By Ella Boyd   The chapbook Patterns on the Wall by D. H. Jenkins provides a smattering of poems centered around simple, elegant themes...

By Eduardo Jáuregui Martínez Power Ballads , a short-story collection from the hands of Will Boast, is a love letter to music and the...

By Mike Sluchinski Diving into a surf movie always involves a headfirst leap of faith and watching the Golden Breed  (1968) is no...

By Cierra Buchholz Emily Janes' fantastically weird and charmingly loveable sophomore novel, Here Beside The Rising Tide , expertly blurs...

By Maria Duarte The Lyric Hotel by Susan Sisko Carter centers on, Jeanette, a director for commercials who, after her husband’s death,...

By Ella Boyd I, Caravaggio ,   Eugenio Volpe’s debut novel modernizing the internal narrative of the iconic and infamous Italian painter...

By Carolyn Martin   Joanne Durham’s entertaining and inspiring chapbook, On Shifting Shoals,  epitomizes Wallace Stevens’ famous...

By Cierra Buchholz   Buster: A Dog, by George Pelecanos, is an 88 page novella narrated by Buster, the family dog, that gives readers a...

By A.M. Larks Creatures,  the first novel by Crissy Van Meter, is like free diving in an ocean of relationships, where one holds their...

By L.J. Provost     Like many mysteries in life, Kaia Gallagher’s had been hiding in plain sight. She was 5 years old when she realized...

by Maria Duarte In Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survivor Alfred J. Lakritz takes the reader through his and his family’s journey of...

By A.M. Larks I was lucky enough to catch the California World Premiere of “Wipeout” by Aurora Real de Asua on the closing weekend at the...

By A.M. Larks Julia Armfield’s Salt Slow is a collection of stories that bend around reality and peek into the often unexamined corners...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we thought we’d spotlight six different collections of poetry. Read on and pick your favorite, or...

By A.M. Larks The Pickle Index is another dystopian satirical novel brought to you by the minds that created The Silent History. And like...

By A.M. Larks Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal is a humorous and brilliant blend of a novel. Weaving together a...

by A.M. Larks The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed is a poignant novel about the tribulations of growing up and how quickly world...

by Jody Gelb Review by Maria Duarte She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy by Jody Gelb is a micro-memoir about how a mother...

by Priyanka Kumar Review by A.M. Larks In Conversations with Birds, writer and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar introduces the reader to not only...

Review by A.M. Larks Taste is an often underused sense in writing, but not so in Thien Pham’s new graphic memoir Family Style, where it...