The American Girl. The Boy in the Woods. The Angel of Death. Like the refrain of a song, these phrases are repeated throughout Monika Fagerholm’s dark coming-of-age novel, "The Glitter Scene". In 2004, Johanna and the popular Ulla... Read More

“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane’s heart.” These lines begin Bonnie Jo Campbell’s stunning new novel, Once Upon a River, a story whose seemingly simple rhythm is as... Read More

There are few people who don’t appreciate the taste of a ripe tomato on a summer’s day. Its tangy sweetness can make a boring turkey sandwich into something near remarkable, and don’t even try serving a green salad without its... Read More

As a book reviewer I am usually at once attending to both the words on the page and what should be said about them. With Twelve Breaths a Minute, however, I could not think beyond these essays. I could only read, unblinkingly, imagining... Read More

Shann Ray’s debut story collection has already won the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize. “The sentences in this book,” writes contest judge Robert Boswell, “have such grace and muscularity that they seem more... Read More

Dimitri Orlov emigrated from Leningrad to the United States in the mid-seventies with his family at age 12. He was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late... Read More

Highlighting varied approaches to the science of touch, massage therapist, educator, and author Virginia Cowen provides resources for parents committed to enhancing the health of their children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). With... Read More

"About Grief" creates a safe haven for the suffering and their family, friends, and co-workers. Placing the book in context, Ron Marasco and Brian Shuff write, “All the stories and information in this book are here for one reason: to... Read More