The direct, poignant short stories collected in "Scar Songs" tap into universal feelings of loss and regret. In W. Royce Adams’s short story collection "Scar Songs", people cope with loss and their past mistakes as best they can. In... Read More

Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays "On Christopher Street" illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. Denneny spent much of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s writing and publishing on subjects of interest to gay... Read More

In Ada Zhang’s short story collection "The Sorrows of Others", people of all ages confront personal and cultural losses. Throughout the book, Chinese and Chinese American people face an age-old problem: loneliness in the company of... Read More

The stories of Scott Gloden’s collection "The Great American Everything" explore family relationships and social problems. Anxious parents drill their five-year-old daughter on how to handle emergencies with frightening results. A... Read More

A man under an inexplicable “curse” hopes to leave a worthy legacy behind him in Michael Thompson’s novel "How to Be Remembered". For most children, a birthday is a time to celebrate. For Tommy, it’s a time to be forgotten: at... Read More

In Marta Balcewicz’s novel "Big Shadow", a lonely teenager’s lunge for freedom ends in disappointment and near disaster. Seventeen-year-old Judy’s friend Alex has given her an important job: watching the clouds for signs of the Big... Read More

New arrivals and fresh discoveries rock a wealthy family’s dependable existence in Paul Serge Forest’s novel "Everything Is Ori". The Lelarges own a successful fishery business that has only continued to grow in profits and prestige... Read More

In K Patrick’s novel "Mrs. S", a woman navigates a new job far from home, as well as her growing feelings for an older woman. At an old-fashioned girls’ boarding school in England, the new matron is anything but traditional. She’s... Read More