“A rock concert should be counterculture and youth-driven—not something you invite your mother to. Rock is the opposite of mothers.” If this sounds like an insider observation about teen thinking, it is. It comes from a Woody... Read More

Writing the lede (sic) to a review of this book is a daunting task when one considers the expertise of its author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, columnist for the Boston Globe, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of... Read More

“It’s like driving at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can drive across the entire country that way.” Winner of two NEA fellowships, author of six novels and five short story collections and former writing... Read More

The academic is surely one of the least likely suspects to participate in the recent vogue of memoir writing. One would think that the long hours spent in libraries required to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor would not provide enough... Read More

Who doesn’t love an attic overflowing with objects old and new, illuminated by a bare light bulb or shaft of sun slipped in from the world outside? An anthology encompassing thirty-five years of university press publishing and over... Read More

Honestly, now, haven’t you mused at one time or another that the world would be a better place if only someone would invent a circular cycle with pedals for eight riders? Or a personal air purifier consisting of a helmet containing... Read More

“We grow old, not by living a certain number of chronological years, but by becoming idle in mind, body and purpose. We are told it’s time to grow old, and others expect it, and we defer and play our part.” Thus Harkness sets the... Read More

In her debut novel, Labovitz presents an intriguingly complex mystery set deep in the hills of West Virginia among the secretive, suspicious people of a close-knit rural community Zoe Kergulin, a private investigator not without her own... Read More