With a surety of time and place, this biting novel depicts a South still marked by racism. In Gray Stewart’s intriguing "Haylow", Travis Hemperly is lured back to his hometown of Atlanta by a surprising job offer to teach history at... Read More

A story about a Holocaust survivor seeking vengeance showcases Leviant at his absurdist best. Beneath the linguistic panache and magical realism of Curt Leviant’s endlessly consumable "King of Yiddish" lie complex questions of family... Read More

Southern Gothic short stories weave dark humor into the lives of bizarre and emotionally deep characters. Pat Mayer, Pushcart Prize nominee, employs pyromaniacs, schizophrenics, and other eccentrics to explore the South’s cultural... Read More

1920s Chicago comes to life in this dialect-filled, fast-paced adventure of gangsters, baseball, and the smart man who overtakes them both. April means spring training and baseball fever. And what better way to celebrate America’s... Read More

Cusick is an accomplished storyteller with a striking ability to inhabit the perspectives of men and women, young and old. The stories in Gregg Cusick’s collection, My Father Moves through Time like a Dirigible, display the author’s... Read More

Young characters personify a tumultuous era, giving it meaning to those for whom the Great Depression feels like ancient history. These ten stories, composed over the course of Betty Jean Tucker’s adult life, circle the era of the... Read More