Marjorie Agosín’s essays positively ache at moments: when she’s describing what it’s like to make home in a liminal space; as she calls out across time to memorialize family members who were brutally ripped away. And yet... Read More
Romance isn’t dead, it’s just mortified. The hilarious new anthology Condoms and Hot Tubs Don’t Mix is a collection of laugh-out-loud, weird, and scandalous personal stories of sex gone wrong. Movies, television, and pornography... Read More
Timely and important, "Who Will Speak for America?" is a powerful anthology of essays, poetry, fiction, and art that grapples with our current political situation. The book’s forty writers and artists explore the question of what it... Read More
Jerome Charyn has long been a prolific writer with diverse interests, and that clearly shines through in his latest essay collection, "In the Shadow of King Saul". Both literary and personal, it’s a strong collection of work spanning... Read More
Passion and warmth infuse these essays on aviation that will send interest soaring to the skies. The essays in James B. McConville’s "Talewinds" travel the globe, from the test fields of Lockheed Martin to the skies above Germany and... Read More
This is stand-up comedy in written form, a culmination of oftentimes universal thoughts that are given a winking twist. Patrick Dykie’s straightforwardly presented book "Simple Observations" is a humorous work that skips between... Read More
Laura Bernstein-Machlay is a native of Detroit who, after decades away, returned to her home to find it hovering on the brink of massive change. The city, past and present, is the backdrop for her essays. Most of the essays are personal... Read More
Michael Smerconish’s collection is compelling and entertaining—not as a filtering of daily news through a predictable ideological lens, but as a group of insightful entries into conversations about current events and issues. Although... Read More