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		Underlife and Portico - a chapbook by Michael Lynch July 2009 44pp. ISBN 978-0-9823741-0-8, $7.00 (saddlestitch paperback) "[Lynch] executes his verse well, making Underlife and Portico quite the read." -- Midwest Book Review Through his quietly profound verse, Michael Lynch catalogues the seemingly insignificant milestones in contemporary life, causing the reader to feel at once deeply flawed and lucky to be so. The collection includes Lost, Song of Suburbia, and Substantial Fascinators, among others. O cut-glass decanters of the wet bar! O filament light sculpture! O deep blue, wall-to-wall misery smooth as the skin of the inner thigh-- let no decorator revise you... O furbished stereo console! O high fidelity! O Whipped Cream and Other Delights! O Jump Up Calypso! O On The Street Where You Live! O My Fair Lady still jacketed and unmolested! Endure beneath the sunburst clock and the swirled plaster of the ceiling spangled with flecks of light! --from Michael Lynch's Song of Suburbia
		A Girl Named Charlie Lester - a novel by Carissa Halston September 2007 221pp. ISBN 978-0-6151-6546-2, $14.95 (trade paperback) Honorably mentioned in the 2008 New York Book Festival "The air of the book is sweet but not saccharine, emotionally generous...Halston lets the characters' actions speak for them and, as a result, well-rounded personalities emerge. Charlie is a gem...a lovely piece of female confessional." -- Kirkus Reviews "A Girl Named Charlie Lester is Reality Bites without the cheesy romantic ending or a soulful Ethan Hawke gazing into the camera." -- EDGEBoston "If you laid out Charlie's story in chronological order, it would resemble the conventional form of the hero's journey...the trials Charlie must [face] are based on being female, economically disenfranchised, and having no trustworthy family members to give her guidance. Charlie's journey...will be totally familiar to those of her generation. She is thrust into a world characterized by casual cruelties and sexual exploitation, where naivete and economic desperation can force denigrating choices on people for no better reason than their own vulnerability." -- Sarah Boslaugh, Playback: STL "Strong female bonds, witty dialogue and an acute sense of what it's like to be young today make Charlie a great read." -- Nina Lary, Curve Magazine For more books by Carissa Halston, click here.

A Girl Named Charlie Lester - a novel by Carissa Halston
September 2007 221pp. ISBN 978-0-6151-6546-2, $14.95 (trade paperback)

Honorably mentioned in the 2008 New York Book Festival

"The air of the book is sweet but not saccharine, emotionally generous...Halston lets the characters' actions speak for them and, as a result, well-rounded personalities emerge. Charlie is a gem...a lovely piece of female confessional." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A Girl Named Charlie Lester is Reality Bites without the cheesy romantic ending or a soulful Ethan Hawke gazing into the camera." -- EDGEBoston

"If you laid out Charlie's story in chronological order, it would resemble the conventional form of the hero's journey...the trials Charlie must [face] are based on being female, economically disenfranchised, and having no trustworthy family members to give her guidance. Charlie's journey...will be totally familiar to those of her generation. She is thrust into a world characterized by casual cruelties and sexual exploitation, where naivete and economic desperation can force denigrating choices on people for no better reason than their own vulnerability." -- Sarah Boslaugh, Playback: STL

"Strong female bonds, witty dialogue and an acute sense of what it's like to be young today make Charlie a great read." -- Nina Lary, Curve Magazine

For more books by Carissa Halston, click here.