Emma Young’s precisely detailed poetry is born from broad feelings. Her poems come from the specific softness of summer dusk, from the heartbreaking tenderness of a home town, from the porous release of touching ones toes.

Sandy Pimentel was born into a family of immigrants, Italian and Scottish, and generosity is a theme that runs through her life and memoir. It also informs the meaning behind the title of her book, Blind Acceptance.

In his newest book, In the Country of the Blind, essayist and octogenarian Edward Hoagland turns to fiction.

Ward Just, as the old newspaper saying goes, has ink in his veins. In his new novel, The Eastern Shore, he turns his attention and his memory to the subject of newspapers.