Two men try to outrun the traumas of their past, but leave destruction in their wake, in the sensitive and suspenseful thriller "Buddies". In Kip Cassino’s taut chase thriller "Buddies", two veterans leave a bloody path behind them as... Read More

"Dancing with Langston" is a powerful novel about the rewards and the realities of following one’s dreams. A visit to an elderly relative turns a mourning woman’s life upside down in Sharyn Skeeter’s absorbing novel "Dancing with... Read More

"Buddies" is a heartbreaking story about friendships forged in dark places and the psychological toll of war. Kip Cassino’s dramatic thriller "Buddies" follows fugitives from a society that they almost died to protect. Captain and... Read More

Stalin’s quip that “one death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic” gets to the essence of how we become numbed by the frequency of mass shootings. We simply can’t compute the magnitude of such horror, but to read about the... Read More

In Lisa Van Orman Hadley’s novel-through-stories "Irreversible Things", a family moves from a Florida beach town to a Utah mountain town, trading in a dark situation next door for life with their Mormon family and transitioning from... Read More

In Jeff Gomez’s "Unfamous Men", two friends toil as migrant field workers in California, dreaming of a better life. One is hulking, loyal, and simple; the other is ambitious, quick-tempered, and bitter. It’s an open re-envisioning of... Read More

Hank Early’s "Echoes of the Fall" is an updated, modern take on noir detective novels with a Southern Gothic edge, trading gritty urban streets for seedy small town life in north Georgia’s Coulee County, where religion and violence... Read More

An interrogation of language, pop culture, society, and the self, Andre Perry’s essay collection "Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now" dissects uncomfortable truths and universalities. Utilizing prose, film excerpts, and fanciful talk-show... Read More