Fear. Boredom. Premature editing. These are just a few causes of writer’s block. This book gives writers the equivalent of a Craftsman professional toolset for breaking open its locks. Not the little red box that Dad kept in the back... Read More

Poker is played in a roughly similar fashion, with the same rules around the world, but the feelings of the players and the distinctiveness of each gathering’s atmosphere make every game unique. In this book of short stories, the... Read More

The editors’ previous collections, American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, have flirted with the dispirited and disquieting. In this new anthology, they offer what they see as... Read More

If home is where the heart is and love is blind, then many are left wandering. Such could be said of Tollie Ervin, the protagonist of the author’s second novel, about four thirty-something siblings who reunite after years of... Read More

“At least half of all people die early because of illnesses caused by lifestyle choices, dietary factors and behavioral patterns,” states the author, adding that it is never too late to make a change. Cancer is a frightening topic... Read More

Willie Lee Reed is eleven when he finds God in his fingers. He has just left the Detroit orphanage and come into the home of Reverend Stockton, a cruel man who nonetheless has the sense to recognize Willie Lee’s gift and present him... Read More

Vancouver, British Columbia-in the cutting italics that six-year-old Jack Klein’s mysterious uncle Avram uses to pronounce judgment on their homogenous homeland-is “the end of the world.” The globe, both literally and symbolically,... Read More

Imagine beautiful poinsettias growing like weeds! The author noticed that they grow profusely in Mexico. Where did these flowers come from? According to Mexican legend, a miracle produced the first poinsettias. In Oppenheim’s version,... Read More