Blogs in October 2017

Time Shifters 20th October 2017

An ancient people who can move through time or space. . . A secret that never should have been revealed. . . One day in a Los Angeles restaurant, Akalya of the Harekaiian witnesses the capture of several of...

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A Christmas Tale 20th October 2017

Few Christmas stories hold as much fascination as the story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Inspired by the Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol, three young women decide to hold a séance to raise the spirits of Christmas Past,...

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Mr. Either/Or 19th October 2017

Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or is an ingenious debut, a verse novel melding American mythology, noir thriller, and classical epic into gritty rhythms, foreboding overtones, and groovy jams surrounding the reader in a surreal atmosphere. Imagine Byron’s Don Juan on...

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The Book Itch 18th October 2017

In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far...

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Flappers 18th October 2017

For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an...

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