Vespera Luminaire is a pioneering radio engineer at the BBC, blessed-or cursed-with synesthesia: she sees electromagnetic waves as ribbons of color and light. Alone in her laboratory one midnight, Vespera intercepts a signal that defies all science: the voices of the recently deceased.She learns a terrifying truth: consciousness survives death as electromagnetic energy, and a mysterious figure known only as The Collector is trapping these souls to power a dark machine called the Et...

In this imaginative and philosophic collection of poems, Charles Etheridge recollects growing up in rural, spacious Columbus County, in Southeastern North Carolina. He envisions the people, woods, and waters as lyrical or narrative embodiment of both beauty and imperfection, both complete and incomplete because each relies on the nature and balance of the others.

A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two sma...