Imagine the journalist’s life: immersed in experience, on intimate terms with one’s subject, embarked on multiple and continuous journeys of discovery, and then asked to explain it all to a distractible audience. This is Lawrence... 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

For those seeking stable employment in an unstable economy, the federal government, where salaries average $81,258, may be the best place to look for opportunities. Dennis V. Damp’s The Book of U.S. Government Jobs, 11th Edition is a... Read More

Ever since the tsunami, things have been getting stranger and stranger for reporter Shogo Kosaka. From the moment he meets teenage psychic Shinji Inamura in the storm and begins investigating a young boy’s death, a mysterious web of... Read More

The author’s clever plots lend themselves to unique twists, as in The Lure, Parallel Lives, and Looking Glass Lives. The plot of Onyx, set in the early 1990s, is deceptively clean: two long-time male lovers are coming to the end of... Read More

Erna Mueller’s "A New Leash on Life" began its life as an award winning screenplay that was later adapted into a novel which won first place in the 2009 Good Read Fiction competition at a Woman’s Write. As a novel "A New Leash on... Read More

Moments after she discovers her grandmother dead in the house they share, four- teen-year-old Miri Ortiz begs an adult male friend to take her in. She pitches him on marriage. When he declines, she makes another proposal: “ÔThen... Read More