The Fund by H.T. Narea Macmillan/Forge Books, 2011 Reviewed by Brenda Brooks Only since reading H.T. Narea’s The Fund have I realized how narrow my notion of asset management has been. While it’s true that my personal definition of “fund” has certainly matured over the last few years (careening between dumbstruck confusion and mind-bending disbelief) [...]

The Girl in the Box is a psychological suspense/literary mystery set in Guatemala and Canada. A young Mayan girl, Inez, is held captive in a dark shed in the Guatemalan jungle by her parents, who believe she is cursed. She has been traumatized by the violence of the ongoing Civil War between the government and the [...]
The Rise of the Twitter Novel? by Robert Hilles While the rise of the Twitter novel is not yet certain, if this format succeeds, it should not come as a surprise. Stories and the means we use to publish, deliver, and read them have always evolved to match current technologies. Different from other evolutions of the book, [...]