Actor Mickey Greene's life spirals out of control after he lands in rehab, loses his girlfriend, and is forced to take a job as a security guard in an amusement park.
A book as beautiful and infused with longing as the landscape it depicts. Marcel Jolley is a master of desire, and his protagonists, caught between lives they can hardly tolerate and futures they can
Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finn's fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories has an ethnicity. The characters try to go on with their
"In the first line of The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, his long-awaited and stunning debut collection, Brent Goodman announces: "There is no afterlife." But there is: in poem after poem "the eye plays
Tandon's keen eye and idiosyneratic ear---he picks up shard of language and refashions them, making new wholes from fragments of everyday speech---combine to create a poetry with its own quiet urgency
