Published Reviews

Midwest Book Review reviews Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, Or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired focuses on how to resolve workplace issues without endangering one's job, and comes from an attorney who provides... Read More »	Dallas Morning News (syndicated column) reviews Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, Or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman Ballman's experience as an employment law attorney shows that employees don't know much about their employment rights. They rely on their employers to know... Read More »
Poetry London reviews White Sheets by beverley bie brahic "Brahic is at her strongest in 'Ancient History'. This contemplation of the ephemeral nature of time avoids all manner of clichés, as she mixes the death of her... Read More »	Stanford Magazine reviews The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler COMING OF AGE IN AN AGE OF INSANITY The Seventh Gate, Richard Zimler, MA '82; Overlook, $26.95. Sophie, retelling her teen years from the vantage point of the 21st... Read More »
The Culture Trip (cultural website) reviews The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler As one of the prominent areas of genre fiction, the thriller simultaneously engages, educates and scares its readers. Those who write within the genre need to be... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson Rowson’s solid eighth police procedural featuring Det. Insp. Andy Horton (after A Killing Coast) opens with the funeral of 47-year-old Daryl Woodley, whose... Read More »
http://www.fictitiousmusings.com reviews Dark Knowledge by Keith Pyeatt Pyeatt has created an intense tale of horror that is one of the most gripping reads I’ve read this year. From the very first page, you are thrust into a story that... Read More »	The Chronicle Review reviews Wayworn Wooden Floors by Mark Lavorato Lavorato is one of a new breed of multi-talented Canadian artists who integrate many gifts effortlessly between genres. He is novelist, photographer, composer and... Read More »
Blogster.com reviews East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres by Andrew Q Lam Andrew Lam’s California is one of cultural collision, a land of fusion cuisine and religious diversity, a land shaped byimmigrants and the spices they bring... Read More »	Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews reviews 98 WOUNDS by Justin Chin “You cannot,” declares the narrator of 98 Wounds, Justin Chin’s stunning, essential new short story collection, “must not, believe anything – not a single word –... Read More »

New York Times Book Review reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Henry Gray, the man behind Gray’s Anatomy (he had the help of a fellow doctor who created the drawings), became Hayes’s obsession. He finds out as much as he can... Read More »	TimeOut (New York) reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine By the time Eleanor Roosevelt rips into Tom Cruise and tells him to just shut up, it’s clear that Koolaids: The Art of War is not exactly a linear novel. In... Read More »
Various reviews Felicity & Barbara Pym by Harrison Solow Praise for Felicity and Barbara Pym "A splendid book! Original, controversial, academic, readable, serious, light-hearted, sensible, charming..." - Hazel Holt,... Read More »	Poetry Quebec reviews Wayworn Wooden Floors by Mark Lavorato I was particularly moved by the poem “Swallow.” Some Christian paintings use swallows to symbolize saved souls. To sailors, a swallow represents... Read More »
Highland Church, Louisville, KY reviews The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God by Dr. Steve McSwain McSwain’s anchor to a big and beautiful God gives him courage to explore the depth and breadth of religious topics that few dare to broach. More than a collection... Read More »	Kirkus Indie reviews Explode: Epic Poetry by E Maria Shelton Speller Speller explores the intersections of race, sex, violence, and art in this experimental poetry collection… Many of these poems use dialogue as their... Read More »
NEW YORK POST BLOG reviews The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times by Steven Robert Travers A New York Post sportswriter once referred to Tom Seaver as “the last of the non-adulterous ballplayers.” A fascinating new book, “The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and... Read More »	Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews reviews 98 WOUNDS by Justin Chin “You cannot,” declares the narrator of 98 Wounds, Justin Chin’s stunning, essential new short story collection, “must not, believe anything – not a single word –... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer This is an absolutely astonishing book. Read More »	The Hindu Literary Review reviews Touch by Meena Kandasamy MEENA KANDASAMY is a feisty new entrant into the duck-pool called Indian English poetry. In Touch, she makes a Rimbaudian attempt at clearing the decks and telling... Read More »