Twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso is sprawled beneath a wrecked 1973 Pontiac Bonneville, hooking it up for towing, when he hears someone speak in Italian. “Dio,” the voice says. A moment later it comes again. “Dio.” The explanation... Read More

“There are just two things you have to do when you are very unhappy, and you must do one or the other. Get down to work, or do something for someone else.” This was writer Iris Origo’s take on life, as explained to her youngest... Read More

On a September evening in 1931, Oxford scholars Jack Lewis and Ronald Tolkien talked late into the night. They discussed myth and metaphor and grappled with Lewis’s religious issues. Ordinarily, such a late-night confab would be of... Read More

This collection of twenty essays, articles, panel discussion transcripts, and interviews provides a fairly comprehensive examination of how the American record business has operated since it came into being, and of the sticky situation... Read More

In the new literary genre of New Age or Spiritual Fiction, anything can happen. In this story, the world of today has ended. One of the main characters is “the Goddess [who] was at once all Love and all Truth.” Hearing Her guidance... Read More

Mystery, intrigue, and murder all occur at the University of Chicago Law School, where first-year student Grayson Bullock finds himself enveloped by the treacherous and secretive workings of the elite legal journal, the Law Review. Only... Read More

In this collection of short stories, the author takes the reader on a road trip vaster than Jack Kerouac’s and Hunter Thompson’s, encompassing not only different physical countries, but also broad internal nations of the psyche.... Read More

Unless they’re remarkably well-adjusted, most teenage girls go through a period of feeling embarrassed and slightly horrified by their parents, mainly their mothers. Suddenly, the woman who once tucked them in at night begins to say... Read More