This novel is about a down-and-outer and his small daughter and his attempt to provide more for her than she has been given either by him or her mother. Trucks, an aging boxer, breaks his daughter, Claudia out of a children’s home in Wisconsin one night in the dead of winter, and they begin hitchhiking to Nevada. Trucks is unable to find work, except for boxing. He is trapped in an activity for which he is no longer suited. Depressed and confused, his mind is no longer reliable. Trucks steals a car he drives east with Claudia, delusional and drifting in and out of consciousness, to try to connect with June, a woman abandoned by her husband. Buy this book through our affiliate Bookshop.org.

“Anyone in the mood to be enchanted by a collection of prose poems that celebrate the quotidian, the commonplace, the ordinary things of this world [ . . . ] then you best pick up a copy of Gerry LaFemina’s book Baby Steps in Doomsday Prepping. [ . . . ]The poems in Gerry Lafemina’s new book enchant the  senses and succeed in stopping time—or at least pausing time—so that we might examine the things of this world with love and  intelligence, so that we might hear them speak to us again. [ . . . ]”—Janet Lowery. Buy this book through our affiliate Bookshop.org.

In his long-anticipated third poetry collection, Frank Paino sheds his singular light on the most obscure corners of history and human nature, assembling a hagiography of unorthodox saints. Paino’s poems teach us to look deeply at the unsettling realities from which we instinctually look away—and they show us the rich rewards of beauty and wisdom we can gain by doing so. Buy this book through our affiliate Bookshop.org.

Dateline: Hades, the Underworld, where things go bad. But things are going even worse up top with red/blue states, Brexit, the Middle East, Hong Kong, and college football. Diogenes, still toting his lantern in search of one honest (wo)man, is appointed by Lord Hades himself to teleport up to lovely Birmingham, Alabama, and mollify mundial matters, accompanied by his Doberman Pluto and Victoria Woodhull, the suffragette and 1872 presidential candidate. The trio is on the case to right the world's confusion. But, Lord H. being a consomméed plot-thickener, they find themselves followed in the transporter by commie-hating troublemaker J. Edgar Hoover . . . .