She is the author of eight collections of poetry and a memoir, and the long arc of Grace Schulman’s stellar writing career reminds us of the labor involved in a single poem,... Read More

Every author launches their book into the world with a prayer. Please, powers that be, let this humble collection of words make teenaged girls laugh uncontrollably, or provoke... Read More

Diane Glancy’s "Island of the Innocent" explores the “Book of Job with poems and poetic prose until the fissures” appear. Other times and places bleed into the story,... Read More

In busy Beijing, everyone is connected. So a writer discovers when he’s tasked with telling the billionaire Qin’s enmeshed story in Jonathan Tel’s deliciously tangled... Read More

In Michael Carroll’s Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories, Key West is “a beautiful town … the last bastion, the place of the just-misfits.” This collection of eight... Read More

Part memoir, part biography, "Look Both Ways" traces the long path that sent Katharine Coles’s grandparents across the world, searching for oil and a resolution to their... Read More

Outstanding dialogue and realistic characters illuminate a convincing mystery in Edward J. Delaney’s "Follow the Sun". In coastal New England, tradition-hardened men are up... Read More

Mafuri Long is a young woman with ambition. She wants an Olympic gold medal, and as the only woman to have ridden an eighty-foot wave, she knows she is ready. The only thing... Read More

This author is one of those literary figures who is most often encountered as a minor figure in the biographies of better known artists with whom he was friends, such as... Read More