Alongside all the other reasons to be discouraged by the state of our union is the bitter divide in farm country between conventional farmers who rely on fertilizers and herbicides and the organic types who work to replenish the soil... Read More

Light Up the Night / America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival / Travis Lupick / The New Press / Hardcover $26.99 (256pp) / 978-1-62097-638-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Travis Lupick’s... Read More

At best, historical fiction helps you experience a time and place with the seeming precision of memory or nostalgia. You may not have actually been there to see the events but the talented novelist offers a close second. In Marines of... Read More

As we do at the very beginning of every year, this week we’re offering you an assemblage of favorite questions and responses from the previous year’s fifty-plus interviews between reviewers and authors. Please give this an attentive... Read More

Slow Fuse of the Possible / A Memoir of Poetry and Pyschoanalysis / Kate Daniels / West Virginia University Press / Softcover $21.99 (252pp) / 978-1-952271-38-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Poet Kate Daniels’s... Read More

For all the pain and uncertainty of the past year, from week to week, we hoped that the interviews in Foreword This Week offered you a needed respite. As we do at the end of every year, we’re excited to offer you a curated selection of... Read More

Fun & Funky Cross Stitch / 160+ Designs, 5 Alphabets, 30 Bonus Gift Ideas / Immediate Media / C & T Publishing / Softcover $19.95 (80pp) / 978-1-64403-153-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / With a mix of retro style and... Read More

When it happens—and it will happen—we can’t say we weren’t warned. No, we’re not talking about hair loss. What we’re pointing to are all the warnings about something much more serious, perhaps even to the tune of hundreds of... Read More