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Bad choices, deliberate and otherwise, compose the terrain. The dark side of the human heart is in full nuanced display here. It is nothing short of wonderful to see the anger and self-regard of girls and women fully mounted-Julie Brickman, What Birds Can Only Whisper Schildknecht captivates, moves, and unsettles us, reminding us how people struggle to hold each other close as danger lurks around every corner, and often within our own hearts.-Roy Hoffman, Come Landfall In her impressive debut collection, Flora Schildknecht anatomizes humans (and other animals) with all of the precision, intelligence, intuition, and imagination of a scientist and an artist working in close collaboration.-Robin Lippincott, Blue Territory Reading these stories is like stepping among the strange, beautiful, forgiving shadows found under great, old trees--a sense of our aloneness as human inhabitants on this planet against the backdrop of an ancient desire to connect and belong. -Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell from the Sky Wayward, devastating, and lyrical, these narratives walk the line between animal and human, bringing us to the precipice of the moral universe and sometimes beyond, as they test what it means to be alive in the twenty-first century.-Elaine Neil Orr, Swimming Between Worlds When the hair on the back of your neck begins to tighten, relax, relish the work; this writer has you safely in hand.-Lucinda Dixon Sullivan, It Was the Goodness of the Place

Because these short stories comprise a 'suite, ' they should be read in order, just as, say, the parts of a Bach Suite for Unaccompanied Cello should be heard serially. There's huge variety among these stories and significant silences between them. Gayle Hanratty's use of form recreates the very way we both experience and remember our lives. Defined moments, snatched from the flow of time, create vibrant and significant meaning. While Hanratty's suite of stories has caught time on the wing, each moment and each individual story digs its toes into the real earth. These stories have the toughness and truth-telling of authentic tenderness extended toward our human condition.

The Louisville Review, Volume 89, Spring 2021, includes poetry, fiction, art essays, & book reviews from the following authors: Julie Beals, D. A. Becher, Carl Boon, Christopher Buckley, K. J. Bundy, Roger Camp, Peter Cooley, Todd Davis, Anastasia Dreval, Halina Duraj, Lynn Gordon, Lily Greenberg, Kathleen Gregg, Samina Hadi-Tabassum, Ken Holland, Elizabeth Hughey, Marcia L. Hurlow, Emily Jennings, Bonnie Omer Johnson, Hallie Johnston, Brandon Krieg, Peter Leight, Gabrielle LeJeune, Robin Lippincott, Elmo Lum, Sofia Machado, Melissa Madenski, Sheryl Massaro, John David Morgan, Keith Morris, Emily Jane O'Dell, David O'Connell, Derek Otsuji, D Larissa Peters, Mary Popham, Lisa Rhoades, David Ricchiute, Kristen Roach, Carol Schaechterle, Flora K. Schildknecht, Alex Shull, Joan Seliger Sidney, Will Simescu, Taruni Tangirala, Tara Tulshyan, Luke Wallin, M J Werthman WhiteCornerstone (Grades K-12 Poems) features the following poets: Evelyn Coen, Nicole Chu, Lily Egol, Jaiden Galecki, Agnes Loeser, Nanditha Nagavishnu, Ajay Sawant

Rick Neumayer's Journeyman tells a timeless tale of youth striving to define not only itself but the world it inhabits. Who lives and who dies and why? What new and old values to reject or embrace-and at what point in the journey? A journeyman in earlier lingo was a tradesman who was no longer an apprentice but not yet a master of his trade. This honest, funny, and heartbreaking novel delivers everything a reader could wish for in the way of action, characters who are convincing and engaging, and ideas worth pondering.

In 1863, civil war is raging in the United States. Victorine Meurent is posing nude, in Paris, for paintings that will be heralded as the beginning of modern art: Manet's Olympia and Picnic on the Grass. However, Victorine's persistent desire is not to be a model but to be a painter herself. In order to live authentically, she finds the strength to flout the expectations of her parents, bourgeois society, and the dominant male artists (whom she knows personally) while never losing her capacity for affection, kindness, and loyalty. Possessing both the incisive mind of a critic and the intuitive and unconventional impulses of an artist, Victorine and her survival instincts are tested in 1870, when the Prussian army lays siege to Paris and rat becomes a culinary delicacy. Drēma Drudge's powerful first novel Victorine not only gives this determined and gifted artist back to us but also recreates an era of important transition into the modern world.