Sometimes you have to follow your heart. Your heart sets the destination and your mind, intellect, ambition, and even your physical body may then follow. Some may call such a thing a mission, others see it as obsession, but no matter its name, James B. Wells, author of Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s […]
“Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew” by James B. Wells
December 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Marina Brown
October 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Marina Brown is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist. Her debut novel, Land Without Mirrors, in 2013 won a Gold Medal from the Florida Authors and Writers Association. Her second novel, Lisbeth in 2015, also won the Gold Medal from the Florida Writers Association. A volume of poetry, The Leaf Does Not Believe It Will […]
“Naked Thoughts” by Marina Brown
October 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Well-named and powerful, Naked Thoughts (Gilberte Publishing, 2025) by multi-award-winning writer Marina Brown contains 58 poems that invite readers into beauty and soul-searching along with her poetic syntax. These poems will haunt you long after the final line as Brown’s artistry conjures images both unforgettable and of the deepest beauty. In what is perhaps her […]
“South of My Dreams” by F.K. Clementi
October 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In South of My Dreams (U of SC Press 2024)a part detailed memoir, part therapy session, we follow F. K. Clementi, the author of, as she searches the world, from her birthplace in Rome, to Poland, to an Israeli kibbutz, and finally to New York City in America, the place of her fantasized dreams. Only […]
“Inheritance with A High Error Rate” by Jen Karetnick
February 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Reading Jen Karetnick’s bio suggests that the woman is never without her computer and her scribbled notes, her peripatetic inquisitiveness driving her in a hundred directions at once. But this is not a scattered writer. Apparently when Jen Karetnick homes in on a topic, her views expressed as a critic, travel reviewer, appliance tester, cookbook […]
“The Devil’s Fools” by Mary Gilliland
April 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Award-winning poet Mary Gilliland has led writing retreats and found inspiration in sites in Greece and Scotland, and as we will see, in the most pedestrian of venues—her bowls on kitchen shelves, the farmer’s field, her mother’s weary body as it climbs into bed. Mary Gilliland’s bows to the smallest of creatures, the most ancient […]