When a teacher takes her life, an unnamed narrator proves determined to ensure that her story is not lost to memory. Driven more by psychology than its plot, "The Teacher" is a chronology-jumping character study about the individual... Read More

"The Worst First Day" is an accessible history of segregation and racism that encourages critical thinking. In 1957, the simple act of going to high school transformed Elizabeth Eckford into a nationally recognized figure. She and her... Read More

The book shatters the mirror of traditional literary models, and holds the cold, sharp shards, shining, up to the light. Literary fireworks abound in Peter Quinones’s "Postmodern Deconstruction Madhouse", a cosmopolitan collection of... Read More

Writing is clipped and punchy; at times, it intentionally obfuscates, and its gory details are sure to set stomachs churning. Nicholas Day’s short story collection "Now That We’re Alone" is a bizarre mix of makeshift golems, ghosts,... Read More

Straightforward, descriptive poems evocatively search for meaning. William Yager’s poetry collection "Traveling Through" combines ruminations on life in the modern age with odes to God and the natural world. Yager contextualizes the... Read More