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Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation, chronicles Ron Jacobs' journeys from New England to Oregon, Texas to Minnesota and beyond, examining the US as it struggles to remember and redefine itself on its way toward an uncertain future.

"Victor Hippolyte Rand, the son of a Jewish butcher in Nazi-occupied Paris, is a self-proclaimed Master of the Universe. Rand, a stumblebum if ever there was one, runs an Academy of Magic, where student acolytes become initiates in occultism, white magic, and the arcane. Good news spreads fast. The dark forces of the Wehrmacht attempt to recruit Victor. Naturally, he refuses. Victor spends the next few years in a Nazi dungeon, stapled to a one hundred-pound ball and chain. Victor's adventures -- more like skirmishes, cul-de-sacs, Pyrrhic victories -- spin out in a variety of fantastic settings. Read forbidden books with Victor under cover of a Jesuit monastery; practice stage magic and prestidigitation with him in seedy nightclubs; make world tours in search of wisdom, of arcana, rubbing elbows with luminaries such as Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, and Alexandra David-Nâeel. At the end of Rand's day, he acquires a secret doctrine and a unique perspective: when God gives you a gas chamber - inhale! The humor is manic, definitely overthought, overwrought. Victor Rand has previously appeared in the eponymous novel Victor Rand, where he helped mismanage spirit traffic control in the Bardo"--

"On Wednesday, Apr 13, 1968, at 7:30 PM, William Eugene Vanderbilt-Davidoff rose from the dead. Upon discovering Mr. Vanderbilt-Davidoff's open, empty casket, and after a short staff meeting, Randy, Jim, and Lamont decided to replace Will with four bags of roadway salt laid end to end, and close the coffin. Screw it down. It was a closed-casket contract. Who would know? And Dignity Funeral Home & Services could hardly afford the scandal of having lost a client. Et Resurrexit explores Will's further adventures"--

Two plays about Palestine. THE RETURN, was performed in Hebrew in Israel and was performed at Mosaic Theater in Washington DC in June 2017. The second, THE MULBERRY TREE, is unperformed, though is being considered by HaKamri Theater in Tel Aviv. Both plays were originally written in English.

After Rae's ear is shot off by a jittery security guard at the health food store, the insurance settlement allows her to take a year off from teaching. She spends it volunteering at the Los Angeles Zoo. These days, except for her best friend Jennie, Rae has little use for human beings. She loves cats-lots of cats. The refugee she cares for, airlifted from Afghanistan to safety, is not a person but a mountain goat. As the US goes to war and baboons fall deeply, tragically, in love, Rae's involvement with Gorilla Theater--street agitators raising awareness of animal rights--leads inexorably to confrontations over human rights. Especially when Jennie is disappeared. Confessions of a Carnivore is an antic romp through a minefield, a novel about animal behavior, endangered species, endangered democracy, and love.

In a small town in Indiana, on the cusp of the new millennium, local reporter Alice Becotte wants what should be simple: a baby to fill her heart and complete her family. But Alice's husband Rolly, a talented sculptor, harbors ambitions that draw him away from a steady teaching gig at a "backwater" college and unravel the couple's moorings. Principles of Navigation explores Alice and Rolly's journey through loss, infidelity and heartbreak. When each partner is tested and found wanting, they are forced to find a way to move on, without map or compass, guided only by fragile and fleeting glimpses of grace.

Not too far in our dystopian future, Mitchell Fremson finds himself an island of sanity battling a police state gone haywire. Armed only with courage, and principle, and one of the wryest wits to emerge on the literary scene in decades, Fremson leads us on a rollicking and riveting ride at once horrifying and all too plausible. Some may compare Daniel Forbes to Orwell, but the better comparisons are to Kingsley Amis and J. P. Donleavy and Evelyn Waugh - panoramic, biting satirists who recognize a world so mad that only comedy can truly capture its chaos. Derail this Train Wreck is literature's answer to the "War on Terror." - Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, The Biology of Luck, Winner of the Dundee International Book PrizeDaniel Forbes is a "brave citizen." I hope he "can somehow make a difference." -- National Book Award Winner, William T. VollmannA tale of one hounded soul's late growth to manhood in a country grown ugly.

Over the years, stanza by stanza, Jim Ellefson has made himself the Poet Laureate of the Wondrous. Like a street preacher - not the fake kind but the undeniably enlightened - his voice suddenly lays hold of you, and only eventually are you aware that you've stopped in your tracks. And inevitably the luster of his human insights follows you as you walk away. But this collection is something truly special, even for Ellefson. Only the bravest artists work so openly, and so triumphantly, with the obscure, the ineffable. "Such as I am," one of his characters confesses, "I only felt strange," and it's as good a description as any for what will happen to you as you settle in with Foreign Tales of Exemplum. Set in locations across the globe, these poems are out to translate interactions that defy translation, even as the foreign landscapes themselves becomes eerily familiar. Here you'll find the world entire - teeming humanity is all here, every one of us - but not for the peckish reader merely looking to snack. This is an honest-to-God feast, a groaning board. Come very hungry. Plan to stay very late.- Philip Baruth, author of The X President and The Brothers Boswell

