I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays
At one point early in her new book of essays, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways, Karen Salyer McElmurray writes, “With memoir, we become accountable.” Later, she wants to…
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Stephen Newton
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Writer and independent filmmaker Stephen Newton lives in Southern Appalachia with his wife, Angela, a painter, and their tuxedo cat, Mama. For the past twenty years, he’s been writing fiction about the unexplained and producing documentary films (see below) that explore the causes and consequences of social injustice.
Newton is the author of A Problematic Prophecy & Other Stories. His most recent fiction, book reviews, and essays are featured in Drunk Monkeys, Cagibi, The Write Launch, Litro Magazine, On the Run, The Atticus Review, Ravens Perch, and The Lumina Journal, among others. He is currently writing a mystery novel set in the 1970s.
Wanting Radiance: A Novel
Set in the backdrop of the Appalachian landscape, Karen Salyer McElmurray’s novel, Wanting Radiance, is the extraordinary story of one woman's heroic quest to unravel the dark mysteries of her origins.
Yellowface
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang breaks open the pitfalls of a publishing industry in today's cultural economy. It is an unsettling read by a masterful storyteller.
Poverty, By America
POVERTY is one subject Matthew Desmond knows intimately. That he has personally experienced what it is like to grow up poor in the richest country in the world, and received a Pulitzer Prize for writing about it, sets him apart from other sociologists who study only the poor, but not why they are poor. In his newest book, Poverty, By America, Desmond examines in depth the causes and consequences of the abject poverty affecting millions of Americans.
From Writer to Filmmaker, and Back Again
Stephen Newton shares his path from world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films' subjects.
Twenty-Eight Years and Counting
Seed of Doubt, my novel in progress, was inspired by a true crime that I researched for more than a year with the intention of writing an article for a…