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READ AN EXCERPT We never go dancing anymore—a common complaint among couples who’d been together a while. She and James hadn’t gone back to the park dances in the...

READ AN EXCERPT We are in a boat but there’s no captain, no crew of any kind. I do know bow and stern and starboard and port and I...

READ AN EXCERPT I was kissing her again, and when I opened my eyes her eyes were wide open. She looked beautiful and frail: the hollows of her cheekbones,...

READ AN EXCERPT “Your profile said you moved down here recently,” he said. “How’s it going so far? I’ve been here for twenty years myself.”  He could feel himself...

READ AN EXCERPT If trees could talk, you said. If they could tell us what they saw. But if you didn’t want to talk about it, why would a...

Nobody loves books more than us. We’re a team of readers with broad interests and strong feelings about the books on our shelves.  From the Shadows by Juan José...

Wool I was late to the game in reading Wool, widely written about as one of the most successful self-published books, but count me as a huge fan. I was...

Backchannel Read carefully each word in Backchannel, for you are warned: “Every word in this poem is a dead body.” Doughnuts and young vegetables, couches and tables, heavy artillery,...