Short and strong Kat Meads creates alternative realities, and amazingly, it takes her four pages, max. “Little Pockets of Alarm” (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.: Charlotte; 146 pages, paper, $14.95) is a smart and feisty collection of what she...

Stone Animals by Kelly Link Henry asked a question. He was joking. "As a matter of fact," the real estate agent snapped, "it is." It was not a question she had expected to be asked. She gave Henry a goofy, appeasing smile and yanked at the hem of...

Nina Riggs’s Lucky, Lucky by TOM CHRISTOPHER Lucky, Lucky by Nina Riggs Finishing Line Press, 26 pages, $12.00 Nina Riggs’s debut collection from Finishing Line Press, Lucky, Lucky, explores the friction and tectonics of contradictory desires. In...

George Singleton at 701 CCA By OTIS R. TAYLOR, JR. - otaylor@thestate.com There's this restaurant off U.S. 123 in Easley, Dozo, run by Hmong brothers, the kind of place where the portrayal of the Hmong in Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" might be...

Book Review | Kelly Cherry’s “Girl in a Library” By DONNA SEAMAN Special to The Star It is a provocative title. Perhaps you’ve been tagged “Girl in a Library.” Maybe you secretly admired a girl in a library rapt within the embrace of a...