Shrewdly capitalizing on the marquee recognition factor of Shakespeare in Love, Charney, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and past president of the Shakespeare Association of America, has compiled a briskly... Read More

“Thank you ironing for always being there, for holding me with board and cord to what’s sane. Sane.” Alice Friman, in an essay which symbolically pits fear of the unconventional against passion, may well have substituted a wayward... 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

The concept of committing one’s life to religious seclusion and then turning away from it is strikingly addressed as the first poem entitled “Ex-Nun in a Red Mercedes” takes off with Great car I tell my friend as we speed from the... Read More

“The baby can sing. And maybe even dance. If I had a baby, that’s the kind of baby I?d want.” Slater captures the imagination so subtly and quickly in the title story that the mind dances to the music with the imaginary baby. This... Read More

The art of story telling is alive and well in this intriguing collection of tales by Kalpakian. The Delinquent Virgin is a pleasant potpourri of humor, drama and unexpected twists. Although several stories are set in the fictional town... Read More

Imagine arriving for a meeting at a client’s home only to be greeted by a mother still in her nightclothes, clearly not prepared for the visit; or a husband drunk and sleeping off a fight with his wife. Imagine sessions where children... Read More

“It will have a cross on it somewhere, and then there can be no doubt, no discussion, that this is and always will be the House of the Living God. Say Amen, somebody.” So writes Rick Bragg in his introduction to Wooden Churches. This... Read More