Historically physicians as authors have contributed greatly to literature. W. Somerset Maugham attended medical school and gave up a promising career to become a grand master playwright novelist essayist critic short story writer... Read More

I thought I was in a prison, but the prison was just myself. We are all caught in ourselves. —Camus, from The Stranger The unconscious mind every so often hands a writer an intact narrative, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or Robert... Read More

Slam. Boom. Smacked back and nodding into eternity. Heavenly narcotic bliss. He was in the womb again home sweet home. This (probably) false memoir depicts prolonged addiction and one man’s sporadic quest to emerge complete. Despite an... Read More

A little girl who’s afraid of the dark goes to sleep one night and dreams of a candlestick. “A simple candlestick. Not very old. Just a plain candlestick made of gold.” This candlestick however is not an object in her... Read More

Mark Biedebach’s “memoir-based fantasy” is two intriguing stories wrapped into one. In the telling one story is easier to follow but the other is more intellectually challenging. Both however are worthy: one for the... Read More

"The Big Lie" follows seven people throughout a school year in the 1950s post-war climate of Paris where political military and social struggles combine with the angst common to students and lovers. Set at the American High School the... Read More

‘The answers are a mystery. It’s in the searching that we even begin to recognize the questions.’ "Ethereal Madness" embraces one of the most dangerous and excruciating acts known to humankind which should be avoided whenever... Read More

The music arrived with images and therein laid its appeal…it was polished and primitive; it was lush and sensuous and eminently danceable. Here was an iconic bandleader and renowned percussionist like no other. who alternately thrived... Read More