The 1920s and 30s are usually regarded as Hollywood’s “golden years,” when the film industry began first to capture America’s, and then the world’s, imagination. More than a booming town that had humble beginnings, Hollywood... Read More

A kind of Catcher in the Rye for a new generation of alienated gays, this novel rarely understates anything as it piles pathos upon estrangement upon pathos. The protagonist, nameless except for an infrequently used nickname, is an... Read More

Skillman, author of the thrillers Someone to Watch Over and Buried Secrets, shares her insights into the thriller genre by providing information and advice for prospective writers. The first piece of advice she shares is the definition... Read More

Since the recent passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, with its requirement of reasonable workplace accommodation for persons having a range of physical and psychological disabilities, the complex situation of workers with... Read More

Carolina Ghost Woods, Jordan’s winning manuscript for the prestigious Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets is a walloping, gritty and fearless short collection. In a mere two dozen poems, some of them long, she presents... Read More

“Life is good. It only has bad times.” This is what the Indian maiden White Moon decides early on after she is taken captive and her husband killed during a raid on their tribe by an invading new people, the “Shaved-heads.” One... Read More

Perhaps real-life spies, whose aliases and fictional facades camouflage their inner lives, are themselves the unconscious novelists of our time, distilling from their actions a purer purpose, a more humane plot. Harry Gold, in real life,... Read More

Do not presume to anticipate the course of these deft poems. Rather, know that each one acts as ballast against lyric predictability, nailing the dimwitted reader and the expert alike with a sure blow between the eyes. These are... Read More