John Goldbach loves the dark. That is, if the amount of time his characters spend in it is any indication. When they aren’t partying in the woods in the middle of the night, congregating in donut shops and bars with no electricity, or navigating blacked-out suburban streets to get to a babysitting job, they generate [...]

IF A STORY IS A PATH AND A TELLER THE GUIDE, a good storyteller decorates the path with details that keep readers walking, always eager to peer around the corner, to discover what lies ahead. In his novel, The Mountain Clinic, Harold Hoefle demonstrates the power of detail with a touching tale of a young [...]

“EVA’S PLACE IS BUSIEST IN THE EVENINGS – lots of fried cheese and ass-grabbing near midnight.” So begins Rebecca Rosenblum’s fantastic first collection, Once, setting an exceptionally compelling tone that scarcely lets up throughout the book’s sixteen short stories.