In his novella -Stuff Happens- Markowitz combines elements of fiction and non fiction in a new form he calls "friction" - a combination of the fictitious with the real. In The Practice and Other Stories he writes short stories with satiric wit and Jewish humor about working class New York characters he had observed during his growing-up years. Greatly influenced by the movies, he often turns a satiric camera eye on the details of every day life. With the publication of Bubbie and Zadie Save the Day Markowitz retells a Romanian folk tale that his mother often told to him and his siblings as a rather unusual bed time story. Xlibris is the publisher of all three books.

Jack Henry lives in the high desert of SE California. Published in numerous journals, he also has six chapbooks to his name. "with the Patience of Monuments" is his first full length collection of poetry. Jack Henry is the pen name of Thomas Kenney.
Reviews
"Jack Henry's writing is the real deal. No bullshit, no posing. This is essential American literature."
- Tony O'Neill, "Down and Out on Murder Mile" (Harper Perennial)
I have always admired Jacks writing, his fearless self-revelations combined with a world-view that is equal parts jaded and hopeful...the way he turns himself inside out, and then goes down a little deeper, moves in a bit closer, and, just as you think hes in for the kill, suddenly]a gentle word, a line so full of such graceful beauty you get, well, slammed in the face. Again.
- Puma Perl, "Belinda and her Friends" (Erbacce Press)
Jack Henrys poetic voice speaks here again with mastery and precision...These poems will cut you, then rifle through your wallet. But they will also reveal vulnerability and humanity while so doing. This is a book you need.
- David McLean, " Hellbound" (Epic Rites Press)
Jack Henry's large heart, a veteran of wars, accidents, fears, madness, disillusion, is, in these 80 different dance halls of image and sound, breaking invisible bread with jesus as the latter downs his meds with shots of tequila, while on the corner of 6th and Los Angeles Streets the meteor of hope has crashed into Obama's tag team and the churches of the sky are rolling across clouds of Charlie Parker's smoke.
- Scott Wannberg, "Strange Movie Full of Death" (Perceval Press)

"My Return" is sure to provoke intense public discussion and controversy. The author, Jack Henry Abbott, is now serving a fifteen-years-to-life sentence for the 1981 stabbing of Richard Adan, a young night manager of the Binibon Cafe on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Except for a short-lived escape from prison in 1971, Abbott had been incarcerated in one institution or another since he was thirteen years old. His parole placed him in another potentially violent environment, but one that had a completely different set of rules. He has consistently maintained that he thought Richard Adan was carrying a knife and that his attack on Adan was the result of that perception. "My Return" is Jack Abbott's and Naomi Zack's story of the death of Richard Adan, the ensuing trial, and Abbott's return to prison.It is comprised of "The Death of Tragedy", a play based on the actual court records; an illustrated appendix giving stage directions and the background of the issues and people involved; and "Men of Letters", a collection of Abbott's essays on a variety of topics - religious, philosophical, historical, and literary - including an autobiographical account of his tragic life.