Call it a literary crime novel, call it historical fiction, call it lyric and engaging, Frog Music is in a category all its own. Read More
Winterson doesn’t shy away from displaying humanity’s darkest behaviors: the things we do for love and power; the things we do to satisfy hunger and greed. Read More
She Rises is an intriguing well-written debut that will please historical fiction fans, especially those interested in what constructs of gender have looked like in the past. Read More
If books have sensibilities, and I believe they do, Georgeann Packard’s Paint the Bird has an artist’s—it is dark, moody,...
The Art of Joy is a novel of ideas. It’s concerned with birth, life, and death, the education of women, politics, social and cultural history, sexuality, free love, psychoanalysis, familial bonds, childrearing, and more. Read More
The natural world looms large in Jean Ryan’s meditative short-story collection, Survival Skills (Ashland Creek Press). These thirteen stories inhabit...
"If you’re writing a big sprawling book about America, and racism doesn’t come up at all, well, I would wonder about that."
Author Chavisa Woods was kind enough to talk to Lambda Literary Review about her new book, The Albino Album, her responsibilities as a writer, and what’s next in her literary career. Read More
There’s a lot of fantasy in Mermaid in Chelsea Creek. After all, one of the characters is a foul-mouthed mermaid. There are also talking pigeons and witches. This fantasy world rests just on top of the real world, and Tea never loses sight of how the two interact. Read More
The Albino Album is, at its core, a novel of the human condition. It’s a political novel. It’s a love story and a coming-of-age story. It’s the story of a girl who rides an albino horse and has no patience for the niceties of cultural conditioning. Suffice to say, it’s multifaceted, in the best possible way. Read More
Traversing from Ireland to India to Venice, Makara (Handtype Press) manages to be both ethereal and incredibly earthly at the same time. It is a coming-of-age story unlike any other. Read More