"James Connolly is a poet of courage and craft. He tells secrets. He tells the truth. He is the most honest man in the village. With clarity and integrity, he speaks of alcoholism, madness, suicide, abuse, fallen priests, and grandfathers and revolutionaries. Above all, he writes about the rituals of death, for he is intimate with these rituals. James Connolly grew up in a family of undertakers; his narratives about this way of life and death are, in a word, unforgettable, a muted cry of pain and compassion for both the living and the dead. Six Feet Under this isn't. It is, however, poetry. Connolly writes poems jeweled with sparkling images and finely wrought diction. His eye is exact-he seems to miss nothing-and he refuses to look away. He also refuses despair: These are ultimately poems of bruised survival and indelible memory, as in the poem "Last Summer," where a girl who escapes drowning walks the beach calling to her dead companions."-Martin Espada

The Dalai Lama is caught in transit between lives. His soul finally lands in the body of one Gail Rachel Pomerantz. Game plan is Gail Rachel marries, conceives, and her first son inherits the Dalai Lama's soul. Only problem is that at the moment, Gail Rachel Pomerantz, rescued at the point of death from a near fatal car accident, is hanging suspended in a liquid nitrogen cryo-freeze tank.Enter Victor Rand. Rand, a cryo-technician of Tibetan descent, is given a Holy Mission: to thaw and resuscitate Gail Rachel, so that the next incarnation of His Holiness the Dalai, may arrive. Victor, a latter-day Quixote, does this...and falls in love with Gail Rachel. They marry but do not live happily ever after. Rand can't stand her! Follow this madcap steeplechase, this excoriation of marriage, love, and romance, in the unlikely company of Victor Rand, Tristan Tzara, Aleister Crowley, and Dutch Schultz (just to name a few).

A young woman blames her religious upbringing for a friend's suicide and sets out to discover who she is beyond the strict rules of doctrine. Reinventing herself in a new town, she struggles with breaking the taboos of her mother's faith and navigating the lines between friend and lover, child and adult. As she learns new details about events back home, she is forced to reevaluate the childhood she thought she knew.

A roadside museum with a link to the supernatural. A washed up pitching phenom remaking his life as a minor league mascot. An elderly magician concealing a devastating secret. A grown-up high school bully obsessed with her former classmate's glass eye. In Museum of the Americas, Gary Lee Miller presents a remarkable collection of stories that push the boundaries between the real and the fantastic, the universe that is seen and the one that is invisible. There are no easy answers here, no moralistic judgments, just people struggling against stacked odds to bring redemption to their lives.

My Murder and Other Local News is a collection of long form poems written in Chicago by David Schein between 1994 and the year 2000. The poems chronicle dramatic events in the middle age of a "normal" life - the chance witness of a killing, his father's death, the birth of his daughter and Schein's heart attack. Originally written for the page, Schein has performed My Murder and Other Local News as a theater piece in Vermont, Chicago, California and Europe.

The characters in Among Angelic Orders are harassed by the distant and not-so-distant past, by the future, by this world and the next. They live their lives in a state of ambivalence, yearning for something they have lost, or are about to lose, while desperately clinging to what they have. These are stories of mischief, longing, confusion and loss, tempered by the random nature of mercy that rescues us from the certainty of our lives.

When Jason Green was ten, he saw his best friend die in a camping accident. Now 18, Jason re-enters the lives of his friend's parents and their gay next-door neighbor, seeking to apprentice himself to his friend's philosopher father, with mixed results. This is a novel about friendship and betrayal, love and desire, guilt and redemption.

At a glance, Acheron, Vermont contains all the people you expect to meet in an average New England college town. The bumbling, corrupt Sheriff Blivet, and his son Purvis, a junior paranormal investigator. Wilbur Englander, an alcoholic cinephile with a tragic past, and transfer student Denise, his mysterious and bewitching niece. And of course, local real estate magnate Jeremiah Castle, and his much younger, and far more ruthless wife, Jo. They all have secrets, and who better to compile them than Henry Hoffmann, blackmailer, tour guide, and adviser to Mr. Castle. In these capacities, Henry enjoys unlimited power and influence over the citizens of Acheron, until several strange events the week before Halloween put him at the mercy of the very people it is his job to control. The Moment Before an Injury is a novel of amoral ghosts, stolen dogs, creative revenge, petty criminality, vocational ennui, and the fragile politics of absolute power in a small town

Mason Drukman's collection-augmented by the artistry of Lisa Esherick-offers a fresh poetic voice that speaks with intelligence, clarity, humor and heart. His subject matter is life itself: culture, politics, family, death, grief, love and the Red Sox. Welcome to his special kind of poetry.

Barry Goldensohn's latest collection, The Hundred Yard Dash Man: New and Selected Poems, spans five decades of his poetry. The poems are erudite, pained, exultant, meditative or bawdy--and sometimes all of these moods at once. Sometimes the march of character is fictional, sometimes historical, and many times personal. But whether concentrating on painter's brush, photographer's lens, or musicians' instrument, Goldensohn spreads widely over eras and cultures, with a large number of poems following the flesh through loves carnal, consecrated, and domestic: among the most tender are poems dedicated to family and kin.

