The Angle is about a man who does not exist. Yet while dealing with his anonymity, finds himself in a love story on its way to an awakening through a path of literature. The Angle itself happens to be an affliction inside the mind of our anti-hero, rendering, or rather exuding its three conditions that plague him. His mission, aided by his brother, poetic smoke, messages in the mail, and a cast of literary characters rounds out his plight. Through his mute assistant teana, he discovers enl...

During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend's father knows exactly what she went ...

In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater, whe...

"The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments."—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book WorldEchoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive début no...

Celebrated for her indelible, Oscar-caliber performances in some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and 1990s, Debra Winger, in Undiscovered, her first book, demonstrates that her creative range extends from screen to page. Here is an intimate glimpse of an artist marvelously wide-ranging in her gifts.In fact, as this beguiling book reveals, Winger is that rare star who dared to resist the all-consuming industry that is Hollywood becoming her entire ...

"an actor without an audience" is a collection of poems & pictures by Austin Basis- a working actor who questions his very existence. Through both poetry & prose, his constant search for answers about life, love & self find their way onto the page with a healthy mixture of honesty, edginess, self-reflection, heart, and humor... It takes you on the emotional journey of an artist, a lover, and an everyman. Austin finds poetry the freest of all the written forms & writes with an intentional d...

As a child my favourite play time was to imagine. My imagination took me places no one else knew about, places that were fairy tales and places I actually created. Unless I was just imaging this, but were always places of fun. As a woman at 45 I still thrive on my imagination to work the same way. As a writer I try and share with my reader what it is I have to offer, not what I have to sell. Unnecessarypoetry I hope touches your imagination in a way maybe it has not been before. After all,...

Our heroine, Angela weaves a tale of tragedy and of triumph by piecing together her fragmented memories. We are taken on a journey that spans two generations, beginning with the violent life of her father and ending with the seedlings of a new generation. All is bared as the reader is brought into this dark world where tragedy knows no bounds, where rape is swept under the rug and lives are torn apart by the mere touch of a hand.It is a tale of love and deception and the amazing bo...

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. "I am interested in exploring the 'different' hours," he says, "not only of one's life, but also of the larger historical and philosophical life beyond the personal...

What does it mean to be a woman and an artist?  We are friends, lovers, mothers and children; but above all we are ourselves.  “I Am Not These Things” gives insight into the world from a poet’s perspective through humour and clever turn-of-phrase, and for the most part, affection.

The journey into darkness continues in this, the second in the DARK VISIONS series and follow-up to the Bram Stoker Award® Nominated DARK VISIONS ONE.DARK VISIONS: A COLLECTION OF MODERN HORROR - Volume Two takes you far deeper into the twisted psyche of man with 14 psychological tales of creeping dread that explore the evil the lives inside all of mankind. The stories in DARK VISIONS TWO offer an even darker, more insidious look into the concepts of life, death and how choices we ...

"Brimming with intolerable rapture, I almost killed myself many, many times. I wasn’t trying to; my love for life just kept spilling me over boundaries into places from which some people don’t come back. Hardly restricted by social convention, I hurt myself by being so rambunctious and romantic."How much of our past does our face betray? What future fortune can you read in the lines and skin? What trace is left by other lips and fingers and fists? In this beautiful...