An atmospheric, Hitchcockian maze reveals architect Pablo Simó’s entanglement in a crime set in contemporary Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro—Argentine journalist, playwright, and best-selling author of the award-winning novel... Read More

With characters that are sometimes uncomfortably human, Bartelmay lays plain the gut-wrenching ways people cope with suffering. Set primarily in the small town of Middeville, Illinois, during the second half of the twentieth century,... Read More

With a lyrical voice, Pamela Erens has written a novel about first love and sexual awakening that is multilayered and perceptive. This novel of academia is set in a fictional boarding prep school, Auburn Academy, in late 1970s New... Read More

Who is Dee, and what is he doing? One brave author follows this tortured soul in a work of astounding complexity and perplexity. My Name is Dee is either a groundbreaking piece of science fiction with a unique language, style, and... Read More

To subvert happily-ever-after, this poet populates his verse with grim Grimm characters and sprinkles in some dark humor. Ron Koertge—fiction writer, recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts... Read More

A balance of dark humor and a devastatingly sorrowful tone illumines the human condition in these elegiac poems. Appointed the first poet laureate of Missouri in 2008, Walter Bargen writes about humanity with a candidly chilling and... Read More

In Randall, readers find a reassuring voice—a strong, assertive narrator whose bravery resonates. Veteran poet Margaret Randall does not disappoint with her latest collection of poetry, "The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones". A... Read More

This plainspoken and quirky collection is imbued with a wit as comfortable as an evening with Garrison Keillor. Reading Patrick Irelan’s collection of fifteen short stories is like sitting in the town diner listening to a local tell... Read More