The words “pretentious” and “poetry” are so often used in conjunction, they might be mistaken for a single compound word. So it’s a joy and a relief to discover Kevin Carey’s "The One Fifteen to Penn Station", a collection of... Read More

“I am tired,” Susan Kay writes in an excerpt from her 2008 journal, “tired of my religion, of church, of all my personal and interpersonal dysfunctions. I want to have a wider swath of life…The stale odor of my confinement is... Read More

Billed as a memoir by author Timothy J. Richards Ship Happens! A Tiger Cruise Tale: How to Spend Six Nights on a Navy Warship for 70* is an extended personal essay with more than two dozen full-color photographs of the brief time he... Read More