Sofi Papamarko introduces us to a bundle of reality mixed into the fictional world of a dozen individual stories in Radium Girl. It begins with “Margie & Lu,” the Bathurst […]
Radium Girl
Author: Sofi Papamarko
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Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds
Author: Yvonne Blomer
What a pleasure to read a book of poems in celebration of water. Poets pay attention and in the case of this anthology, attention is paid to “varied and loved […]
In the Event of Contact
Author: Ethel Rohan
This collection of wonderfully crafted short stories portray snippets of everyday life in the extraordinary light they deserve. After all, there is never anything ordinary about anyone’s existence, not really. […]
Razor Wire Wilderness
Author: Stephanie Dickinson
Similar to Orange is the New Black, Razor Wire Wilderness is mostly about female inmates, the unique difficulties female inmates endure while incarcerated, and the common choices and traumas that […]
The Shadow List
Author: Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee is a novelist and with this first book of her poetry, I got the sense of reading a novel. There is a flow to the narrative that […]
Don’t Ask My Name
Author: Erika Hecht
During war time, how does a mother explain the impending doom enveloping the community to her ten-year-old daughter? She doesn’t. She bottles it up, keeps everyone quiet and focused. Erika […]
