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THUNK! It's the sweet sound an ad-packed magazine makes when it's dropped on a table. A boozy, breezy free fall through the magazine industry's fading days of glory....Take 'Mad Men, ' add 40 years, and you'd get these Mag Men...a story of betrayal and friendship, love and survival in the crazy, gritty, glamorous world of magazine advertisin

Mind Control Empire paints a stark picture of state surveillance and coercion methodologies in A post-Collapse America-the internal conflict of one man walking the line between the protection of the society and the good of the individual.

Heather Siegel was six years old when her mother disappeared, sending her father into a tailspin that took Heather and her siblings down with him--from a comfortable suburban home to a barely habitable basement apartment, a dark world they soon found themselves fighting to return to from the exile of foster care, then fighting even harder to escape. Forty years later, Heather Siegel tells the remarkable story of how she and her siblings, Jaz and Greg, banded together to find out what happened to their mother and fight their way Out from the Underworld with nothing but their wits, determination, unbreakable bonds and gifts for humor and compassion to sustain them. A wrenching, inspiring story filled with heartbreak, hope and love, Out from the Underworld will move you to laughter and tears. Praise for OUT FROM THE UNDERWORLD "A graduate summa cum laude of the school of hard knocks, Heather Siegel has written this dark, riveting memoir with refreshing if mordant humor, rueful tenderness and compassion. She is a stunningly gifted storyteller." -- Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay "Heather Siegel has taken the raw material of an unusually deranged childhood and fashioned a piece of writing so smart, funny and insightful that, as we read, we see the narrator growing from a street-smart little cynic into a remarkably understanding woman. More one cannot ask of any memoirist." -- Vivian Gornick, author of The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative "Out from the Underworld documents not only Heather Siegel's survival of a brokenchildhood, but also how Siegel forged a life beyond any label of 'victim' or 'damaged.' It serves as a beacon guiding pathways of possibility for others to follow." -- Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review "Heather Siegel's memoir is heartbreaking, but also filled with the kind of dark humor that will have any reader turning pages, eager to keep up with her masterful storytelling. It examines some of life's greatest tragedies with a redemptive insight that is inspiring and illuminating." -- Julia Fierro, author of Cutting Teeth "Heather Siegel has written a funny, painfully honest and ultimately inspiring coming-of-age memoir. Her story of escaping a dysfunctional family is a great read." -- Alan Rinzler, Consulting Editor

Liz Weber's life was far from dull. Whether serving drinks to a gaggle of quirky regulars at a bar or walking around in her skivvies for extra cash, she fought hard to remain a self- proclaimed "professional free spirit" and aspiring writer, even if it meant enduring a lush for a manager or a cranky, Israeli-folk-music-loving boss. None of it really mattered as long as she had Rufus, her oddly proportioned dog who taught her about unconditional love in an untraditional way, at her side. When Rufus dies, Liz is forced to let go of the one constant in her life and move forward without him. Alone and brokenhearted, her life spirals downward while her friends and family struggle to understand how to help her through. The journey to right herself leads her to an unexpected encounter where the long unheard voice of the woman inside makes its debut. And it is on water skis at an adult sleepaway camp that Liz learns there are important things in life that Rufus' love had caused her to avoid. Embracing her power and strength and finally letting go of him is the best way to go on. Memory Card Full is a frank, funny, and deeply moving memoir, a book for anyone who has loved and lost and found the space in that loss to become the person they were meant to be. Liz Weber is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn whose work has appeared on national websites such as Narrative.ly, Apartmenttherapy. com and Planetwaves.net. She's been a regular contributor for lifestyle website Citypath.com and Boredandthirstynyc.com and has doled out dating advice to the urban female set on the popular website Thefatwhiteguy.com. Her short story about working in a male strip club for women was featured in the 2009 Staten Island Arts Festival.

The Colony is an account of that special, pivotal time in a person's life when innocence is lost and another road taken. John Bowers joins an oddball group of young men trying to become writers in Marshall, Illinois, under the guidance of Lowney T. Handy, the only female on the premises. She is a messianic married woman who mentored and supported a young James Jones while he wrote From Here to Eternity and who still holds him under her spell. Bowers leaves the love of his life in Tennessee, the unforgettable Juanita, and arrives at the Colony. He gets a barracks-like room, a cot and a desk on which he puts his Underwood Noiseless typewriter. He gets hot Jell-O and large-curd cottage cheese, but no newspapers or radio. (All lies!) Because he is told that women and marriage ruin a writer's life, he is drawn to sporting houses in Terre Haute. He takes a hallucinatory cross-country trip, partly by motorcycle, to visit Jones and Mrs. Handy in winter quarters in Tucson, where he meets a disheveled Montgomery Clift, who's about to star in From Here to Eternity. Back in Marshall, Norman Mailer comes to call. Memorable characters abound, and there are surprises galore. Bowers gets attacked-his head is played like a xylophone against a radiator by a mad fellow colonist-and Juanita calls and wants to fly up. He writes a novel called The Thirst of Youth that is never published, and he learns that all the freedom he has dreamed of may not compare with all he has lost. John Bowers was born, raised and educated in Tennessee. He is married and divides his time between New York City and a cabin in the Catskills. ........ "[The Colony] is an excellent book, a durable book, that tells much more than it says." - The New Yorker "An adventure in the rich American vein that runs from Mark Twain to Charles Portis." - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "A rich, powerful, funny, and ultimately heart-breaking memoir." - The New York Times Sunday Book Review

