I became an avid [...]

The book business will be smaller in scale, more profitable in outcome, and its future bright for the nimble and the innovative; and the magazine business is rolling with the transformational punch and sees growth and continued relevance ahead. This was the message as book and magazine publishing executives, professionals and [...]

“The old world was ripe with raw power. Energy and magic, unbridled, flowed through everyday events and objects, fuels for the tales so easily…

Last Week’s Digital Book World conference (January 26-27) was charged with hopeful outlooks for the future and high uncertainty over the present. The FW Media-sponsored conference hosted by Mike Shatzkin assembled more than 600 industry professionals, including more than 100 presenters, at the New York Sheraton, filling the assembly hall and [...]

The world has been divided into two factions: the evil, dark demons; and the people whose “lives were created through the pureness of the energy….

Neither lung cancer nor fatal boating accident nor the gloom of a homicide investigation will prevent Max the architect from completing his…

Contradicting current medical theories this book advocates lifelong hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women. Its arguments however fall far…

This little wild berry gets complete and undivided attention in Huckleberry Delights part of the author’s Delights series of cookbooks. Unfortunately…

To visit the tomb of Jesus skip Jerusalem and catch a plane to Srinagar Kashmir. Anyone in town can give directions to the Roza Bal shrine. That…

Unlike long form prose, poetry demands that the eyes slow and the mind calms, engaging beyond content and plot and instead at the level of diction,…

“My kingdom will survive only in so far as it remains a country difficult of access, where the foreigner will have no other aim, with his task…

Frank Daceasy is an enigma. Good-looking but unmarried. Unemployed though talented beyond mere competence. Soft-spoken yet sometimes cutting; good to…

In 1676 Virginian aristocrat Nathaniel Bacon twenty nine raised a militia of 500 farmers servants and slaves — both black and white. Resenting the…

Instead of playing basketball with the kids who tease him, D.J. runs home to the seclusion of his backyard tree house. What may appear to be innocent…

How are Zen and business alike? Anyone who wonders how right livelihood and practical wisdom can play a role in today’s cutthroat business climate…

Many people are taking a critical look at American society today and are vehemently complaining that it is falling apart at the seams: crime is high,…

An attempt to review Gotham in a brief notice is as reckless as presenting the Himalayas in a three-minute, two-slide, one-question lecture. This…

After a particularly nasty tumble, a business card she’d been saving with the name and phone number of a nun who taught Russian Orthodox religious…

Ever since Harrison Ford brought the Indiana Jones character to life on the silver screen, archaeology has become a promising narrative force in…

In a 1998 article in UNLV Magazine, the author claimed, “This is unusual, I know, but I never revise. If I write a poem and it’s not there, I don’t…