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For Annie and Evan it was love at first sight. To the outside world, Annie...
Taking place during World War II, Somewhere in the Stars is the story of three...
Joe Fiorito spent 18 hours in total, over the course of three days, on the...
Expulsion & Other Stories consists of two parts: a novella followed by a group of...
Ouellette-Michalska's feminism is subtle. She understands that repression imprisons men as well as women ......
Telescope is a story cycle about Lawrence Teitel, the protagonist of Living Room (Boheme Press,...
A bored part-time college English instructor who teaches a class called "Humour in Classical Novels" to students who really don't care decides to try his hand at stand-up comedy, which takes him from his very protected academic world into an arena open to attack and persecution by his family, the public at large, the media and the courts. The novel explores issues such as political correctness/cultural sensitivity, personal and private space and social media, freedom of speech, huckster media, the notion of originality and most especially the nature of humour itself -- what makes something funny, what subjects are taboo...
"It's all out there in the ether swirling around like a giant dried cat turd waiting to drop on my head. Suddenly people are staring at me on the street, nudging each other, whispering: Look! That's him. That's Bruce Leonard. The piss comic."
