In this fine collection of stories, characters often stumble upon what they’re actually looking for amid the flotsam and jetsam left by the receding dreams and washed-up hopes of not only their own lives, but all those around them.... Read More

Many people who struggle with excess fat don’t know how they got there and imagine that it is impossible to lose the weight. The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss parses down everything people will need to know to embark on... Read More

It seems safe to say that Sam Savage is a modern master of the monologue—a label that might be applied to him by one of his own characters, sarcastically, and probably in italics. Savage, who lives in Wisconsin, is also a national... Read More

Throughout the first two volumes of the Vimp the Viking trilogy, Eric Bignose has been the strongest of the young group of Vikings, a capable shipbuilder, and a sailor without whom the group’s adventures may well have come to an early... Read More

A reader’s relationship with books of a distinctive, unconventional, and, dare it be said, eccentric style is often a love-it-or-hate-it affair. "Catastrophically Consequential" is Stephen C. Bird’s offering to the genre of books... Read More

A quote from Thomas Mann on the back of this petite red hardcover gives a good taste of what’s inside: “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Dinty W. Moore, professor and director of... Read More

The power of love to harbor hope and vanquish obstacles is the core of the classic Ramayana, first written in Sanskrit in 300 B.C. Banished prince Rama’s mission to reunite with his princess, Sita, is populated by monkeys and... Read More

The power of love to harbor hope and vanquish obstacles is the core of the classic Ramayana, first written in Sanskrit in 300 B.C. Banished prince Rama’s mission to reunite with his princess, Sita, is populated by monkeys and... Read More