When Marcia Moston’s husband, Bob, confided his belief that God was calling them to pack up and move to a Mayan Village in Guatemala, Marcia was stunned. In her memoir, Call of a Coward: the God of Moses and the Middle Class... Read More

Almost everybody knows that starting a successful new business requires an original idea, a lot of capital, and a carefully written business plan that will be adhered to no matter what. But what almost everybody doesn’t know is that... Read More

“Ships destroyed lives,” says Brian David Bruns, author and narrator of Unsinkable Mister Brown, and yet, he’s attempting the opposite: creating a life at sea for himself and his girlfriend, Bianca. What begins as a whirlwind... Read More

Imagine discovering eight hundred love letters written by your parents during their two-year courtship. At first Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald was reluctant to read the letters, to intrude on her parents’ private thoughts and feelings.... Read More

In the early pages of Julian Tepper’s simultaneously fretful and funny novel, "Balls", Henry Schiller, musician, lyricist, and emotionally crooked hero writes a song about his suspicious testicular pain. “A thousand curious aches, /... Read More

For an author who only published six novels (the posthumous Sanditon is a partial novel not published until recently), Jane Austen’s Regency-era fiction has immense staying power. Not only have her books spawned innumerable fan-fiction... Read More

“Kelly came back to the question again and again: what did it mean to be an American Zen Roshi nearing the twenty-first century?” If Denis Kelly’s life was made into a novel, no one would believe it, so the truth, told here as... Read More

Roi has come a long way from his days living as the dancing slave known as Snowy. He has a new family, he has just graduated at the top of his class, and he has a future laid out before him that includes membership in the elite inner... Read More