She wore purple, a tight-fitting gown reflecting the spotlight with a shimmering glow that changed color with each subtle movement … Lavender nail polish sparkled in the light, and adamantine jewelry, which would appear gaudy in any... Read More

With top-notch writing and a suspenseful story S.K. Whalen’s Rooke’s Island is well suited for both children and adults. Protagonist Margery Mutters is independent intelligent and interesting—women with this holy trinity of... Read More

How can you convince a drunk of anything? “I’m sober and you’re not” Jeffrey Somach writes “so I know what I’m talking about and you don’t. Offended? Too bad. Not offended? Good. I’m a New Yorker and this is the way I... Read More

Johnny Verliebt epitomizes the lost boy. Mildly antisocial perpetually detached from those around him attracted to men the central character in Mark Lee Kirchmeier’s three-part short novel is first described sitting in a tree... Read More

“Only to a few, and they are very few, does an extraordinary life come; all the others must be satisfied with what they have.” Luisa, an aging accountant for a toy firm in Italy where she lives, deems herself satisfied with her... Read More

Though it might be hard to sell tickets to any staged performance of Acting Scenes and Monologs for Young Women, in her many small play scenes, Maya Levy has given a valuable prop: the script. Bearing down on each of the shockingly lucid... Read More