HOW TO KILL YOURSELF INSTEAD OF YOUR CHILDREN, a poetry collection by Quincy Scott Jones, reviewed by teri elam

How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, Quincy Scott Jones’ poetry collection, crawls into the bloodstream, lays in wait, … More

SELLING THE FARM, a C&R Press lyric memoir by Debra Di Blasi, reviewed by Aimee Parkison

Selling the Farm, winner of C&R Press Nonfiction Award, defies traditional notions of genre. This lyrical memoir is a biography … More

“Welcome to the California Club”: TWO CALIFORNIAS, a C&R Press short story collection by Robert Glick, reviewed by Feliz Moreno

There are nuggets of gold sprinkled throughout Robert Glick’s debut story collection Two Californias. The characters in these stories traverse … More

THE MIRACLES, the third poetry collection by Amy Lemmon, reviewed by Leonard A. Temme

Amy Lemmon’s new book of poems, The Miracles, dedicated to her two children—her two miracles—tells the story of a smart, … More

Leonard Temme Reviews Laura Catherine Brown’s Novel MADE BY MARY

Made by Mary is an intimate, compelling, tightly plotted, enjoyable novel about an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship. The mother is the … More

WHILE YOU WERE GONE, a novel by Sybil Baker, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron

While You Were Gone is a lovely read. It’s thoughtful, and deeply felt, and well-written, and structured with competence. It … More

LESSONS IN CAMOUFLAGE, a poetry collection by Martin Ott, reviewed by Micah Zevin

Can we ever leave war behind and not remember its images, its roles, and deaths, or will it forever follow … More

An Excerpt of Laura Catherine Brown’s Comic Novel MADE BY MARY

Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women, mothers, daughters and motherhood. … More

Lennon and the Spectacles of Fandom: An Interview with Christopher Bundy

I recently re-watched Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. I was house sitting for someone with a television. It was on … More