Richard Thomas Gall’s memoir, General Motors: Life Inside The Factory, is about an hourly employee working at the Flint, Michigan, General Motors plant in the 1970s. As the author says in his introduction, it is “the story of a... Read More

Every book and blog dedicated to the craft of writing repeats the same mantra: show, don’t tell. Sharon Wallace, author of "A House Full of Whispers", got the message. She impales the reader with descriptions of the abuse she and her... Read More

From 1652 to 1994, South Africa was ruled by a succession of white regimes notorious for exploiting the non-white population. Apartheid, imposed on the non-whites beginning in 1948, made life for blacks a living hell, and for Indians... Read More

“I will treat anyone anywhere any time, so long as they cannot pay.” For over four decades this mantra has driven Dr. Glenn Geelhoed to lead medical missions to treat patients and train medical personnel throughout the developing... Read More

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived.” These famous words by... Read More

In Old, Gay & Fabulous, first-time author Ken Sofronski begins by describing his early life growing up in a working-class, single-parent Philadelphia home with a closeted lesbian mother, employing a combination of wry humor,... Read More

Irwin Miller suffered through his father’s beatings, his unaffectionate mother’s habit of locking him in closets, and—like the other Jewish kids in his neighborhood—attacks from Catholic playmates who falsely believed that the... Read More

’I feel the hand of God in what has happened to me so far. As a doctor, I could be of service to God by serving my fellow man. That’s exactly the way I feel too, Bob. Let’s shake hands on that and pledge to each other that we will... Read More