North Carolina’s coast is notorious in nautical lore for the number of ships and lives it has claimed. In this collection Hagy creates an equally grim coast where people come to bury their hopes. From a frustrated, awkward adolescent... Read More

The art of story telling is alive and well in this intriguing collection of tales by Kalpakian. The Delinquent Virgin is a pleasant potpourri of humor, drama and unexpected twists. Although several stories are set in the fictional town... Read More

Gregg’s new book is fresh and fearless in that she writes beautiful and unabashedly spiritual poems that are free of the didactic, doctrinal or pretentious. Hers is a spirituality laced with silence and reflection but articulate of a... Read More

In Paul Weber’s world of no particular place or time, cigarettes are illegal, but they aren’t the only thing missing. Waldrop’s novel is a catastrophic account of the future political state given certain conditions. While the... Read More

The issue of immigration in this country is, and has been for the past two centuries, a potential minefield for those trying to clarify the debate and suggest policy changes. When the subject is broached, gray areas of emotion and... Read More

Nothing cuts through the veil of illusion quicker than a sharp stab of reality, especially the stabbing pain of loss—be it death, exile or innocence. It is human nature to deny that anything bad could happen to oneself or friends or... Read More

Enter the forest, the metaphor by which seeker/traveler/workshop leader Foster Perry draws readers into his mythopoetic spiritual journey. These are medicine journeys to sacred sites and shamanic teachers and life. Four sections define... Read More

Dark and wry ironies pile up like bodies on a battlefield in Jospi Novakovich’s fourth book, a collection of excellent short stories about Croations caught in the absurd twistings of their war-ravaged homeland or trying with equal... Read More