The sixteen tales in Unfinished Stories of Girls are framed by the quiet yet violent towns, fields, and riverbeds of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The reader is invited inside the lives of people who are trying to figure out the gleaming, marshy world. A girl in the tiny town of Cordova believes she is receiving holy instructions to save men through sex. An Oxford housekeeper serves time in prison for forging employers' signatures. A jewelry clerk and an undercover cop from Cambridge live in a doomed TV marriage. The tidewater community stews in its guilt over a hit-and-run accident that leaves a child dead. In this extraordinarily powerful debut collection, each character's deep love of the region shines. But the landscape continually shifts around them: giving so much, and taking so much away.

Sinfonia Bulgarica is a novel about four women in contemporary Bulgaria: a rich cold-blooded heiress, a masseuse dreaming of peace and quiet that never come, a powerful wife of the most influential man in the country, and a waitress struggling against all odds to win a victory over lies, poverty and humiliation. It is a realistic book of vice and yearning, of truthfulness and schemes, of love and desperation. The heroes are plain-spoken characters, whose action is limited by the contradictions of a society where lowness rules at many levels. The novel draws a picture of life in a country where many people believe that "Money is the most loyal friend of man". Yet the four women have an even more loyal friend: ruthlessness of life.

Rafi's World is a hard-hitting novel that takes an unflinching look at the brutal realities of the Other Israel and its emerging criminal class. Set in the late 1980s as the country undergoes its final transformation into a Western-style consumer society, it tells the story of those left behind in the ruins of the Zionist dream. Rafi Cohen, a smalltime hood, moves through the mean streets of the urban jungle in an Israel rarely before seen. Driven by hatred and alienated from the world around him, he hurtles toward his inevitable end in a gripping story that illuminates the darker corners of Israeli society.

Charles Rafferty works in miniatures. These short short stories explore the small disasters of desire. They investigate the problems that ensue when, inevitably, his characters get what they wish for and what they deserve.

These plays were written with the feeling of jazz, which has been my life long profession and love. Not that the music in them is jazz, but the with a feeling of spontaneity, which is the way they should be performed. With the feel of improvisation.Minimal sets, cubes of different sizes that can be moved by the actors in scene changes. Making much use of creative lighting and sound design.My plays have no heroes - meaning that all the characters are victims, virgins to the lines they speak. The feeling that they have never been said before and will never be said again.Blocking should be simple, we don't want to wear out the floor.I do write about the Underbelly of Humanity. Growing up in New York City has left its forever mark on me. The beautiful, sometimes brilliant, sometimes dangerous, anti-heroes have given me their forgotten gifts.These plays are my payback to them, who unknowingly gave me so much, with their beauty, humor and danger. Most, or all of them are gone, the "house wreckers and mind fuckers" as we called them on the lower east side of New York. I dedicate these plays to them. Stephen Goldberg

"Wherever you look ...there you are."The next media breakthrough has just happened. They call it Remote Viewing and Tonio Wolfe is at the center of the storm. But the research underway at TELPORT's off-the-books lab is even more radical -- opening a window not only to remote places but completely different times. Now unsolved mysteries are colliding with cutting edge science and altered states of consciousness in a world of corporate gangsters, infamous crimes and top-secret experiments. Based on eyewitness accounts, suppressed documents and the lives of world-changers like Nikola Tesla, Annie Besant and Jack the Ripper, Dons of Time is a speculative adventure, a glimpse of an alternative future and a quantum leap to Gilded Age London at the tipping point of invention, revolution and murder.From Greg Guma, author of The People's Republic, Spirits of Desire, Uneasy Empire, and Inquisitions

Throughout thirteen stories, Body of Work chronicles the physical and emotional toll of characters consumed by the all-too-human need for a connection. Their world is achingly common - beauty and regret, obsession and self-doubt, the seductive charm of loneliness. Often fragmented, whimsical, always on the verge of melancholy, the collection is a sepia-toned portrait of nostalgia - each story like an artifact of our impermanence, an embrace of all that we have lost, of all that we might lose and love again someday.

On a Monday evening in December of 1980, Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon outside his apartment building in New York City. The Consequence of Gesture brings the reader along a three-day countdown to mayhem. This book inserts Chapman into the weekend plans of a group of friends sympathetic with his obsession to shatter a cultural icon and determined to perform their own iconoclastic gestures. John Lennon's life is not the only one that hangs in the balance. No one will emerge the same.

The turmoil, terror and betrayal of their escape from Poland at the start of World War II lead us into this tale of hatred and forgiveness between father and son.

ENTANGLEMENTS is Tony Magistrale's third collection of poetry. The book contains poetry written in both Europe and the United States. Many of the poems reflect a certain awareness of Vermont as seasonal place and essence. Additionally, some of the poems bear black and white illustrations created by Michael Strauss, well-known Vermont landscape painter.

These animals speak directly to us, the human readers, stir us up with the denunciation of our destruction of the environment, move us with their resemblance to us and humble us with their superior wisdom and self-mockery.