Raw prose evokes the animal nature of these inquisitive characters who fight for redemption across the globe. Ashley Mayne’s newest novel reads like a fevered dream as it trades between the accounts of a priest and a young man for whom... Read More

Memory, mental illness, and modern art are central themes in this clever literary puzzle. “There are so many ways to die, and even more ways to imagine it.” Carmiel Banasky’s first novel, "The Suicide of Claire Bishop", questions... Read More

An uncomplicated plot and even pacing allow the understated beauty of the language and deep-feeling characters to shine. "The Accidental Art Thief", by Joan Schweighardt, is the delightful story of a woman in her middle years forced to... Read More

Art and the role of the artist in society meet with African politics and exploitation in this meditation on action and consequences. An exploration of the human condition after and amidst tragedy, "Benchere in Wonderland" follows artist... Read More

Weiner’s book requires the abandonment of expectations and the willingness to delve into the lines between reality and unreality. As Czech Modernist writer Richard Weiner would have it in his provocative and existential exploration... Read More

Eddie’s everyman persona amplifies this entertaining tale of what happens at the juncture between the familiar and the unknown. Edward Lanning, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Ford dealership owner, is having a quarter-life crisis.... Read More

Evocative, metaphorical prose delivers this story of a writer’s suicidal depression interrupted by a child and the haunting voice of ancient fables. In a single summer day in Sycamore, Iowa (pop. 897), Cole Seatstone, writer, father,... Read More

An inspiring mother-daughter tale set in the Civil Rights era Deep South, with religious overtones and headstrong characters. Sanderia Faye’s Mourner’s Bench is an impressive first novel, set between 1964 and 1965 in Deep South... Read More