Matt Baxter: 3 books

(novel) Public education has its share of supporters and detractors. Frame is a fellow who accidentally falls into the teaching profession and is neither. To him it is simply a job. This is the story of an average man working his way through the system; the enjoyable and the excruciating. Although perhaps Frame is further along the behavioral spectrum . . . more odd than average.

An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike. In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a skeptical eye toward “purple” politicians, such as West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda, who...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of...