Virginia Lovers is not yet another of those cute gay Young Adult novels most readers like, above all since, the gay character that I probably liked more, Brandon, is already dead when the novel begins.Brandon was a gay teenager in a Southern small town in 1975… do I need to add something more to ...
These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we’ll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we’ll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the abo...
In Michael Parker’s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father’s tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread the...
Elwood. INSIDE THE VENUS FLYTRAP CARNIVOROUS PLANTS MUST BE ABLE TO • ATTRACT INSECTS • CAPTURE BUGS • DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN FOOD AND NOT FOOD • DIGEST THEIR PREY Despite his rudimentary skill with “visualizing the narrative,” as Dr. Elwood had referred to it, it was hard f...
Back pews and balcony of the church thinned so much the preacher asked the couple dozen of them still in attendance to spread out so it would look like he’d drawn a crowd. Weeks later the preacher himself went off island, hymnals he said he needed, and never came back. Woodrow watched those last ...
They had been having an argument about the right of access to Hoffman’s inquiry by Kistler. Hoffman had challenged him about the file on his desk. Kistler’s brutal answer was that he had every right to all information relevant to the kidnap and had made that abundantly clear from the outset. &nbs...