Twilight of the Long-ball Gods: Dispatches From the Disappearing Heart of Baseball by John Schulian “For baseball fans, John Schulian’s Twilight of the Long-Ball Gods is the perfect antidote to winter. Schulian does something remarkable in this book: He brings to life an all-but-lost world of semipro teams and American Legion ball, of old Negro leagues and the Class D minors. . . . Schulian can flat-out write. Boxing and baseball have, by far, produced our best sports prose, and Schulian crafts sentences with the best of American journalists. Quotidian struggles here become the stuff of literature because American mythology, … Continue reading Praise for Twilight of the Long-ball Gods

The Usual Mistakes by Erin Flanagan “If this second release to the fledgling ‘Flyover Fiction‘ series is typical, one can safely predict that the series will be among the most significant in American letters. Flanagan writes with some of the same penetrating insights into the human condition that one finds in the work of Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams. . . . Flanagan has a remarkable ability to penetrate the real people behind the facades they present to an often-judgemental public. This first collection augurs well for Flanagan’s future. Hers is a singular talent. This book belongs … Continue reading

Bleed into Me by Stephen Graham Jones “The concluding story, ‘Discovering America,’ brilliantly encapsulates the whole collection. . . . Jones’ sardonic tale reveals the sort of casual stereotyping and prejudice that never seems to disappear.”— Booklist Continue reading

Carrying the Torch by Brock Clarke “Be prepared to be surprised on every page of Clarke’s collection of brilliant short stories. . . . Clarke’s literary bombshells are . . . of the appreciatively hushed ‘wow!’ and ‘whoa!’ variety that accompany a sublimely crafted sentence or a distinctive turn of phrase that comes seemingly out of nowhere, with its unexpected ability to render large truths in such a pithily appropriate way that even the most critical reader will sit up and take notice.”— Booklist Continue reading

A World of Light by Floyd Skloot “Skloot . . . write[s] an engaging and powerful essay. . . . The author is a talented writer for whom literary creativity is clearly an essential part of how he navigates life with his own memory impairment. . . . The book is recommended for medical humanities courses, especially those for which writings on the experience of neurologic devastation would be worthwhile. The essays are well written and at times quite amusing, despite the seriousness of the topic.” *Starred Review* “This collection of brilliant essays bears witness to the astonishing strength, spirit, … Continue reading