Land of Hidden Fires
‘He that lives on hope shall die fasting.’ Review by Grady Harp Kirk Kjeldsen simply has it! Having worked through the hoops of preparation – an MFA from USC and serving as an assistant professor of...
View ArticleImproving Mental Health
‘We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.’ Anaïs Nin Review by Grady Harp New York’s Chief Psychiatrist Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of...
View ArticleStories of Music (Book 2)
‘Music is the universal language … it brings people closer together.’ – Ella Fitzgerald Review by Grady Harp Now and then along comes a book that simply changes everything. STORIES OF MUSIC, of which...
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Of Redemption and Forgiveness By Joey Madia Some writers have a gift that sets them well above the rest. Being a teacher of writing as well as an author, Zeidel deftly augments her natural talent for...
View ArticleA Debt of Survival
A Debt of Survival Every now and then you come across a story that creeps up on you, and before you know it you’re gripped, furiously turning the pages to reach the end. Then the end arrives, and you...
View ArticleThe History of My Body
“How to Manage the Void” I am going to be up front here. I love this book, which is in large part due to its main character, Fleur Robins, daughter of an ultra-Conservative US Senator from Pennsylvania...
View ArticleDear Mary
“The Reader as Mediator” Review by Joey Madia Dear Mary, Rupert M. Loydell’s twentieth collection of poetry, is a series of meditations on the Virgin Mary and the circumstances of her miraculous...
View ArticleThe Tao of Cool
“Not Your Grandma’s Tao” Review by Joey Madia “You’re not cool, you’re chilly. And chilly ain’t never been cool.” [George Carlin, from one of his HBO specials] You best get ready—this isn’t your...
View ArticleToni Wolff & C.G. Jung: A Collaboration
“Jung in Larger Context” Review by Joey Madia In the interest of Disclosure, I served as the editor for this book. That said, and keeping in mind the relationship of editors like Maxwell Perkins with...
View ArticleWay of the Diviner
Review by Joey Madia Half a dozen years ago, a package arrived in the mail from a publisher. As I made the half mile walk back from the mailbox toward my house on a hill on the far side of … Continue...
View ArticleRandom Road
“Is Anything Ever Random?” Review by Joey Madia Arthur Conan Doyle. Agatha Christie. Edgar Allan Poe. Peter Straub. The Mystery genre is certainly daunting. With such a rich heritage built over so many...
View ArticleBlue
“The World within a Nutshell” Review by Joey Madia The true gift of poetry as an art form is its deft use of air. Of space. Of pauses and gaps into which the reader can pour him- or herself. Blue …...
View ArticleMinor Confessions of an Angel Falling Upward
Review by K.P. Ambroziak This is one of the most interesting, intoxicating, and innovative books I’ve read in a long time. It’s a journal, a confession, a celestial manifesto for the Fallen. But it’s...
View ArticleTizita
“Struggles in the Void” Review by Joey Madia Four months ago I was introduced to Fleur Robins, with whom I fell instantly in love. Not romantically, understand, but as a father who wants to protect a...
View ArticleManhattan: An Archaeology
“Forever the Innovator” A review by Joey Madia Innovation is not easy. Being innovative and prolific—well, that approaches the ultra rare. And that is why, year after year, I try to do at least one...
View ArticleImpossible Songs
A review by Joey Madia Several months ago I reviewed Rupert M. Loydell’s twentieth collection of poetry, Dear Mary, which is a series of (far-ranging) meditations on the Virgin Mary and the...
View ArticleGrief for Heart
“Postmodern Vampirism” Vampires have gotten increasingly complex. Sure, there was that blip with the Twilight series, where everything went a little backwards with the complexity and ferocity of the...
View ArticleEmily’s Ride to Courage
A review by Joey Madia Eighteen months ago I reviewed Sarah Maury Swan’s Young Adult (YA) novel Terror’s Identity, which tells the story of family who has to move from their home and assume secret...
View ArticleMurder, Death, Resurrection
“Metaphorical, Intentional Poetics” A review by Joey Madia Eileen Tabios’s newest collection of poetry could be called a sum total of a life’s work (in progress). Created from her MDR poem generator...
View ArticleThe Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness
a review by Joey Madia Disclaimer: I have two entries in this collection. Also, a book that I am co-authoring with my wife about our two-year investigation of a haunted library in North Carolina...
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