Hifalutin art snobs say that designers don’t qualify as artists because they’re constrained by budget, production specifications, and the unglamorous nuts-and-bolts parts needed to make things functional. In our mind, that’s like... Read More

At turns comedic, profound, hypersexed, imaginative, and jagged, this is a thoughtful tribute to the youths of the Kennedy era. "Goodbye, Rudy Kazoody" is an American coming-of-age novel set in an Italian immigrant neighborhood. A. A.... Read More

This is a sassy, wicked, sexy, gossipy look at life as lived under the influence of ego, raging hormones, and insecurity. Diva, devoted Mariah Carey fan, and consummate gentleman Prince P. has lots of female friends and really, really... Read More

"Take a Walk on the Bright Side" recalls a simpler time when family was everything. Eugene Bright’s memoir, "Take a Walk on the Bright Side", gives a detailed history of more than a century of the Bright family, detailing their... Read More

"Death in the Black Patch" blends chronicle with creativity to present a piece of the past. Bruce Wilson’s emotionally rich "Death in the Black Patch" paints a portrait of early twentieth-century life in the American South. Inspired by... Read More

A deep and abiding connection to the pastures and forests of South Carolina defines J. Drew Lanham’s remarkable, boundary-breaking memoir, "The Home Place". A birder, naturalist, and distinguished professor of wildlife ecology at... Read More

As Gwenn sleeps soundly, her curious cat, Rusty, stalks the neighborhood using all of his feline senses to explore, in Madeleine Dunphy’s "Cat in the Night". Bright stars and flashing eyes flicker across the deep blues and purples of... Read More

Translated from the original French by Karen Li, "Abigail the Whale", a.k.a. Marlène Baleine, by Davide Cali, follows young Abigail over the course of a week as she learns to use the power of positive thinking to overcome her fears and... Read More