Winner of the 2022 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative NovelJEF Books assistant editor Penelope Gerdes said the following in her encomium for the novel:“When I sat to read The Makings of a Nob...
Lavishly illustrated in four-color, James R. Hugunin's trilogy of books, Picky Hunting, Picky Unchained, and Picky's Constant Conversations, is now collected together in one convenient form on a h...
In this extraordinary fiction, all letters lead to A, and A is for everyone. One reads between the letter(s) and discovers a new literary form that defies definition. When I first approached this m...
Synopsis of the Novel, Own Little Worlds
Cal Massey is an accomplished author with a background in journalism and a passion for storytelling. His latest novel, Own Little Worlds, is a gripping tale...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot
The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot is a massive, whale tale kind of a book that exercises the writer in Eckhard Gerdes. The novel is not just...
Synopsis of the Novel, Plague City
Plague City, the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award Winner, is a genre-defying novel that invites the reader to participate in its narrative. With a collage-style approac...
Synopsis of the Novel, "The Greatest Place on Earth": Personal Note: A Work of Absurdity?
From author Jeff Weisman comes an absurdist tale of a highly regarded psychology professor asked to lead an...
Synopsis of the Novel, Picky Hunting: A Journal of the Plague Year
Picky Hunting, a retired Jewish psychoanalyst with a background in English Literature, moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to find sola...
Synopsis of the Novel, Those Brave As the Skate Is
Patrick Keller's Those Brave As the Skate Is is the 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. Jonathan Lyons, the contest...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Marble Corridor
The Marble Corridor is an experimental work of literature written by Ryan Madej. It reads like a found artifact and Madej's stewardship of the style singl...
Synopsis of the Novel, Death at Half Mast
Death at Half-Mast by Denis Emorine is a novel of maturity, a profound, philosophical work by a writer, essentially a poet, who is not afraid to ask the un...
Synopsis of the Novel, Porn-Anti-Porn
Porn-Anti-Porn displays the body in pain and passion as it's never been displayed before. Fired at the reader from opposing directions, the texts are brief, er...
