The Art Gallery is a romantic novel told from the perspective of Jasper, a young novelist, who we first meet coming out of a dark place post-heartbreak. As he stumbles through the motions of each waking morning, Jasper is determined to protect himself from experiencing such devastation again. What was supposed to be two one-way tickets to London, England, has turned into one—his fragile heart desires nothing more than to board the plane alone, where he can escape the memories of his former beau. That is until he has an unexpected encounter at a pop-up gallery with a boy, Clayton.Still terrified by the idea of letting anyone in, and after days of postponing the inevitable, Jasper sends a text to Clayton—sparking numerous games of twenty questions, dates along the Pacific, and nights sitting poolside beneath the moonlight at Jasper's childhood home in the hills. The two become nearly inseparable. But there is one problem. His frightened...

Jane Stiles has embarked on an intense odyssey into the world of domination and submission. Her lover, Luke, forced her to quit her job and give up her possessions, so her life now revolves around him, his friends and clients. Hovering in the background is Luke’s best friend, Marcello, whose ego is as towering as his stature. Marcello has set his sights on Jane. Book 2 in the My Body Trilogy.

A look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999 and, like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative he knew was one defined by unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of stories of oppression, exile, and occupation told over and over again. In the summer of 2014, during a brief lull in the bombing from Israel's Operation Protective Edge, photos emerged of a young Gazan girl in a green dress sifting through the rubble of her destroyed home. She was looking for her books. In Pay No Heed to the Rockets, Di Cintio travels to Palestine to find the girl. Using the form of a political-literary travelogue, he explores what literature means to modern Palestinians and how Palestinians make sense of the conflict between a rich imaginative life and the daily violence of survival. Taking the long route through the West Bank, into Jerusalem, across Israel and finally into Gaza, he...