Lost Tales Publishing chose the charming Artie & the Princess as their first book, partly…
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Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow…
The Arabian Nights meets the American South in Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel, The Cailiffs…
Catherine Schaff-Stump runs Kirkwood Community College’s English Language Acquisition program, which gives her a special…
Reefka Schneider’s compassionate drawings, including Mass for the Disappeared, above, accompany poems by her husband,…
Author Michael Zachary Jack mourns the flight of young rural Iowans, especially young rural women,…
Richard Powers Back in the early 1990s, I took a class entitled “The American novel…
Tony and Sharon Kanauskus are closing 21st Century Bookstore after over 26 years. An interesting…
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Adept word-stringer Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is currently Poet Laureate to the state of Kansas.…
Dahlia Lithwick is collaborating with Facebook and Twitter fans on her new novel. I haven’t…
Each fall, I eagerly await the appearance of two short story collections published by the…
A fair number of thrillers cross my desk, tempting me with clichéd promises that my…
Dennis Ashby began Well Read Books as a “hobby business in semi-retirement” back in 1998.…
Editor’s note: Well-read books closed in 2015. Thin sheets of paper, the hue of an…
Rick Moody (photo Thatcher Keats) Rick Moody is one of the most celebrated American writers…