The facts about heart disease in American women are tragically absent from our contemporary public dialogue. Dallas-based cardiologist Shyla T. High aims to change that, and her excellent new book, Why Most Women Die: How Women Can Fight... Read More

Alice Breon, author of Green Gravy, Monster Bread and Other Adventures, adds another volume to her memoir with her new offering, "Holes in My Shoes". This is actually a prequel to Green Gravy, in which she discussed her life over the... Read More

Twenty-One Days Later chronicles Tony Baccarini’s three-week stay at Kenilworth Clinic, a psychiatric institution in Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the poems revolve around staff, fellow patients, the author’s treatment for bipolar... Read More

Frederick L. Coxen’s life was changed when he stumbled upon his late grandfather’s journal from World War I. Coxen did more than just transcribe the worn, weathered diary and annotate it with maps and a historical narrative to create... Read More

Receiving an unexpected inheritance is a dream for many, but in Martin Boltax’s debut novel, The King of Babylon: Search of the Eternal Truth, inheritance can have dangerous consequences. The story opens with John Karras recounting... Read More

“It didn’t matter to Ray if they were for or against the war. He just couldn’t take listening to someone who hadn’t been there. They didn’t belong to the same fraternity, the one that had taken his youth and made him bitter... Read More

“If things were as they should be, another kid would be telling you how to do these things, or you’d be telling another kid. But since I’m the only kid left around who knows how to do these things…I guess it’s up to me.” So... Read More

The author’s youngest son, Joel, thinks he is God. As God, “J” doesn’t need to eat, protect himself from Minnesota winters, or take his prescribed medication. J was diagnosed with schizophrenia in college, and since then, his... Read More