Meg Kearney’s first book, An Unkindness of Ravens, garnered BOA’s A. Poulin Jr. New Poet’s Award. It’s not surprising that her new collection, Home By Now, continues her practice of unforced, gracefully adept poems that are... Read More

It may have been Emily Dickenson who first suggested the fullness of absence, but in her appealing memoir, Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, Kyoko Mori updates the concept. “In knitting, the holes are constructedÂ…” she writes.... Read More

Two twentieth-century masters of the bildungsroman were James Joyce (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Ernest Hemingway (The Nick Adams Stories). Now the literary world has Joyce and Hemingway’s twenty-first century successor... Read More

"Midnight in Rome" follows in the tradition of recent memoirs that chronicle a significant year in the life of the writer, like Julie and Julia or Colin Beavan’s No Impact Man. Newly graduated from UCLA, California native Michael J.... Read More

Winner of the Ironweed Press Poetry Prize and one of two collections released by Whitley in 2009, This Is the Red Door is elegiac and meditative. While it takes up residence in the psyche, the book is equally grounded in the material of... Read More

From ancient times, legends of angels and angel-like beings have fascinated us. Such stories exist in every major faith system. Why do they draw us so compellingly, and what is their meaning for our lives? Rami Shapiro offers answers to... Read More

Providing guidance to parents on how to raise children is an age-old tradition. Manuals are available on how to make sure that children are optimistic, happy, smart, spiritual, compassionate, gifted, strong-willed, self-confident, and... Read More

Chris Landrum expected a quiet retirement when he moved to the small South Carolinian island community of Folly Beach, but unfortunately, murder keeps interrupting his plans. Author Bill Noel’s second entry in the Folly Beach Mystery... Read More