Author Description

This PLJ issue presents an interview with D.J. Butler, who has had a successful career in corporate law, and has published several fantasy and children's books with top presses. It also carries over forty, detailed book reviews of fiction, scholarly, general interest and art books by the editor, Anna Faktorovich. Then, an essay by John Basourakos (Assistant Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University) about David Mamet's (American) examination of a besieged and troubled American manhood in his plays. You will also find a longer than usual collection of innovative new poetry from John J. Brugaletta (professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton), Millard C. Davis (entomologist), Louis Gallo (teaches at Radford University), Anna Kapungu, Simon Perchik (attorney), Timothy Robbins, Sam Robertson (served as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame), Michael Skau (emeritus professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha), Kim Cope Tait, William Waters (associate professor at the University of Houston Downtown) and Howard Winn (Professor of English at SUNY). Finally, the short stories section includes works by Kristin Fouquet, Phillip Parotti (taught at Sam Houston State University) and Henry Simpson.