Coming September 2011 from Texas Christian University Press

By C.W. Smith

TCU Press 268 pg

978-0-87565-437-9

Submitted by Taylor Made Press

Rating: 4

You know when some horrible accident occurs and you can't look away? Something that commands your reluctant…

re-demp-tion [re demp shuh`n] noun 

1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.…

Submitted by TCU Press

Rating: 4.5

Home Truths is Gerald Duff's memoir of a boyhood spent on the Gulf Coast and deep in the piney woods of East Texas. I am a native Texan and I…

By Dave Kuhne

Ink Brush Press pgs162

978-0-9835968-1-3

Submitted by the author

Rating: 3.5

The Road to Roma is a slim collection of short stories by Dave Kuhne, Associate Director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University. Mr. Kuhne is also the editor of descant,…

By Marc Schuster

The Permanent Press, 176 pgs

978-1-57962-263-3

Submitted by The Permanent Press

Rating: 3.5

The Grievers by Marc Schuster is a short novel about how a group of friends responds to the suicide of one of their own. And it's much funnier than it sounds. Our protagonist is Charley Schwartz, one…

By Steve Sherwood 

Texas Review Press, 214 pgs

1-881515-68-0

Submitted by TCU Press

Rating: 3.75

Hardwater has so much going on it can be difficult to keep track. In this case, that's not a bad thing. Peter Hoback is a newspaper editor in Hardwater, Wyoming, a small…

Okay, maybe not me (that sounds needy), but I do have something for you to listen to. http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/02/listen-to-me.html

Book and App Review

Last March, Chronicle Books published an amazing book titled Press Here  by Hervé Tullet. The book…