An athlete a businessman a man diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the sole survivor of five children John Wysner’s life story has the potential to make for compelling poetry. Unfortunately the poet never makes art out of these events.... Read More

Penelope Bernard’s tax-dodging husband a software hundred-millionaire crashes her against the rocks of a pre-engineered divorce trial easily manipulating false testimony from her hopelessly dependent younger sister and even the... Read More

The Celtic culture in America has not gotten the credit or attention it deserves, when one considers its great influence on Southern literature. That’s the contention of the author, a scholar of Southern literature. Cantrell asserts... Read More

A story about the thoughts and feelings of a toy bunny can’t help but call to mind The Velveteen Rabbit, that well-loved tale of a battered, longsuffering stuffed animal who longs to be real. Only a page or two of this book, however,... Read More

In "The Pain Nurse" (Poisoned Pen Press, 978-1-59058-624-2), Jon Talton manages to make a big city hospital seem as creepy as a haunted mansion. A SAVAGE KILLER IS ON THE LOOSE, a knife-wielding derelict sneaks into the hallways, the... Read More

In his provocative map of the current religious landscape, The Next Christendom, religion writer Philip Jenkins pointed out that the future of the Christian religion lay not in the often wooden and lifeless practices of North American... Read More

This exceptionally haunting collection of nine short stories about people reaching for consolation, meaning, and hope is the first such compilation by McGlynn, who teaches at Lawrence University. There is agony in these... Read More

In "The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones" Helen Hemphill combines conventions of Southern and Western literature, reflecting a firm foundation of historical research. Born the day Lincoln penned the Emancipation Proclamation, her... Read More