“Getting a pizza delivered is particularly challenging,” writes the author. “When I tell them my name there is always a pause, a moment of disbelief.” Her aunt was Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Roosevelt; her father... Read More

“After college I tried for a couple of years to get a job teaching,” explains the author about her experience in the late sixties. “Not one public or private school in the area would hire me-a teacher in a wheelchair.” Irvin, who... Read More

Unless they’re remarkably well-adjusted, most teenage girls go through a period of feeling embarrassed and slightly horrified by their parents, mainly their mothers. Suddenly, the woman who once tucked them in at night begins to say... Read More

It is not enough anymore to train hard and smart or get enough sleep to get ahead of the pack in the world of competitive athletics. Even the notion of “eating right” and maintaining a proper diet has become a complicated science in... Read More

The author has brought to the page quirky characters and settings that could only exist in real life in the American South. His main characters are neither poor nor rich and fall somewhere between having a high school and college... Read More

Selected from Gowanus, the web magazine devoted to the contemporary writings of third-world authors, this anthology enlightens its audience with a thought-provoking mélange of essays and short stories. The reader is constantly... Read More

Genius and madness can be very close. Or so says Dan Seagrave, the fictional voice in Baker’s Testosterone. As the title suggests, the work is aggressive, edgy, and definitely male dominated, revealing a life fueled by love and... Read More

“A rock concert should be counterculture and youth-driven—not something you invite your mother to. Rock is the opposite of mothers.” If this sounds like an insider observation about teen thinking, it is. It comes from a Woody... Read More