Stephen Hundley’s Bomb Island explores a 14-year-old boy’s dangerous coming of age
…cute and relatively harmless as a cub but is now terrorizing the local wild horses and other wildlife. The big cat is also getting a little too rough with human…
Darnell Arnoult’s latest poetry collection tackles the cosmos
…and our planet, and ourselves the grinding cancer we cannot face or kill or hold off. The visceral description of life as a “grinding cancer we cannot face or kill”…
Patti Callahan Henry tells a story of two sisters and the power of fairy tales
…Flora sits alone on a red blanket by the river, hugging her teddy bear Berry; this is the last place she is seen alive. Photo: Bud Johnson Patti Callahan Henry’s…
Bradley Sides explores the supernatural in Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood
…Cause the Flood is a slim book at only 142 pages, it features 17 unique stories with intriguing characters and varied voices. Photo: Cindy Shaver Photography Sides explores several structural…
Mary Liza Hartong’s debut queer romance novel captures West Tennessee living
…the trip home from her Ph.D. program at Vanderbilt University, a program she’s thinking of quitting. At first, she goes back to Pennywhistle to be at her daddy’s funeral and…
Gerry Wilson’s debut novel explores the insidious nature of generational lies
…withdrawal into herself and her Bible. She must also manage a loving yet strained relationship with Luther and his developmentally disabled son and maintain her friendships after the betrayal of…
