“Literature like bloodletting, to avoid fever,” the author writes in "The Woman with the Bouquet". This collection of stories is for those who share this regard for literature, who see it as a salubrious—yet potentially... Read More

Finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, Stacy Tintocalis’s debut collection exposes the remnants of apple pie America. The book renders an unsettled contemporary world with characters who try to reconcile their past. The scenes take... Read More

"Concise Learning" is bound for many bookshelves for two key reasons: first, all libraries can receive a free digital copy of the book by emailing the author through his Web site (www.conciselearning.com); and second, Krasnic promotes a... Read More

More than one in ten of all children in the US and Europe are born to fathers who are age forty and older. At forty-seven, Lee Gutkind became one such “old new dad,” a term borrowed from Mark J. Penn. Truckin’ with Sam details the... Read More

“There’s no duty like it. There’s nothing in this world like it,” the protagonist of "Knife Song Korea" hears of his assignment—a surgeon in an Army artillery unit during the Korean War. There’s nothing quite like this book... Read More

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and J.T. Holden’s Alice in Verse both begin with an ending: “And now the tale is done.” Penned over a century ago, these words were never true and perhaps never will be: perhaps... Read More

In January 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts issued a report titled Reading on the Rise. Jim Collins explores the milieu that enabled this rise in "Bring on the Books for Everybody". But this monograph isn’t a dry report.... Read More

"Slut Lullabies" is not a book that soothes; these stories of wreckage and turmoil will not sing the mind to rest. Rather, Gina Frangello jolts readers awake. She takes on weighty contemporary topics—mental illness, domestic violence,... Read More