Grab an Ameripass for one low fare and 'ride the Dog' across America with author Paula Coomer for a gritty, unflinching journey through some of the country's most poignant and vulnerable moments: War. Racism. Women's rights. The Sexual Revolution and more.**Stop off here and there at various crossroads, viewed through the eyes of Mercy Grace Hadley, Chipper Grube, Marlette Peel, Charlotte Dodge, and a cast of others, a community of loosely connected people in Kentu...

A free black man in London wanders too close to the docks on the wrong day. A woman gives birth alone in a barn loft near an Australian outback crossroads. A mother removes her apron, walks away from her family, and tells her secrets only once. A woman in a California living room sobs as her husband informs the assembled adult children that the youngest is only half-brother to the rest. A mental health agent in Idaho struggles with addiction, bureaucracy, and an affection for one of her ch...

In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able to touch or experience touch, or to have to go without it—as so many did and ...