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Accidental ActivistAuthor: Mary Allen JolleyPublisher: Livingston Press at the University of West AlPublication Date: Jun 28, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

These are stories about movies and the underside of trying to live up to male tropes. The men in these stories hurt and get hurt. They push too hard and not enough. They disappoint others and...

A totally illuminating collection of stories centered around China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, which, as we learn, continues even today-with both sides still holding out, with "apologies...

A romp through the Roaring 20s! Baseball big-leaguer Mort Hart, trapped between an insane Al Capone and a vengeful Ty Cobb must use his wits to save his skin and the skin of the woman he loves,...

Set in the slums of New Orleans, among crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of 16-year-old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers financial hardship and...

Tartt First Fiction Award Elemental spans six decades following the struggles of two white families and several Lakota women in North Dakota. These characters share fearless journeys into both...

Winner of Changing Light AwardAuthor: MICHAEL. GEORGEPublisher: Livingston Press at the University of West AlPublication Date: Aug 02, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Following Richard Brautigan concerns a young writer of bad poetry living in Oklahoma City in the late 80s, who is visited by the ghost of the hippie writer Richard Brautigan. Jack, when the...

Fiction. Hope comes as a hopscotch board on the sidewalk entrance of a hospital in Greensboro. Despite efforts to remove the board, it re-appears until physicians, hospital employees, and patients,...

If is a novel of ideas. You, the reader, are the nameless protagonist, a young dreamer from northern California. At the end of each chapter, you must make a pivotal decision. These choices shape your...

A serio-comic novel that plunges into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting motivations plague Gafni: his extended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who...

"Dex" Poindexter is a neuroscientist conducting research on traumatic memories, looking for ways to treat or heal them. Under the guise of "approved" research, Dex discovers that memories can be...

Winner! Tartt First Fiction Award! The Love Box is a camera, a fight, an oven, a heart. These 22 stories document the torments of young men and women haunted by unreasonable attachments to other...

Fiction. Unabashedly funny at turns dirty, revolting, tender and sarcastic Daniel S. Libman's stories bring us a new style that is part inner dialogue, part comic monologue Grace Paley meets Charles...

Many of these stories-most especially "The Man Who Haunted Himself" and the title story-were inspired by dream visions. I try to take such visions and search for the human truth concealed within,...

The cast of characters and settings in My Father Moves Through Time Like a Dirigible are quite diverse from an eleven-year-old at a wake to an octogenarian in a grade school principal's office, with...

Jake Garrett, a writer living in New York's Greenwich Village, is paid a surprising late-night visit from the husband whose wife, Vera, Jake had an affair with ten years earlier. Even more...

Ely's last, terse novel has Chalmers Plumb wanting to manufacture his father's canoe design until his father is murdered by barbed wire strung across a river. Chalmers then saves a Romanian...

Nine stories from the finalists in the Tartt First Fiction Award. At time of writing, these include Tara Mantel, CB Anderson, Betty Jean Tucker, Charles Boyer, Dan Pope, Gregg Cusick, Mary Helen...

Southern Writers Reading was the literary scene gone rogue, upsetting the apple carts of more than a couple of self-satisfied editorsin the region. It was the anti-establishment strain of the...

"Karen Heuler's THE SOFT ROOM starts with a provocativepremise and twists its way into unexpected territory. Exploringthe meaning of pain and duality, her characters end up in aweirdly life-affirming...

Selected stories by a story-writing master!Author: Corey MeslerPublisher: Livingston Press at the University of West AlPublication Date: Jul 02, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An Excerpt: Some decades back, a Quaker named Richard Millhouse Nixon wrote a book entitled Six Crises. An opposition psychiatrist was quick to pick up on this title and note that President Nixon saw...

While in the archives room of the Siena Municipal Public Library, I noticed a cardboard box labeled "Lorenzini?" Since Lorenzini wrote Pinocchio under the pen-name Collodi, I opened the box and was...