A Boomer, an Xer, and a Millennial walk into a book... Meet Hammerhead Hirsch, a charismatic middle-aged boho known in the 60s as The Pugilist Poet for his Golden Gloves boxing crown and Beat poetry chops. Thirty years later Head has become a first-time father, and his joy is immense—until the mom bolts. Can Head last fifteen rounds as a single dad with a paltry income, scanty prospects, biting demons, and a "ball-and-chain" kid? The tale is told by a worshipful youth who accompanies Head and … [Read more...] about The Pugilist Poets of Venice by Jon Sindell
Bargain Book: Lottie Barrett Lives (Again) by Hugh Centerville
It’s Halloween night, 1966. Thirteen-year-old Lottie has been dead one hundred years and the kids go up to the graveyard with the magic book Charlene Pendergrass swiped from Miss Robespierre. The kids are going to have some fun, scaring themselves, bringing Lottie back, but it turns out Miss Robespierre isn’t the faker everyone says she is and there’s nothing fake about her book either and now there’s a ghost-girl walking the streets of Hope Mountain and what to do with her? Maybe … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Lottie Barrett Lives (Again) by Hugh Centerville
