A good title goes a long way—not that this author needs any help. Lucky for readers, the ten stories that make up this debut collection are every bit as gripping as the book’s provocative title suggests. Set in and around the... Read More

The author bares her breasts, her heart, and her soul in this provocative memoir about being turned inside out through the journey of motherhood. She delves into the depths of what it means to be a mother, sharing her unusual... Read More

Either the study of Latin is culturally irrelevant, utterly useless, elitist, and too difficult, or it is “a classical superstructure … alienated from its socioeconomic base” that nonetheless retains an inherent value in our... Read More

These nine engaging, well-turned essays on the writing of fiction reveal this about the author’s working methods in the first few paragraphs: “My habit, when writing about writing, is to proceed by a sort of benign plagiarism. I take... Read More

When Johnny Cash died in 2003, he left a gaping hole not only in the fabric of country music but also in the crazy quilt of American popular culture. The Man in Black, guitar slung over his shoulder like a gunfighter striding into town... Read More

This offering consists of thirteen poems two of them prose-shorts and six stories with floss-thin connections between them. Most poems are in the form of rhymed and near-rhymed couplets. The subjects are couplehood and the reflective... Read More

William Bellavia is a man born into one faith, who chose another. In his first book, Rebirth Pains, he discussed the history of Christianity and its influence on the American political landscape. This book delves into and digests the two... Read More

US sales for Amazon Media reached $3.58 billion in 2006, the first year Amazon outsold Borders in North America. Amazon is changing the publishing industry, and judging from this trend, self-publishing writers would be wise to at least... Read More