In a 1998 article in UNLV Magazine, the author claimed, “This is unusual, I know, but I never revise. If I write a poem and it’s not there, I don’t go back and try to refine the experience because that wouldn’t be true to time.... Read More

Reading this book is like listening to a veteran blues player—B.B. King, say—one so sure of his craft that he seems totally unconcerned about showing it off. Casual as they seem, the author’s poems generate unexpected intensities... Read More

This debut short story collection brings to life a sometimes fantastical group of characters whose experiences, countries, ethnicities, genders, and time frames widely range. From a Garwali-British orphan to a woman possessed by a spirit... Read More

Why do people kill in the name of God? What would motivate people to strap bombs to their bodies and detonate them in crowded places? In this book, the author, retired faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and an... Read More

Romance has not loomed large for some time now in romance writer Fiona Silk’s own life. But it really takes a nosedive after she returns home one night, slightly tipsy, to find a bad poet-and former lover-sprawled provocatively on her... Read More

Vancouver, British Columbia-in the cutting italics that six-year-old Jack Klein’s mysterious uncle Avram uses to pronounce judgment on their homogenous homeland-is “the end of the world.” The globe, both literally and symbolically,... Read More

Imagine that a human life might use as its sole metaphor a watch. Said watch becomes a symbol for the relationship of a boy with his fun, philandering father who sells watches and their parts to finance their bohemian life in Paris. The... Read More

The author steers dramatically clear of converting his teen readers to Buddhism, which is one aspect that makes this book enjoyable. He equates teens’ struggles with those of spiritual seekers, “all of which require awareness,... Read More