Even if one has been born and raised in the glitzy lights of New York City, this newest novel by Abrams shares a side and history of New York that can only be experienced through the eyes of her character, Chloe. Chloe is a professor of... Read More

The title of this book is enough to probably send it flying off the shelves and into the hidden corners of people’s lives where no one thinks they’re peeking and reading. While many readers and voters acted disgusted with the... Read More

Edgar Allan Poe could not have envisioned that his works of literary fiction would continually resurrect themselves long after his death, each time in a guise their creator might not recognize like zombies grafting rotting tissue onto... Read More

An attempt to review Gotham in a brief notice is as reckless as presenting the Himalayas in a three-minute, two-slide, one-question lecture. This disciplined yet exuberant narrative from the Dutch purchase of Indian land in the 1620s to... Read More

Birkerts is a secular prophet, a voice in the wilderness preaching the virtues of the printed word to a society mesmerized by electronic glitz. This volume is fittingly titled—a collection of essays whose common theme is that serious... Read More

The prose poem, like bluegrass music, is one of those “minor” forms that continue to thrive, thanks to a few skilled practitioners and a relatively small but faithful audience. With Traffic, his eighth book of poems, Anderson stakes... Read More

Series ISBNs: 1-56554-362-9 (Monster All-Stars) 1-56554-360-2 (Vulture’s Roost) 1-56554-359-9 (Slammin? Slime) 1-56554-361-0 (Surfing the Net) This is a new children’s series targeted for the “reluctant reader aged 5-12.” The... Read More

In his introduction to this slim but feisty volume of poetry by Norman Nichols (d. 1995), who wrote under the pen name Abnorman, David Williams maps Nichols’s poetic territory: “leather sex, heavy drug trips, orgiastic nights, high... Read More