*To live in this world // you must be able / to do three things: / to love what is mortal; / to hold it // against your bones knowing / your own life depends on it; / and when the time comes to let it go / to let it go. —*Mary Oliver... Read More

“…the only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved desirous of everything at the same time the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn…” —Jack Kerouac On... Read More

This is where America as we know it started. A dog named Willi has a person, Mr. V, who leaves her in a car on a hot day in Jamestowne Settlement. She escapes to check out Powhatan Village and an archeological dig. Canine and primary... Read More

Here is E.L. Alban’s paean for the complexity and richness of words those “filigrees of language …. like seedlings on the furrows of a field / that blossom into gardens / on the expanses of the soul.” Alban presents twenty-one... Read More

“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.” —Stephen Spender The problem with the art of the memoir is perception. Readers must decide if they are being shown a true representation of the past or a facsimile... Read More

Strange creatures unexplained lights a frightened family a hysterical community—all are ingredients in the story about events in Kelly Kentucky on August 21 and 22 1955. In "Alien Legacy" Geraldine Sutton Stith passes on the tale of a... Read More

Here’s a tall tale of forest-dwelling creatures who groove on kitchen gardens embrace routine and eschew change. “It’s not that they didn’t enjoy the occasional adventure just as long as they didn’t make a habit of it.” Then... Read More

*The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. —*Joseph Stalin One million people perished during the nine hundred day Siege of Leningrad but the city didn’t fall. This superb literary novel takes pains... Read More