Book cover image for Bequeath, a collection of essays by Melora Wolff. The image on the cover is of the view from the top of a flight of steps in front of an a townhouse, rowhouse, or brownstone. The steps are covered in melting snow and there are a number of footprints, some of which have been partially snowed over. The sidewalk is front has been shoveled, and the show is piled up on the curb, but snow has fallen again to cover it. A partially-visible gray vehicle is parked in front.

“Melora Wolff’s memoir in essays brings thrillingly to life the vanished New York of her childhood and adolescence in the 1970s, along with her beloved parents and friends. In glorious prose, Wolff conjures textures, ideals, and emotions―from a girl’s early experience of joy to a city’s rampant paranoia and the eager futurism of Lost in Space. Bequeath is a beautiful, memorable book.”

— Claire Messud, author of Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

“These magical essays shimmer with tenderness and regret, with sensuous allusion, joy, self-deprecating humor, and wry intelligence. The memories are so successfully evoked that the question then becomes: Does the present stand a chance, now that the past has been recaptured?”

— Phillip Lopate, author of A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays

“Bequeath is a collection that reads like a memoir, or even more: a succession of memoirs. Each essay here is as layered and fully rendered as a book. The voice is assured, the narrative movements as inevitable as they are unpredictable. Tracing the arc of a life and a family―her own―Wolff reminds us of all we know and all we never know, the insufficiency of memory and also its necessity.”

— David L. Ulin, author of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles

Book cover image for the Parting, a hybrid novel by Melora Wolff. The cover features a painting of a dark field or landscape at night. The land is on an incline of about 10%, as though it is on the side of a hill.

“Melora Wolff walks the boundary between meta-fiction and prose poetry in this brief, intense collection of fables, quasi-fables, dreams, and dream-songs. Like a porcelain bowl filled with river stones, The Parting presents a series of intimate, lapidary, water-worn worlds that will haunt the reader long after they have closed the book.”

— Campbell McGrath, (Fever of Unknown Origin: Poems)

“In the spirit of Marquez and Hass, Wolff’s poems are spun from dream-logic, unforgettable language, and in equal measure her powerful lyric imagination and heart.”

–Shara McCallum, (No Ruined Stone, poems)

Book cover image for Movies to Manage By: Lessons in Leadership from Great Films by John K. Clemens, author of The Classic Touch, and Melora Wolff. The cover features the title set on the top third of the cover over a dark green background, with three caricature-style drawings of characters from films in the middle over an off-white background, with the remaining book information below.

“The best leadership films deal with the fundamentals: the presence or absence of integrity and trust.” — John K. Clemens, to The Wall Street Journal

“Fun to read and thought-provoking. Clemens and Wolff have crafted an engaging book that illustrates the entire gamut of good and bad leadership behavior.” — George R. Stephan, Kollmorger Corp.