"Call him Samuel Bennett." Dylan implores of his reader, echoing surely, "Call me Ishmael," from Melville's Moby Dick, another protagonist whose agency is faded in favour of adventure. This unfinished collection of stories by Dylan Thomas captures a strange young man's [...]
In Hardbarned!: One Man’s Quest for Meaningful Work in the American South, an amusing and insightful memoir by Christopher J. Driver, readers are invited to commiserate with a hardworking American in a tough world, trying to pursue the happiness of writing [...]
Any reader of popular fiction knows that underestimating the unlikely heroine is never a good idea, and this is poignantly restated in Epiphany's Gift, a timely thriller by Mallory M. O'Connor. Epiphany Mayall stands in the center of this story, while [...]
Pick a card, any card. “That must be uncomfortable,” says Alice, indicating with her eyes the elaborate construction of chains and restraints that binds the swollen body. “Oh, that! I hardly notice it any more. One learns [...]
In McDowell, tragedy and consequence lead an arrogant and narcissistic Dr. Hiram McDowell to examine his life and search for life’s meaning beyond winning and possessions. Hiram is first glimpsed leaving his Mt. Everest climbing partner to die. If that’s not [...]
Raw… gritty…no single adjective can sufficiently describe the intensity of A Child is a Piece of Paper, Lance Crossley’s starkly realistic novel. The year is 1960. Six-year-old Wanisin Blackwill and his older sister, Mitena, are forced to leave their Indian reserve [...]
Portraits is quite an achievement, as dauntingly detailed in its character descriptions as Shaw (who also wanted his actors to have particular heights, clothes, and eye colors, and his sets to have specific furniture), and as discursive in its stage directions [...]
Original Art by Steve Poulacheris - Copyright © 2019 Took an afternoon nap and had a peculiar dream about my father in outer space. It's quite a long story. It's good, though. We were both working on a project. [...]
By E.M. Forster Few things have been more beautiful than my note book on the Deist Controversy as it fell downward through the waters of the Mediterranean. It dived, like a piece of black slate, but opened soon, disclosing leaves of [...]
By J.B. Priestley There is one certain characteristic of contemporary literature which everyone must have remarked, but to which it is very difficult to give a name. It is straining language to call it this or that quality; yet a name [...]