Most of the ten essays collected in "Inevitably Toxic" are based on papers presented at Claremont College’s “Contested Expertise, Toxic Environments” workshop in Fall 2015. Reading them is like attending an academic conference and... Read More

Kristin Bartzokis’s "(Extra)Ordinary Women" features ten contemporary stories of women who’ve been through hell and back. The hardships they endured are related with their firsthand input and a steady authorial tone. Each chapter is... Read More

Delightfully saucy, heartfelt, and passionate, these essays probe the place of art in contemporary life. Richard Teleky’s Ordinary Paradise: Essays on Art and Culture is a deeply satisfying collection about the enriching presence of... Read More

"They Call Me Orange Juice" is a wonderful collection from a talented and enthusiastic storyteller. Audrey McDonald Atkins’s "They Call Me Orange Juice" is an intimate compilation of funny, down-to-earth stories about the Deep South... Read More

In Chris Arthur’s masterful, elegant essay collection "Hummingbirds between the Pages", expansive and granular meditations on time, language, nature, mortality, and Northern Ireland capture wonder in the everyday. Taking its title from... Read More

Marjorie Agosín’s essays positively ache at moments: when she’s describing what it’s like to make home in a liminal space; as she calls out across time to memorialize family members who were brutally ripped away. And yet... Read More

Romance isn’t dead, it’s just mortified. The hilarious new anthology Condoms and Hot Tubs Don’t Mix is a collection of laugh-out-loud, weird, and scandalous personal stories of sex gone wrong. Movies, television, and pornography... Read More

Timely and important, "Who Will Speak for America?" is a powerful anthology of essays, poetry, fiction, and art that grapples with our current political situation. The book’s forty writers and artists explore the question of what it... Read More