Christy Alexander Hallberg’s novel "Searching for Jimmy Page" is a character study about loss and identity. In 1988 in North Carolina, Luna—the daughter of a single mother... Read More

With a surety of time and place, this biting novel depicts a South still marked by racism. In Gray Stewart’s intriguing "Haylow", Travis Hemperly is lured back to his hometown... Read More

A story about a Holocaust survivor seeking vengeance showcases Leviant at his absurdist best. Beneath the linguistic panache and magical realism of Curt Leviant’s endlessly... Read More

Southern Gothic short stories weave dark humor into the lives of bizarre and emotionally deep characters. Pat Mayer, Pushcart Prize nominee, employs pyromaniacs, schizophrenics,... Read More

Cusick is an accomplished storyteller with a striking ability to inhabit the perspectives of men and women, young and old. The stories in Gregg Cusick’s collection, My Father... Read More

Young characters personify a tumultuous era, giving it meaning to those for whom the Great Depression feels like ancient history. These ten stories, composed over the course of... Read More

Sunday school morality meets ice-cold realism in a heartbreaking story of grief and revenge. This sophisticated novel of intrigue shines a revealing spotlight on the ugly... Read More

This unconventional historical novel set during the Russian Revolution focuses on Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, and not her more famous husband. Nadya is already committed to... Read More

Dear Reader, Sid Straw, barely recovered after a break-up, moves from Baltimore to Southern California to take a mid-level computer sales job from which he is promptly fired.... Read More

“Random things happen, and these are the things that change everything else.” *Shark Girls’*s second sentence succinctly states one of its themes—the long-term... Read More

Even in the postmodern era, it’s a stretch to call this a novel, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have its pleasures. More a collage of stories, poems, “music... Read More

“We’re never fully in the now, never free of the past and future. The only people who really live in the right-now are kids,” realizes middle-aged Cora, as she watches her... Read More