Jazz Moon, in part, is a love story. The beautiful complicated love story of main character Ben Charles, a burgeoning poet from the south who arrives in New York in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance. Read More
Guy Mark Foster in his collection of short stories, The Rest of Us (Tincture), chronicles what it is to be African-American and gay, amid homophobia, religious dogma, and racism. Read More
Eyes of Water & Stone is the story of a love affair between an American and Cuban that is plagued by a history of denial; a forbidden romance set on a prohibited island. Similar to United States and Cuba relations, the affair is complicated by ideals of freedom and economics. Read More
As the aftermath of the civil uprisings that influenced the Arab Spring settles into a precarious political movement seeking democracy,...
Justin Chin stitches together a collection of stories in 98 Wounds that are visceral, unsettling, overwhelming, disturbing, poetic, beautiful, loving, and real. Be prepared to be emotionally and psychologically jarred; to be wounded and healed. Read More
In her debut novel, Smoketown (Blind Eye Books), Tenea D. Johnson magically creates a verdant jungle from what was once...
