Last evening I was talking with two poet friends about the term ‘niche writer.’ We agreed that formula prose is a lesser sort of creation,
Old Jules and East of Eden meet William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Czech family tensions in rural America. Brothers and bad blood. Pulsing, metaphoric prose.
It should be easy to return a twice-stolen masterpiece – stolen once from a Jewish family by the Nazis and a second time from the
Henry Porter’s The Bell Ringers is set in England’s future, the very immediate future. Next week? Next month? Next year? It isn’t science fiction; rather,
Reading the book cover, I learned I would be following in the footsteps of Gabriella Mondini, and I assumed I would be tracing a map
Sometimes when picking a new book to review, it’s best not to look at the advance praise printed on the back cover. Words like “epic,
The best reason to belong to the American Academy of Poets is their periodic delivery of books containing the work of new and rising poets. It is both
Myrna Loy The Only Good Girl in Hollywood is the first formal biography of the popular star famous for the six Thin Man films made
Wow! What a roller coaster ride! Clinging to the painted cars, looping up and down on contorted rails, twisting and turning, are the hedge fund
Do you avoid poetry because it is something you were always told to decode? If so, you may be one of many who’ve contracted FOP
I have read and greatly admired all of Susan Vreeland’s novels describing actual artists and their struggles with artistic creation. In particular, I think she
Most readers, knowingly or unknowingly, bring something of themselves to each book they read. If they’re lucky, the book they have read will give something
MERCY, A CLIFTON COLLECTION What a novel can do in three hundred pages, a good poem can do on one. Lucille Clifton does it in
Inspired by the pulp magazine detective stories of the 1930‘s and ‘40‘s, Tumor is a graphic novel gathering in book form the eight parts that
The Baker’s Daughter is about as complex a novel as the title seems simple. The daughter is Elsie Schmidt of Garmisch, Germany. The novel’s Prologue
PLANT A KISS Plant a Kiss, perfect for Valentine’s Day, author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds have created a picture book that
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