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Desperate to find respite from her father's verbal abuse, his various affairs, and her step-mother's psychological torment, Gina spent hours doing Jane Fonda's workouts, smoked cigarettes instead of eating food, and became obsessed with her thinness... with the notion of fading away. She found solace in restlessness-drinking hallucinogenic mushroom tea and inhaling crushed pills and powders-perching herself on the periphery of danger again and...

Gould's memoir is about lost love, evaporating marriage, Italian sandals, bad knees, acrobatic birds, secrecy, oddly placed piercings...but most of all, it's about how it's possible to rise and soar, even after you've struck the ground.

The interrelated short prose pieces in Ben Berman's Then Again explore a life outside of chronological order, bounce back and forth between foreign adventures and domestic routines. One moment we're in a Mommy and Me yoga class, the next we're gutting a goat in rural Zimbabwe. As much a meditation on language as a coming to terms with middle age, these stories navigate the distance between words and worlds. And yet whether getting chased by wi...

It is said that truth is often stranger than fiction. But can you translate this into prose that will hold a reader's attention? To deliver a 'good read' the writer must combine the personal and the universal, the intellectual with the emotional, the macro with the micro, and the biographical with the historical.But how? In Writing Beyond the Self, Jenean explains that every writer has at least one creative nonfiction story hiding inside him o...

Spanning 1911 to 1961, Tazia and Gemma is told from the perspective of an unwed mother, whose tale moves forward in time, and her daughter, whose search for her father moves backward. Tazia, a pregnant seventeen-year-old Italian immigrant and survivor of the Triangle Waist Company fire, flees New York, leaving her married lover to think she miscarried the baby he urged her to abort. To support herself and her daughter Gemma, Tazia takes low-wa...

Set in 1917-1925, On the Shore follows the upheaval in an immigrant Jewish family when a son lies about his name and age to fight in WWI. Without telling his family, 16-year-old Shmuel Levinson (a.k.a. Sam Lord) strives to prove his manhood and escape his father's pressure that he become a rabbi by enlisting in the Navy. His smart but rebellious younger sister, Dev, mourns his disappearance, while chafing against her father's expectation that ...

Provoke conversation and bring some style and charm to your social media presence with Bauke Kamstra's words. As in Volumes 1 and 2, the poems comprising Volume 3 are as succinct as they are spellbinding. With a sensuality that suggests a new Song of Songs, and themes exploring the relationship between human and water.

Fifteen-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago is a kid on the cusp of failure during the brutal blizzard winter of 1978-79, the end of a hard luck, hard rock era sunk in the cynical aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Provoke conversation and bring some style and charm to your social media presence with Bauke Kamstra's words. They focus on the human body: love, lust, and the physicality between lover and lover or mother and child. Words that break conventional boundaries ... but are still wholly human.

Provoke conversation and bring some style and charm to your social media presence with Bauke Kamstra's words. They focus on the human body: skin, touch, loss, age, and the passing of time. Words that break conventional boundaries ... but are still wholly human.