The Contest
The 2010 Literary Awards Program is now open for submissions! Find out more right here.
The Books
Our first title, released in 2006, is cult sensation Ray Robertson’s Moody Food, the critically acclaimed rock’n'roll-suffused modern tragedy. Moody Food is a fictionalized saga of music, love and the power of revolution inspired by the life of the legendary singer-songwriter Gram Parsons. In 2007, we released The Fires, by Alan Cheuse. In 2008, we released The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex & Other True Stories, a creative nonfiction collection from Pagan Kennedy. In 2009, our release of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Richard Currey’s international bestseller, Fatal Light, marks the culmination of nearly a decade of work. More info.
The Latest From the Journal
The Girl With Glass Feet: A Review
Thoughtful, dreamlike, meandering–these were my expectations of Ali Shaw’s debut novel, The Girl with Glass Feet. For the first chapter or so, the novel held up. Lines like “It was a darkening afternoon whose final shafts of light passed between trees, swung across the earth like searchlights,” drew me into St. Hauda’s Land, setting up yet more expectations. Then it all fell flat.
Candor: A Review
If I were pitching Pam Bachorz’ Candor at an editorial meeting, I’d call it “dystopian contemporary YA meets The Stepford Wives with a dash of Wisteria Lane from a male perspective”.
Next Year in Paradise
Ginnie and Roger were already planning next year’s trip, when they’d just arrived for this year’s annual family vacation, one of the lesser Caribbean islands with a Catholic-sounding name. They preferred to just call it Paradise, as in Next year in Paradise we’ll rent a car for the far beach, the one with the goats. When their daughter Maxine was little, Roger would hoist her on his shoulders to hang their bag of peanut butter sandwiches from a high branch so the mangy gray goats couldn’t nuzzle for a bite. By next year, Maxine’s baby would be old enough to make goat sounds, if Ginnie sang “Old MacDonald’s Farm” like she used to with Maxine.