With the title "Pioneers of Digital", one might assume that this book features those individuals who have pioneered such well-known online companies as Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, and the like. Rather than tread common ground,... Read More

Malevolent machines remain a mainstay in science fiction, with evil supercomputers as a well-known version of vicious manmade artificial intelligence. Calvin J. Brown’s brilliant debut novel, "Six", turns the trope upside down. Six,... Read More

Shedding new light on the familiar tale of the birth of Jesus, Mary’s Choice takes a look at the life of his mother, Mary. What might Mary have been like as a child, or as a young woman? Was she a normal kid, growing up among friends... Read More

In New York City, a lot can happen in a day. So discover the characters in this exquisite debut novel by Richard Kramer (writer for My So-Called Life). Teenaged Wesley’s family is quintessentially new New York. He’s ensconced in a... Read More

In "The Home Front", Alan J. Summers offers a revealing glimpse of civilian life in 1940s wartime England. Set in a small seaside town in Essex, a county northeast of London, Summers’ story, which draws on “anecdotes and... Read More

There are any number of clever ways of categorizing "True Swamp", each of them more or less accurate; most recently, I’ve taken to referring to it as a profane post-punk Pogo. However, the single word that all of those descriptions... Read More

Mary Tabor’s Who By Fire, about a man reckoning with his wife’s death, serves up language so precise and assured that it leaves a reader breathless with its quiet force. There are no loose ends in this intricate story by an... Read More

How can one not like characters who are “encumbered by education and no fortune,” or who, when asked if they are drunk, describe their condition as being “a little short of the high mark of sobriety”? Such are but two of the many... Read More