Poems by Five Directions Press authors Ariadne Apostolou, Joan Schweighardt, Claudia H. Long, and Gabrielle Mathieu

Books we loved in June by C.W. Gortner, Kathleen Jennings, Toni Morrison, and Anne Tyler

Interview with Eleanor Parker Sapia, author of "A Decent Woman" and the forthcoming "The Laments."

Books we loved in May: Amy Brill, Colleen Hoover, Carolyn James

Stories about trees for Arbor Day

Book reviews: Ahern, Roar; Coates, Pelton Papers; Cummins, American Dirt; Lynch, Grace

Interview with the Five Directions Press author and co-founder C. P. Lesley.

Monthly picks for good reading: Jen Beagin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Agatha Frost, and Kayte Nunn

Interview with Jacqueline Church Simonds, author of Captain Mary, Buccaneer; and the Heirs to Camelot series.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (HarperCollins, 2009) An uneasy task, mixing the fictional with the historical, but Kingsolver succeeds in...

Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts outs describing them, and now have to share ...

And let’s not forget our own C. P. Lesley’s Song of the Shaman, released January 14, 2020. Find out more about the second in her Songs of...

Lynn C. Miller is a writer, a playwright, a performer, an instructor, the cofounder of a magazine, and so much more. Her life in the perf...

Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has...

Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts out describing them, and now have to share t...

Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so...

As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what they’...

And while you’re browsing all these wonderful books, don’t miss our latest release: Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead, book 2 in her...

According to online urban dictionaries, BFF has a variety of possible meanings, at least one of which is vulgar. Rest assured; here at Fi...

Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant ar...