Imagine Cary Grant. Wouldn’t he be a great dinner companion? Co-worker? Next-door neighbor? According to the author, that’s because Cary Grant was the most charming person in recorded history. Certainly, his “chiseled” good looks... Read More

This sad and moving story tells of the author’s terrible car accident, in which he and his beloved wife, Marian, and their two daughters were badly injured. The scene is set just prior to the accident, which came to Bohlmeijer in a... Read More

The women’s movement, like all waves of social change, left casualties in its wake. Conservatives decry its neglect of the housewife, while pundits trace the realignment of political parties to white males’ new insecurities. The... Read More

Michael Burke’s debut novel, "Swan Dive", is a deft turn into the modern-day hardboiled detective novel. Pay-ing homage to classic crime writers like Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, Burke delivers neo-noir that is a little more... Read More

Poet Richard Carr weaves together lovely and unlikely connections in his Gival Press Poetry Award winner, "Honey" (978-1-928589-45-7). Wrinkled plants, a goldfish and the poet drink water while outside, “The clouds rain gasoline.” A... Read More

"The End of the West", Michael Dickmans exuberant first book, is lit by all varieties of conflagration. The speaker describes brain, eyes, and lungs making up a “burning chandelier” inside him. And no wonder: His memory is full of... Read More

In his provocative map of the current religious landscape, The Next Christendom, religion writer Philip Jenkins pointed out that the future of the Christian religion lay not in the often wooden and lifeless practices of North American... Read More

“I am hardtop ironclad crash-tested / and only need someplace safe to sleep / or sleep it off / or sit up sleepless” Richard Carr writes. "Ace" a novel in verse interweaves four lives separated through hurt longing and rebellion in a... Read More