We Love Anderson Cooper, R. L. Maizes, Macmillian – In her debut short story collection, We Love Anderson Cooper, R.L. Maizes takes readers into some intriguing scenarios: a young man who decides to come out during his bar mitzvah, a disfigured tattoo artist who discovers healing powers, a therapist, whose new couch has the power to take away sadness, a woman haunted by the spirit of her dead dogs.
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Ghost Stories, Edited by Morton & Klinger, Pegasus Books – It was in the 18th century, after the Civll War and World War I, when a growing interest in communicating with the war dead spawned a new religion: “Spiritualism.” That in turn prompted emergence of ghost stories.
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Courting Mr. Lincoln, Louis Bayard, Algonquin Books – From the prizewinning author of Mr Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a brilliant and melancholic Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him the most . . .
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The Bone Fire, S. D. Sykes, Pegasus Crime – Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, remembers the Black Death all too well. When the deadly plague returns to England in the year 1361, Oswald takes no chances, conveying his family to the refuge offered by his friend Godfrey, Lord Eden.
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Walt Whitman Speaks, Brenda Wineapple Editor, Library of America, – The Library of America marked Walt Whitman’s bicentennial by releasing a condensed version of his final thoughts on “life, writing, spirituality and the promise of America” in a pocketbook entitled, “Walt Whitman Speaks.”
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The Killing of Butterfly Joe, Rhidian Brook, Picador – Rhidian Brook is the best-selling Welsh author and screen writer of The Aftermath, now a major Hollywood movie produced by Ridley Scott and starring Acadamy Award nominee, Keira Knightley.
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The Magnetic Girl, Jessica Handler, Hub City Press – History and Imagination Yield Compelling Tale
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The Shaman of Turtle Valley, Cifford Garstang, Braddock Avenue Books – A painting hangs over the fireplace in Clifford Garstang’s home in rural Virginia of a temple with the Mountain God between two mountain ranges.
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The 2019 Berlin Writing Prize is now open for submissions! Until the closing date of June 30, 2019,
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The Royal Secret, Lucinda Riley, Atria – When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family but also a secret so shocking, so devastating that it could rock the English establishment to its core . . .
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