Characters in this debut collection of stories ponder ‘career mortality’ and existential despair — and dispatches from the trenches of adolescent incarceration. ‘American Wasteland’ By Alexander Shalom Joseph Owl Canyon Press (2021, 262 pp.) A slow, gnawing dread is...
“Resurrecting Bunny: A Wild Child’s Pilgrimage’ By Georgann Low (2021, 92 pp.) “I wait for another spring,” writes this seasoned artist, jazz musician and Colorado native. “But now is a time for wondering, being soft in my breath and asking for grace.” Transformation...
“The Cape Doctor” By E.J. Levy Little, Brown (2021, 337 pp.) “What makes a man, a life? How much is name and parentage, education or the accident of birth? How much is choice? How much of our lives’ making is in our hands and how much is forged by fate — the...
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