Jim Levy

The District: A Novella and Seven Stories Atalaya Press (2023, 126 pp.) The district of the title novella is a 40-square-blocks basin near a large California coastal city that attracts “all those who have drifted as far west as possible looking for a better deal but finding only the ocean.” These are actors, especially extras, in the movie industry, bohemians, aged anarchists, recovering drug addicts, artists, Beats, homeless and vets who have all congregated in this desultory, strangely...

‘Take Another Piece of My Heart: A Memoir’ By Lucy Herrman Nighthawk Press (2022, 310 pp.) “Something is happening to me,” Dirk, the alarmed husband describes to his wife over the phone. He has been skiing on the Telluride slopes with their Canadian friends. “I felt like lightning went from my throat down through me to my lower back. The pain bent me over onto my poles.