Tina Howe Theatre Communications Group ($16.95) by Alison Barker In a 2007 interview with Mike Wood, playwright Tina Howe revealed that her influences were just

Steve Roggenbuck by Morgan Myers To paraphrase Jay-Z, Steve Roggenbuck isn’t a businessman, he’s a business, man. Or maybe it would be better to say

Jimmy Santiago Baca Sherman Asher Publishing ($12.95) by Warren Woessner Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write in a review: Jimmy Santiago Baca writes

Melissa Range Texas Tech University Press ($21.95) by Russ Brickey Recently, at a poetry panel somewhere in the Midwest, a traveler from New York stood

Mary Leader Shearsman Books ($15) by Kate Angus Mary Leader’s third collection of poetry, Beyond the Fire, is the work of a restless and inquisitive mind.

Elizabeth Bradfield Persea Books ($15) by Lucy Bryan Green In this mesmerizing voyage to a land “more ice than earth,” Elizabeth Bradfield probes the lives

Crystal Curry Slope Editions ($14.95) by Greg Bem “What telling there is is always good . . . But, my heart holds out for a

Edited by Darién J. Davis and Oliver Marshall Continuum ($24.95) by Jesse Freedman When news of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union reached Stefan Zweig, his

Gary Fincke Michigan State University Press ($29.95) by Scott F. Parker The Canals of Mars, Gary Fincke’s memoir in parts, comprises five self-defining categories of

Steven Johnson Riverhead Books ($26.95) by Kevin Smokler A great “book of ideas” can change the way an entire culture views itself. A lousy one catches