Anya Achtenberg’s The Stories of Devil-Girl (Modern History Press, 2008) is one of the books that cannot be confidently placed in a single category/genre. We may look at it as…
Category: Fiction
The Last Cowgirl
Dickie Sinfield, the 52-year old Salk Lake City journalist, ignored the call of her ‘cowgirl instincts’ for years in order to mix up in the more delicate and nifty urban…
Succession
Award-winning author Herbert Lobsenz has returned to the publishing world with his latest novel Succession (Zumaya Publications, 2008), the story of an aspiring writer, Jake Garrison, who finds himself in…
The Bunko Babes
There are three Fs in this heart-warming debut novel from Leah Starr Baker that make the book rich with all the fullness of life: Friendship, Family, and Faith. This trinity…
Last Call
By way of common experience, we don’t usually tend to stay motionless in a seat or else we may feel numb. Discomfort causes motion and only when we start shifting…
Sleep Before Evening
In her debut novel Sleep Before Evening (Bewrite Books, 2007), Magdalena Ball probes into the psychic maze of teenage delinquency. The book shows the angst of the heroine Marianne Cotton,…
Envy of the Gods: If The Reward Were Right
Envy of the Gods (Bridgeway Books, 2006) is the first in Andrea Savitch’s trilogy of fiction. Set in the medieval world of Raalek, the tale gives an account of power-hungry…
Double Blank
Drugs, lies, murders, and hunt for the culprit at the root-a typical crime story everyone has been watching for decades. This time Yasmina Khadra sets the scene in Algeria with…
Dakhmeh
Naveed Nori is an author’s pseudonym now getting to be known for his novel Dakhmeh (Toby Press, 2003). Noori’s work is disturbing, antirevolutionary, and almost deliriously scornful toward Islamic totalitarianism…
Chains Around the Grass
Naomi Ragen is an international bestseller novelist, a writer of and about the core of human life. Chains Around the Grass (The Toby Press, 2003) is the book Ms. Ragen…
Three 1-Act Plays
The second volume of Tom Anselmo plays Three 1-Act Plays (Red Brindle Press, 2006) is not a series like the first one Gail’s Place by virtue of the same protagonist…
Gail’s Place: A Trilogy of Plays in Two Acts
Thomas Hardy didactically preserved his Tess, a young woman who attempted to be honest in her intimate relationship by revealing her secret, and thus ended at the gallows. Tom Anselmo…