“For most of us who possess the soul of a writer, there are book ideas that call us, begging us to write them and bring them out of obscurity. I think it would be sad to reach the end of our days and realize with regret that we never... Read More

On June 25, 1876, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and 2,000 Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne wiped out George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. It was a stunning and absolutely unforgettable event in American history.... Read More

Before about 1900, American presidents rarely spoke directly to the public, and doing so was considered to be in such bad taste that one of the articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson accused him of going on a speaking tour. It... Read More

The hundreds of men, women, and sadly, children staring back at the reader from the pages of "Where We Worked" have three things in common—they do not smile, their thin and stringy bodies evoke hard work and hard times (seventy-hour... Read More

Almost everyone knows someone with a serious ailment against which conventional medical treatment has failed. Many conditions seem to defy treatment, leaving victims, if not completely debilitated, feeling less than healthy. And many... Read More

Despite or perhaps because of social taboos against exhibitions of uninhibited behavior, the commercial appeal of erotica, sometimes classified as a lusty subgenre of romance, may exceed that of tamer types of fiction. With a guaranteed... Read More

Christopher Cartmill, successful New York playwright, director, and actor, disregarded Thomas Wolfe’s famous advice that “You can’t go home again,” and returned to his home in Nebraska to research and write a play. His subject... Read More

In The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, novelist Patrick Somerville offers a collection of short stories that transports readers into electrified landscapes of the mind. Eclectic and edgy, these fifteen stories range widely in subject... Read More