"Seeking Shade" is a wonderful short story collection that speaks to the universality of feelings and circumstances. Relationships with others and oneself are the center of... Read More

Inventive scenarios make the short stories collected in "Urban Disturbances" disturbing, disarming, and worthwhile. Bruce McDougall probes the undersides of city and suburban... Read More

"Midland" is a resounding, redemptive novel about healing from a tragedy. In Ross Breithaupt’s measured novel "Midland", a young man works to heal following his brother’s... Read More

"Affect" is a surreal novel about death, love, existence, and nonexistence. A woman grapples with intense philosophical questions and romantic feelings for a classmate in... Read More

"Casting into Mystery" is a collection of poetic essays that explore fly fishing from the perspective of one of its ardent practitioners and advocates. Robert Reid explores the... Read More

"Fair" is a contemplative novel about trauma and connection among society’s most overlooked people. Milton’s epic Paradise Lost provides comfort and courage to a homeless... Read More

Daddy Hall’s richly lived life is captured in linocuts that are both brutal and poignant. Tony Miller’s Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts is a potent visual... Read More

Harris’s poems zero in on poignant moments with vibrant attention to detail. In his poem “Killing the Beast,” Michael Harris writes, “I wanted to slow it all down enough... Read More

This creatively structured, memorable memoir includes a mix of humorous anecdotes and classical music trivia. An accomplished cellist, Ian Hampton has played with the London... Read More

Angled approaches, revealing inner character one carefully chosen word at a time, are a Reibetanz specialty. In the Porcupine Quill’s wonderful collection "The Essential John... Read More

The pictographs read like nature-administered Rorschach tests, with interpretations revealing themselves after prolonged analysis. Pictographs: The Graphic Art of James Simon... Read More

With her deeply searching observations and trippy, winding way with words, P. K. Page was ahead of her time. Renowned Canadian poet P. K. Page wrote a great quantity of... Read More