THE SPOOKY ART by Norman Mailer
Throughout his writing life … Mr. Mailer seems to have had a constant Picasso-like need to dive into new waters, whether it be film, journalism, long narrative non-fiction—all writing, though all very different genres within which to perform. Many writers would not have survived this, though Mailer seems to have done and continues to do so while always being able to go back to his spooky bitch, the novel.

BROKEN GOURDS by Beresford McLean
In the age of “chick lit,” Broken Gourds is the sort of inspirational folklore that readers probably haven’t seen in quite some time. The story follows a lowly healer whose mission is to empower the oppressed while fostering harmony and hope in a small Jamaican community. This is a story of humanity—the story of its foundation: Love. It is a story of life.

DARWIN: A LIFE IN SCIENCE by Michael White and John Gribbin
Though Darwin did not foresee how this story of stories would unfold, our very geno-centric biology is a perfectly logical consequence of the way Darwin chose to describe evolution in terms of inheritance, random variation, and natural selection, including the survival of adapted species. In this sense alone, Darwin was ahead of his time.