Opinion

Wendy Robards reviews "Jackfish, The Vanishing Village," by Sarah Felix Burns.

Tennyson wrote, "In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." The Academy of American Poets suggests that in spring, and specifically in April, you turn your fancy to poetry.

Katrina Stonoff reviews "By Bread Alone" by Sarah-Kate Lynch.

Founded in April of 2002, the <i>Piker Press</i> got its start with a tiny band of writers who, having giddily written their first full-length novels during National Novel Writing Month in November of 2001, found themselves eager to write more, but with no venue willing to take a chance on unknown, unpublished authors. What this has meant is that the Piker Press has had one goal from the very start: encouraging writers to keep on writing.

Katrina Stonoff reviews the novel, "The Mermaid Chair," by Sue Monk Kidd.

The Piker Press Staff considers, remembers, and instructs about salads.

Katrina Stonoff reviews "Sarah" by Marek Halter and has some reservations about the book.

Professional and creative? Not once you become a parent. Because Mattel's Barbie is there to eat your brain.

Katrina Stonoff reviews "Waiting" by Ha Jin.

Lydia Manx takes us along on a visit to the restaurant "Il Fornaio" for some Italian fare and beautiful views.

Wendy Robards previews the upcoming novel, "The Outlander" by Gil Adamson.

Katrina Stonoff reviews the hilarious memoir, "Marley & Me" by John Grogan.

Wendy Robards reviews "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid.

Katrina Stonoff reviews "Was It Beautiful? by Alison McGhee, and finds it a finely crafted work of fiction about clinical depression.

Katrina Stonoff reviews "The Book of Flying" by Keith Miller. A modern allegory, she notes, and a traditional quest.

Katrina Stonoff reviews in haiku, and says this:"A lyrical and lovely book, 'The Effects of Light', by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, will haunt you, just as the photographs in it haunt their subjects."

Katrina Stonoff reviews "How to Be Lost" by Amanda Eyre Ward and finds it a real page-turner.

If there was one book Katrina Stonoff wishes she could assign everyone to read, it would be "The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

If you hear that zombies are a-foot in your town, let the web be your guide to survival.

Are you hungry yet? You will be...

A quick, quirky read, says Katrina Stonoff of "Company" by Max Barry, but one that you will think about when you look around at your workplace.

The winds are bringing about a change in the climate of writing ...

Katrina Stonoff reviews "Triptych" by Karin Slaughter and finds it unsettling, and a heart-pounder.

Staff writer Bernie Pilarski has a few words to say about the lack of laws against stupidity.

A new feature from the Press: information and maybe a little opinionatin'.

Katrina Stonoff reviews the highly recommended "The Constant Gardener" by John Le Carre.

Katrina Stonoff reviews "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger, a novel made into the movie by the same name.

Wendy Robards reviews Lisa See's book "Peony In Love."

Piker Press staffer Wendy Robards discovers and reviews "Summer Crossing," Truman Capote's first novel, written when he was only 19 years old.

Sand and Bernie get back in the movie theater saddle and review the summer sleeper, "Stardust."