“I paint myself because I am so often alone, because I am the subject I know best,” said Frida Kahlo. Her painting, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, is in the Museum of Modern Art. Created in 1940, shortly after her divorce from... Read More

“Many of us carry around a bucolic view of farming, ranching, and rural America. We think of farming as being toxic only after the introduction of DDT at the close of World War II. Such presumptions are wrong,” Will Allen writes.... Read More

A love match progresses, matures to fruition, and inevitably ends as life does, in imitation of the growing season. These poems of engagement and sustenance are organized into three chapters: Melody, Rhythm, and Harmony. Sixteen of the... Read More

Ex-U.S. Marine Sergeant and former high school football and track star Robert (Roberto “Tito”) Ortiz of Laredo Texas has completed his self-styled “autobiography” as one of his lifetime goals. Although more of a series of memoirs... Read More

Paul L. Shriver has been writing for a long time, and his poetry collection, "The Girl and the Cat", chronicles such topics as unrequited and found love, the passage of time, and such political issues as the tobacco industry and the... Read More

When nine-year-old Megan mysteriously disappears, her older brother, Noah, sets out on a rescue mission. His only clues are a story Megan told before her disappearance and a tattered page of her journal left on Noah’s pillow by a... Read More

Wine, in its many flavors and forms, is one of the world’s most popular beverages. But its main ingredient, grapes, is cultivated using at least seventeen different insecticides, pesticides, and fumigants—many of which contain... Read More

It is rare to find a book with a half-dead protagonist. Tyler Leto is a corrupt adulterous and drug-abusing businessman who has become caught between life and Hell in "Grendel" Ken Brosky’s first novel. After a realistically depicted... Read More