Jeffrey C. Alfier/Poetry

Farm Near a Bend in River Tummel   There was a shed here once. If you look close, you can see grass ghosting its outline.   Any tool the day required could be found here. Tack, as well: bits, bridles, a harness or two.   Never mind weather; some days I...
Writers on Writing

Writers on Writing

Photo by Geralt (Pixabay) Slivers of Speculation: AAA Barry Lopez and Trauma Theory By Joe Amato & Kass Fleisher A conjecture and spoiler alert all at once: there are cognitive reasons why artifice intrudes so sparingly upon trauma writing.   * First though:...

Saramanda Swigart/Fiction

PARTING SHOT by Saramanda Swigart   Carrie fled to her father’s study to escape the archaeologists. By then, most of the artworks in the house had been sold, but the study still had a coveted collection of Near Eastern art. Carrie, twenty years old, lonely and...
Bookstores of New York

Bookstores of New York

RICKY OWENS PHOTO The author and his wife at the book launch of his novel Cold Earth Wanderers at The Corner Bookstore, November 2014.  * * * * * * Where Have All the Bookstores Gone? * * * New York City’s Independent Booksellers — * * * Endangered Species or Phoenix...
Savage Mountain/John Smelcer

Savage Mountain/John Smelcer

Author John Smelcer at the summit of Mt. Sanford, Alaska. Photo taken by his brother.     Savage Mountain: An Excerpt John Smelcer’s 50th book just came out this summer. “Savage Mountain”  is a mountaineering novel set in 1980. It’s the story of...