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Featured Books are titles our editors picked out for a longer look: books by independent and small-press authors that deserve more readers than they have. We choose them ourselves, and authors never pay to be featured. To put a book forward, use our submission form.

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat

Featured Book: Baudelaire's Revenge, by Bob Van Laerhoven

September 21, 2015/Book Review

1870. Paris is a city under siege, literally and figuratively. The Franco-Prussian War is under way, and as the city waits for the Prussian army, its citizens throw themselves into every imaginable indulgence.

Continue reading → Featured Book: Baudelaire's Revenge, by Bob Van Laerhoven

The Card Players by Paul Cézanne

Featured Book: The Evolution of Bid Whist

July 8, 2015/Book Review

The Evolution of Bid Whist, by Ronald L. Allen, is a guide to a classic American card game and an exploration of its roots, how it has changed and how it connects to American history.

Continue reading → Featured Book: The Evolution of Bid Whist

Mixing console in a recording studio

The Big Wide Calm, by Rich Marcello

July 24, 2014/Book Review

Talented young musician Paige Plant is on a quest to create the perfect album: twelve songs that will save the world, make people cry and make her famous. She has everything in place except a big break.

Continue reading → The Big Wide Calm, by Rich Marcello

Oxford Street, London, in 1987

Book Review: Three Seasons by Mike Robbins

April 7, 2015/Book Review

Mike Robbins' Three Seasons is a collection of three novellas linked mainly by place and time: England in the 1980s, a decade of particular flux and instability.

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