Facts / Mission: “Stone Bridge is admired for its reference works on Japanese popular culture, including comics and film, and for its illustrated approaches to the study of Japanese characters. Why this interest in Japan? We simply... Read More

Many readers and writers are focused now on how Americans can heal divides between us, and about the role that literature can play in doing so. It is also clear that hunger for unity does not mean a hunger for uniformity. Rather the... Read More

No parade of panels here. Instead, we’ve devised a tightly targeted format for DBW Indie Author, to send you back to your career grounded, focused, smarter.Speakers at DBW’s Indie Author program on January 19 have been chosen for... Read More

Facts / Mission: “Pyr has published in many areas of speculative fiction, including steampunk, epic fantasy, hard science fiction, sci-fantasy blends, alternate history, sword and sorcery, near future thrillers, and space opera.”... Read More

Immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. America has been a place of immigrants longer than it has been the United States of America. Immigrants were on the Mayflower. Immigrants built new lives here and... Read More

Sometimes the shortest stories are the sweetest treats; each tiny bite is as filling as a full meal and these short stories are no exception. For the readers looking for that smaller portion, check out this lists of books from our Winter... Read More

To Purdue scholar Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, hip-hop and American Islam are a natural match: both flourish beyond, and comment upon, a hostile status quo. And both provide a place of refuge and expression for African Americans held at the... Read More

Why do women read romance? It seems like only men ask this question. A few months ago, before the November election and its potentially world-shifting outcome, sex seemed relatively low risk—or, at least, less risky than it used to be.... Read More