Digital music king Charles Barca tumbles from his throne in the first few lines of this fresh, irreverent novel about the people behind the popular music industry. With the opening words, “Well, not fired, Charles,” Pinto grabs the... Read More

In the novella that begins this collection of various genres, Voltaire’s Candide has spawned a tenth generation who, like his forebear, journeys to discover the nature of man and does so under the guidance of a mentor, here named... Read More

What does it feel like to be an illegal immigrant? Tom Milton addresses this question directly in "The Golden Door", a book written in the voice of Maya Mendez, a young Mexican woman who has spent fifteen years living in the US. She’s... Read More

In the early pages of Julian Tepper’s simultaneously fretful and funny novel, "Balls", Henry Schiller, musician, lyricist, and emotionally crooked hero writes a song about his suspicious testicular pain. “A thousand curious aches, /... Read More

"The Ephemeris" by William Jay is a unique and artistic work with aspects modeled on the styles of the Renaissance and the classical Greek era. With a plot line that seems to be modeled on Homer’s Odyssey, it opens as a merchant... Read More

Dreamlike retrospection begins a slow motion version of the tornado with which this novel opens, spiraling down through seemingly bottomless layers of memory to alter psychological terrain as relentlessly as wind and rain reshape the... Read More

A protagonist’s soul is revealed only through the expertise of a skilled writer capable of capturing every thought, mood, and emotion. In "So L.A.", Bridget Hoida creates a poignant exploration of a grief-stricken artist’s mind as... Read More

Set in Beaufort, South Carolina, near the Sea Islands, and titled for the local concept of “dayclean”—the promising moment just before sunrise—this warm-hearted mystery featuring a fusion of cultures and dialects avows the... Read More