Joseph Dougherty, whose script credits include his Emmy-winning work on the sitcom thirtysomething, as well as Pretty Little Liars, shares his personal writing philosophies and best practices in A Screenwriter’s Companion. The book... Read More

In Mark Ristau’s brilliant psychological novel "Beyond the Threshold", a man grapples with his untreated childhood traumas. After a summer camp experience left him marred, Ricky is sick of being picked on, and he’s tired of feeling... Read More

"The Backstreets" is an absurdist, stream-of-consciousness novel by now disappeared Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun. It is an ominous meditation on isolation, oppression, and dehumanization. One night, an anonymous Uyghur government office... Read More

"Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood" traces the growing promise of New York’s LGBTQ+ community. Organized into a three-act structure, the book moves from John D’Emilio’s boyhood to his Jesuit education, his experiences of change,... Read More

Rubén Degollado’s resonant novel "The Family Izquierdo" maps three generations within a Mexican family on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. A family tree orients the reader among the book’s large, mixed ensemble, whose members are... Read More

The first full-length novel in the expansive Birdverse series, "The Unbalancing" is an LGBTQ+ fantasy overflowing with heart—and heartache. Long ago, twelve stars dropped from the tail of the goddess Bird. They were caught by twelve... Read More

Jennifer L. Wright’s intelligent and arresting historical novel focuses on two girls who witness the atomic bomb test in New Mexico. In 1944, the US Army claims Olive’s family ranch through eminent domain. Against her will, she’s... Read More

“Each and every extinction has its own story,” writes Thom van Dooren in his attentive, elegiac book "A World in a Shell", which regards Hawai’i’s lost and endangered snail species as instructive microcosms of biodiversity loss.... Read More