Lopate’s stories of his mother paint a rather bleak portrait of the dark side of the American dream. Phillip Lopate’s A Mother’s Tale reveals the author’s complex... Read More

Novelist and poet Phillip Lopate sets these two novellas in Brooklyn, which becomes an almost magical, tragical-comical borough as readers learn how a stoic easily deceives... Read More

Newspaper writers get side-by-side billing with the literary elect in this thoughtful, nicely bound anthology, which is a comprehensive literary gathering of writing inspired by... Read More