“I dreamed of so much better. The old man hated me for it. No balls. Me or him.” From the start, first-time author Emory Black grabs the reader through staccato language, immediately establishing the narrator, Tom Hamilton, as an... Read More

“The greatest desire of any woman must be the realization of her dreams and the rejection of limitations on her abilities to achieve her goals…I believe that contemporary women have begun to recognize the power of middle age; to... Read More

“It’s sort of like a dream—only, it’s still happening. And it’s almost at the point where it doesn’t even bother me anymore. You accept these severe limitations, including the possibility that you may not even be experiencing... Read More

Every good story begins with a hook. But Gene Dick’s tale of a young man surviving the sinking of the battleship Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, begins with an improbably long hook—the narrator (a lawyer) interviewing a... Read More

The story N.B. Edge tells in "The Many Shades of Indigo" is not a pretty one. His focus is a vulnerable young man named Indigo and a small group of friends, all of whom are trying their best to make it through high school and out of... Read More

How many variations can one person find in the sonnet, the poetic form made famous by Petrarch, Spenser, and Shakespeare for their particular tailoring of it to suit their designs? The Canadian poet Wayne Clifford has added himself to... Read More

Few people ever get a firsthand look inside the storied halls of Princeton University, but The Princeton Experience Vols. 1-4 offers a glimpse into the life of a “Princeton man” between 1948 and 1952. H.S. MacAyeal vividly recreates... Read More

M. Mohan Shukla, a self-described yogi, corporate leadership teacher, and life coach, has written an impressive textbooklike volume on overcoming obstacles to self-realization. The scope, quality, and accessibility of the author’s... Read More