Author: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Apart Catherine Taylor Ugly Ducking Presse, May 2012 168 pages $17 Partway through Catherine Taylor’s lyric mélange Apart, there is a moment—just one—at which the reader is permitted to entertain the notion that perhaps the narrative is about to settle down into the story of a woman’s trip back to South Africa; the South Africa…

Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption Nancy Mullane PublicAffairs 384 pages $26.99 American prisons hold over 140,000 lifers. Under the rallying cry “life means life,” parole is rare; some states have eliminated it. Graphed, the number of lifers over the past three decades looks like a steep mountain ascent, no cliff in…