Heartbreakingly honest, authentically mature, Evans’s memoir is a testament to survival through loss and grief. Stanford fellow and poet John W. Evans delivers a memoir of unexpected grief which is both emotionally ragged and deeply... Read More

This noir detective story set in a future with paranormal Earth inhabitants blends genres in an interesting way. Reboots: Diabolical Streak is a noir-style detective story that takes place in a mash-up world of science fiction and... Read More

All the world’s a stage when an actress and a terminally ill TV executive meet in this biting comedy. It takes a special kind of talent to simultaneously skewer Hollywood and Shakespeare while writing a thought-provoking novel, and... Read More

Good and evil are questioned, violence is confronted as part of the human experience, and characters’ motives blur lines. Rich Shapero’s novel, "The Hope We Seek", takes place in a remote, unnamed place more than a century in the... Read More

Anoop Ahuja Judge shines at scene setting, in both India and the San Francisco Bay Area, with abundant, lush details. In "The Rummy Club", by Anoop Ahuja Judge, four high school friends from India reunite decades later in California,... Read More