Title: A Place of Timeless Harmony Author: Curt Eriksen Genre: Literary Fiction A Place of Timeless Harmony is about a couple, Richard and Sofie, who go on a romantic vacation to the African safari. But they are carrying secrets that are weighing heavily on their hearts, and the two realize that no matter how much they hide from each… Read More A Place of Timeless Harmony – Editorial Review
Title: Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones Author: P.A. Swanborough Genre: Literary Fiction Deep in South Wales, a rural community shuffles into the Ty Merched farmhouse to mark the one-hundredth birthday of matriarch, Lizzie Coombes. Lizzie has kept her distance from the villagers for decades.
Title: Cenotaphs Author: Rich Marcello Genre: Literary Fiction Ben Sanna, a lonely 75-year-old man, has been living in Hasman, Vermont since his divorce decades ago. He spends his days chopping wood, hiking with his senior dog, Zeke, and sharing a burger with his pals. Ben is known in town as an unofficial therapist.… Read More Cenotaphs – Editorial Review
Title: Thursday’s Child Author: Joseph Wurtenbaugh Genre: Literary Fiction This is an epic story, seasoned with mystery and romance, of how Adele Elizabeth Jansen’s life transforms slowly but irrevocably after meeting author, poet, polymath, and unrecognized genius, Thomas Newcombe.
Title: The Woman in Green Author: Larry Lockridge Genre: Literary Fiction The Woman in Green is the final installment in Lockridge’s Enigma Quartet series. The four novels can be read independently, but there are connections, similarities, and related themes.
Title: The Dog in the Hollow Author: Will Lowrey Genre: Literary Fiction Clarence Crandall lives a solitary life of lonely contemplation in a small cabin buried in the depths of the forest. When he finds a gravely injured dog named Goose outside his door, the pair forge an instinctive bond.
Title: A Dry Heat: Collected Stories Author: Gregory D. Williams Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories A Dry Heat is a compilation of nine short stories separated into three parts that roughly correspond to early adolescence, young adulthood, and middle/late- age.
Title: Intimate Fractures: The Aftermath of a Rape Author: Wagih Abu-Rish Genre: Literary fiction In Intimate Fractures: The Aftermath of a Rape by Wagih Abu-Rish, Mustafa, a Palestinian student, has just started to adjust to his life at Duke University and is newly dating a spirited girl named Zeina.
Recently, I mentioned to an author that writing can sometimes seem a trivial and frivolous occupation. She replied that she never thought of it that way. It made me wonder if insecurity about writing is more of a male problem than a female one. Rather like male film actors who indulge in ‘manly’ excesses… Read More Raking the Dust – Book Review
Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow is one of many intertwined and mutually reinforcing themes in Mark Gordon’s complex and absorbing novel. The Shadow comprises the negative, primitive and morally reprehensible emotions and impulses inaccessible to the conscious mind: among them, lust, greed, envy, rage and the pursuit of power. It is at its… Read More The Snail’s Castle – Book Review
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