“Grandfather is a good and decent man…he just wasn’t the love of your life” Erik repeats after a conversation with his grandmother. These words would be enough to shake most families apart yet the secret revealed to Esther Jensen... Read More

“The hardest thing for you to understand said [King Ec’ron] would be that not only are you on a different planet but that you are some sixty-one Earth years in your past right now” the author writes. Thus goes the twisted and... Read More

When David Onslow the head of a highly successful biotech company learns he has a growth in his brain he’s far from happy about it. When he learns that the growth is not cancer but alien DNA that entered his body when he was a boy and... Read More

“If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad believe me they never complained again.” —Henry Hill from the movie Goodfellas In the heart of Manhattan’s Little Italy violent men whose... Read More

“Running your own small business is fun and not too difficult especially if you are an artist because you already have what it takes to be successful” Virginia C. Green writes. Green’s book is filled with both encouragement and... Read More

A Journalist’s Sojourn:[/b] Take a pinch of Mark Twain, add a dash of Studs Terkel, and you’ll have the recipe for Amos Jay Cummings’ westward-ho dispatches for the New York Sun. Cummings was a man of his times: he was awarded the... Read More

Isaac’s Torah (Other Press, 978-1-59051-245-6) is a very funny book about very sad events. Isaac Blumenfeld suffers at the hands of the Nazis, loses his entire family when his village is invaded, and is sent to a Siberian labor camp... Read More

In "The Pets" (Open Letter Books/University of Nebraska Press, 978-1-934824-01-6), Icelandic writer Bragi Ólafsson gives us Emil Halldorsson, who experiences a similar dislocation in a more contemporary setting and without the drastic... Read More