Aug 16
The Screw City Poems by Richard Vargas (Roadside Press, 2025) Richard Vargas’s The Screw City Poems is a fierce, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest collection that captures the dissonant beauty of working-class life in America. With a voice that blends raw grit with lyrical sensitivity, Vargas delivers poems rooted in lived experience—poems that hum with the …
May 07
John O’Kane’s The Accidental Jesus is a thought-provoking and highly engaging novel that deftly blends satire, social critique, and spiritual exploration. O’Kane introduces us to a protagonist whose unexpected rise as a modern-day messiah figure sheds light on the complexities of contemporary society. Through sharp, often humorous dialogue, and a rich tapestry of characters, O’Kane …
Feb 09
Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik’s Under Tenement Skies is a masterstroke of raw emotion, storytelling, and sonic atmosphere. This spoken word blues album captures the gritty soul of urban life, blending Perl’s evocative poetry with Sztabnik’s hauntingly resonant musical compositions. Together, they create a vivid tapestry of love, loss, rebellion, and survival, set against the …
