An Interview with the Multifacited Andrew Demcak

Andrew Demcak is an award-winning poet and novelist whose work has been widely published and anthologized both in print and on-line, and whose books have been featured at Verse Daily, The Lambda Literary Foundation, The Best American Poetry blog, and Oranges & Sardines. His fourth book of poetry, Night Chant, was published by Lethe Press, 2011. His other […]

Book Notes on Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman

Paperback, 204 pagesPublished by Lethe PressISBN: 9781590210536 Steve Berman’s young adult novel opens with all of the elements for a clichéd teen horror movie: alienated goths, check; nearly Halloween, check; and an ouija board, check. But he promptly destroys a reader’s expectations and gives me one of the best YA novels I have read to date. […]

Book Notes on A Report from Winter by Wayne Courtois

Paperback, 280 pages From Lethe PressJuly 2009 ISBN: 9781590212356 Memoir moves at a different pace than fiction. Characters and plotlines push the narrative forward, usually toward an actual or emotional climax. A standard novel has a rise and fall. I am sure many of us remember the plot diagram from an English class in our […]