SWEET SURVIVAL I grew up eating chocolate mousse with a silver teaspoon. So begins the title essay from this delightful compilation two parts memoir, one part cookbook from Laura Zinn Fromm. An award-winning journalist and self-described sugar addict, Fromm is funny and frank in this moving account of trying to find comfort in a family fraught with mental illness. Fromm worked for years as a reporter at Business Week, living in Manhattan and barely cooking at all. Craving a kitchen that could accommodate more than one, she returned, with her husband and two young sons, to live in the idyllic New Jersey town where she grew up. There, Fromm set about learning to cook and cope as she navigated 9/11, her father s illness and her decision to create a grown up life in her childhood town. These essays are warm and generous, as are her recipes and cooking advice. You ll find everything in here, from baking for a Nobel Prize winner to courting a kidnapper; mastering a mousse souffle to roasting a chicken in milk. Fromm writes about life with tenderness and tenacity, and about food with a devotion and sensuality that will inspire even the most kitchen-phobic among us to bolt for our saute pans. If food is love, Fromm depicts cooking as even lovelier. Laura Zinn Fromm has an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at New York Writers Workshop, Columbia University and Montclair State University. A former editor at Business Week, she is the winner of the Clarion Award and the Newspaper Guild s Page One Award for Labor Reporting. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Business Week, Ducts.org and elsewhere. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Sweet Survival is one of those books, like Laurie Colwin s Home Cooking, destined to make the rounds years after publication, passed down from woman to woman, recommended by friends and Wednesday night book clubs. The stories, about relationships and cooking, are the real stuff of life. It s like sitting in your kitchen with your best friend, talking about life, the loves, births, deaths, longings, failures and joys and the recipes that go with them. Beautiful, delicious fare. Julie Tilsner, author of 29 and Counting: A Chick s Guide to Turning 30

Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, Humor and Art from the first 12 years of Ducts.org. Ducts.org, one of the first literary magazines on the web, was founded in 1999 and has since grown into a dependable and ambitious resource for readers looking for engaging and thought-provoking essays, memoirs, fiction, poetry, art and humor. In this, our second collection of some of our best, you will spend time with a dangerous SS man in the Warsaw Ghetto, enjoy sensuous cooking, experience a kiss that lasts forever, discover witticisms lost to time and meet The Man Who Ate His Book.

1969. In advertising, there are mad men. On radio, there are funny men. Tune In .In 1960s New York, radio is king, and Elkin and Fox are the hottest morning team in town. Jerry Elkin is the funny half a genius at dialects and double-talk, zingers and zany characters. Sinatra flies him to Vegas on his private plane, and Rocky Graziano drinks with him (and punches him). But Jerry s life? That s no laughing matter. Secretly, he seethes at his straight-man partner, Ted Fox, a handsome rake who d rather shtup a secretary in the studio than entertain TV offers, a guy who makes Jerry feel less a star and more a schmuck. Turn On .And that s before Jerry ever hears the name Sari Rosenbloom. The stunning eighteen-year-old is a mystical American dream, irresistible to men and her most obsessed admirer is Jake, Jerry s son. With the 1960s world spinning out of control, Jake is fighting for a girl who can have anyone she wants from the world-famous artist who has sketched her nude to bon vivant Ted Fox, who s singing her name on air. Drop Out .And that s before Jerry gets a gander at Sari s father. Max Rosenbloom works in salvage in other words, he burns down factories, sells poisoned pajamas to Chinese children and sometimes buries his enemies in cement. If Jake doesn t stop going after his princess daughter, Max might make Jerry s son, Jerry s career and Jerry s whole post-war world disappear right off the dial . Schmuck. A raucous, wild novel of love, war, rioting and radio that s as funny as a heart attack and as serious as hell. Praise for Schmuck A madcap morning-radio team hanging with Sinatra, intimate father-and-son conversations at the Friars Club, a mystery woman swiveling everyone s head.... Ross Klavan was raised on this canvas. No wonder I felt in such expert hands. David Pollock, author of Bob and Ray, Keener than Most Persons Klavan s light touch and sharply drawn characters echo Carl Hiaasen, and are also very much his own. Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones I laughed out loud and also wept reading this fast-paced novel of a Jewish Holden Caulfield. W. M. Bernstein, author of The Realization of Concepts Delightful reading, but be forewarned. There is often seriousness beneath a tale whose Yiddish title means roughly a dope. It s Jewish New York and will make you laugh one minute, wince another, but will let you find yourself in it, no matter who you think you are. John Bowers, author of The Colony About the Author Ross Klavan s work spans film, television, radio, print and live performance. His original screenplay for the film Tigerland was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, he recently finished an adaption of John Bowers The Colony, and he has written scripts for Miramax, Paramount and TNT, among others. The conversation about writing he moderated with Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer was televised and published as Like Shaking Hands with God, and his short stories have appeared in magazines and been produced by the BBC. An earlier novel, Trax, was published under a pseudonym. His play How I Met My (Black) Wife (Again), co-written with Ray Iannicelli, has been produced in New York City, and he has performed his work in numerous theaters and clubs. He has acted and done voice work in TV and radio commercials and has lent his voice to feature films including Casino, You Can Count On Me and Revolutionary Road and the new Amazon web series Alpha House, written by Gary Trudeau. He has worked as a newspaper and radio journalist in London and New York City. He lives in New York City with his wife, the painter, Mary Jones. "

