Genre-Bender Carmen Maria Machado Jumps into Comics with The Low, Low Woods
The traditional formula for a gothic tale tends to go something along the lines of “woman + atmosphere = gothic”. […]
Add Delightful Prose to The Third Rainbow Girl’s Praises
I was a little annoyed with the New York Times last week. In their January 20, 2020 rave review of […]
New Release: Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith
Happy book birthday to Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith!
An Honest and Raw Spiritual Journey
So Speak The Stars offers the rare chance for a reader to reflect alongside the writer. Written almost entirely in second […]
Vikram Paralkar Discusses Operating on the Unknown in Night Theater
Vikram Paralkar’s new novel is Night Theater. He spoke with Scott Stein on January 24, 2020. (This interview might contain […]
An Entertaining Mystery Grapples with the Brutal Truth of Slavery on a Fantasy Island
A beguiling experience, Kacen Callender’s Queen of the Conquered is at one and the same time a vacation on a tropical island, a voyage confronting the historical experience of slavery, and a delicate and nuanced exploration of the contemporary issue of what it may mean to be “woke.”
An Excellent and Important Analysis of Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia
Historian and native Philadelphian Timothy J. Lombardo contextualizes and explains Rizzo’s political career and his supporters’ motivations in his 2018 book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics.
Poems That Beg to be Written
These suggestions grab the imagination and keep it engaged.
Magically Real Dilemmas Best Read in One Sitting
To what extent would you go to preserve life? What about quality of life?
Analyzing The Memoirs of Wendell W Young III
Young’s memoirs include a secondary focus on local — and to a lesser degree, national — politics, specifically as the candidates supported labor or other progressive causes.