Always Greener / J.R.H. Lawless / Uproar Books / Softcover $16.95 (292pp) / 978-1-949671-04-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Eight ordinary people compete to see who has the worst life in J.R.H. Lawless’s piercing... Read More

There is no denying that the past four years have been politically polarizing for the American people. Long-simmering tensions have risen to a fever pitch, and cracks have stretched to chasms as families, friendships, and society at... Read More

Politics is the seedy foreplay of governance. All the speeches and absurd campaign promises eventually lead to getting someone elected, and then shit gets real because government officials wield enormous power. Democracy’s great leap... Read More

The Bear / Andrew Krivak / Bellevue Literary Press / Softcover $16.99 (224pp) / 978-1-942658-70-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / The Bear is a dreamy dispatch from the end of the world. In Andrew Krivak’s palimpsest... Read More

What the world doesn’t need is more back cover copy. We’re reminded of this fact every so often when a new book comes along with a title so explicit, so wonderfully self actualized that anything more would be superfluous. So thank... Read More

Elsie / Nadine RobertMaja Kastelic, illustrator / Abrams Books for Young Readers / Hardcover $16.99 (40pp) / 978-1-4197-4072-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Being the youngest of seven, no one takes Elsie’s ideas... Read More

Truth be told, most of us are prickly about our food decisions. We DO NOT like being told what to eat. Even so, we hear the voices in our head whispering about the health, ethical, and environmental consequences of what we consume. It... Read More