In her smart and sparkling new collection of poem, From the Park Bench, Sara Holbrook deftly switches personas from poet to provocateur, from teacher to trickster and from literary gumshoe to a shimmering shaman of the Spoken Word. Her work will be treasured by open-hearted children of all ages for years to come. -Michael Heaton, Minister of Culture, author, screenwriter
“There were three things that made me want to take a hard look back at where I came from and what I’ve done and try to make sense of it. The first was getting shot, the second was getting old, and the third was working on this book. Getting shot came first. It happened in Cleveland on April 26, 1976, and except for the fact that I was shot from ambush that evening, it was pretty much like any other day at that period of my life. I wa...
“During the 30 years I was active in politics I would read novels to relax, to reflect, or to just imagine myself anywhere other than in City Hall. I ain’t never read anything as honest, imaginative and utterly scary as CITI. At first I thought it was about me; shit, where has this guy been?” -Mike White. Former Mayor of Cleveland RA Washington’s new novel, CITI, simultaneously explodes and expands our notions of gender, race, iden...
“The Starlight Line, is a fascinating, complex, layer-cake of a book. The frame narra…tion is semi-autobiographical; the narrator is a frustrated writer from Cleveland, searching for inspiration. The other layers interpenetrate and enrich the frame story: Jack London’s drug-addled wanderings; Trotsky’s assassination in Mexico; a writer’s search for Jack Kerouac’s mysterious muse, Esperanza Villanueva. Marshall’s skillful ...
Leading American poet and international performing artist Ray McNiece has crafted a soaring love song for his hometown. Adding to the melody are Tim Lachina’s black and white photos that capture the beauty, struggle and grit of a city reinventing itself. This book is for anyone who has ever experienced the conflicted love for a city that is a symbol of post-industrial decline and its proud and resilient citizens who came the ...
Many have written about the rise of Nazi Germany and the indelible mark it has left in history. But none has told the story of the plight of the German Jewish writers so well as Yoko Morgenstern has in Double Exile. In a trifecta of countries, time, and cultures, Morgenstern weaves a spellbinding psychological drama that innocently begins when a graduate student from Japan comes to Germany to search out the story of Hans Carossa, on...
On a summer afternoon in 1985, while sitting on his porch steps in Tremont, Mike DeCapite opened a notebook to a blank page and wrote the words A Year on the Southside, and under that heading he took a few notes about the neighborhood where he’d been living for four years and where he’d spent nearly every Saturday visiting his grandmother, growing up. DeCapite was 23, with time to kill, having recently lost his job as a cab driver. T...
Snodgrass’ writing careens between the caterwauling of desperate souls in the fever of rutting to moments of perfect silence and contemplation. The command of his material is sure and he is unafraid to develop themes atop such disparate muses as Squeaky Fromme, drunken nights, and the legacy of wartime atrocities. There are plenty of laugh out loud moments within these stories, as they arise from the humor of the situation an...
Salinger’s writing is like a bear in the kitchen, tearing into the tender truth of everyday life with unpredictable swipes from sharp linguistic claws “capable of ripping through a refrigerator’s skin.” A grappling hook in a stingray, a red-tailed hawk on a bark covered fence post, an outdated pack of Twizzlers – Salinger describes familiar images with “the choreographed precision of slow motion pistons,” scientifically accurate and...
Terry White’s newest work collects stories published within the past decade in various online and print journals. The stories range from personal reflections of growing up in Ashtabula, Ohio through fictionalized characters at various points of absurdity or crisis in their lives to pieces of flash fiction designed to capture a defining moment in a character’s life. He gives us a range of finely wrought characters in situations both ...
Nelson Munroe carries a shipment he should have never agreed to take. Swinging between paranoia and desperation he convinces himself that completing the delivery circuit will provide redemption and the possibility of a new start for his stalled life. How could he know what awaits him once he hits his destination? A pack of dogs acting as guides to his deconstruction, a man burrowed in a hole who gives him a chance of escape, a de...
Ray finds himself in a house full of cats and memories of his life with his ex-wife Cecilia. With the help of the only friend still speaking to him, Frog, he crafts a unlikely plan for redemption and the heart of the only woman he has ever loved. Spiked with verbal exchanges covering the gamut of movies, music, art and literature, the novel follows Ray and Frog’s adventures as Ray accepts his past mistakes, propelled forward by t...
Hello. This is the future. See our spaceships. See our moving sidewalks and silent cars. See our tallest, shiniest building and the bright blue sky that teeters upon its point. Thus begins Grant Bailie’s fourth book, TomorrowLand, a collection of interwoven stories and drawings that offer a vision of the future that is, by turns, dystopian, nostalgic, whimsical, surreal, and morose. With a cast of characters that include mad scientis...
The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts proves that the Rust Belt is the perfect backdrop for a whirlwind romance, that shopping at the discount grocery is really performance art, and that a half-acre lot in the middle of America is all you need to accommodate a field of dreams. This book is also a food memoir for the rest of us, wherein a dozen ears of sweet corn turn a humble bowl of chowder into a divine creation, th...
Established in 2011, Red Giant Books publishes literary fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, RGB seeks titles of high merit that suit our idiosyncratic tastes.