The Flax women reunite in their old hometown in this long-awaited sequel to Mermaids, the novel that became the cult-classic movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci. Charlotte Flax is all grown up now, with a grown son of her own. But her heart still belongs to the man she fell in love with at age 14 when Charlotte, her sister and her mother lived in a house next to a convent in Grove, Massachusetts. They moved on after a year- Mrs. Flax never stayed anywhere long. But it was Charlotte's favorite house, so when she hears it's for rent, she moves back and decides to bring the family together for Mrs. Flax's birthday. There are complications and suprises, of course. This is the Flax family, after all. For all three women, the gathering is a reunion they'll never forget. Praise for Starfish "For all the fans of Mermaids and its fabulous film adaptation, Starfish is an enchanting sequel. Starring a cast of quirky originals, its plot twists will make you laugh-after you wipe away tears. Patty Dann's writing has matured with sparkle and radiance." -Sally Koslow, author of The Late, Lamented Molly Marx and The Widow Waltz About the Author Patty Dann is the author of the novels Mermaids and Sweet & Crazy and the memoirs Baby Boat and The Goldfish Went On Vacation. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Linda Wolfe's MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is a wrenching, highly personal and deeply moving story of a family in crisis and a compelling testament to the powerful and universal bonds of the mother/daughter relationship. By turns a medical mystery and a family drama, Wolfe's book chronicles her thirty-eight-year-old daughter's out-of-the-blue, near-fatal stroke, and the fascinating process of physical and mental rehabilitation that allowed her daughter to make an astonishing recovery. With the same eye for detail and psychological astuteness that marked her many cover stories for New York Magazine, Wolfe makes vivid every agonizing moment, from the disastrous mistakes of some doctors and the miraculous intercessions of others, to the terrors that haunt the children of an illness-stricken parent, to the painful, inevitable - and sometimes funny - disputes that arise when a mother-in-law and son-in-law must share the same roof, and the innumerable struggles and difficult choices that face the young stroke survivor. Beautifully written and observed, MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is an inspiring account of how a mother learns to take life's blows as they come, to master the unfamiliar language of illness and, ultimately, to let her daughter be her guide as, together, they march through an altogether new terrain. The Author: Linda Wolfe, a longtime contributing editor at New York magazine, is an award-winning journalist and novelist. Among her many books are the novel "Private Practices," the nonfiction books "Wasted: The Preppie Murder" and "The Murder of Dr. Chapman," and the culinary classic "The Literary Gourmet." Learn more at LindaWolfe.com. Linda Wolfe s harrowing and moving account of her family s crisis is an intensely personal and universal testament to the mother/daughter bond. Hilma Wolitzer, author of "An Available Man" Linda Wolfe is a superb journalist and a fine novelist and critic, but she has surpassed herself with this eloquent and gripping memoir about her daughter s near brush with death. A must read I could not put it down. Patricia Bosworth, author of "Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story" Even during the scariest, most heart-stopping passages, it s a pleasure to read Linda Wolfe s triumphant story of a precious daughter s stroke and recovery. Alix Kates Shulman, author of "To Love What Is" Engrossing. Moving. Powerful. This account of a daughter s debilitating stroke and arduous recovery comes from a place of intense fear and helplessness, and by looking as much inward as outward, Wolfe tells an utterly human story of unexpected resilience: her own and her daughter s. Ron Franscell, author of "The Sourtoe Cocktail Club"

What if growing old didn't have to mean being obsolete or over the hill? What if, instead, it meant being classic, venerable and wise? What if it meant writing the novel you've always wanted to write, or painting, or singing, or teaching, or traveling to a place you've always dreamed of? In gOld, Harry J. Getzov introduces us to many of the extraordinary senior citizens he has interviewed from all walks of life as part of the Eldercation project he created to promote the concept of positive aging. These folks talk freely about lessons learned and wisdom gained and share their feelings about aging, demonstrating that life after 65 can, indeed, be passionate and beautiful. A precious treasure lies hidden within our older population waiting to be revealed. gOld opens the door to its revelation and suggests that it is time to change the way we think about aging and about our elder citizens.

Wakefield's memoir chronicles his move to New York City in the 1950s.