Imagining one’s parents as children is an exercise too rarely done. It’s much easier for parents to empathize with children than the other way around. The author, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Washington (Seattle),... Read More

Thoreau’s two-year experiment “to live deliberately” on Walden Pond consecrated that body of water as America’s most famous literary landmark. To observe the sesquicentennial of Walden’s publication, a group of new and eminent... Read More

Frank Villani has achieved the American Dream—he’s worked hard and amassed enough security to spend his twilight years complaining about the government full time. He shows guts to spare by making one wildly outrageous statement after... Read More

Byron Carmichael is a seventeen-year-old orphaned genius admitted to a summer program of advanced studies at Brandenburg University. He and a pair of twin siblings Gracie and Nick Winston are assigned to an amazing research project based... Read More

This little wild berry gets complete and undivided attention in "Huckleberry Delights" part of the author’s Delights series of cookbooks. Unfortunately the huckleberry does not keep long or ship well so the book brings with it an... Read More

“During most of the 20th Century we were led to believe that it was our cognitive intelligence, or IQ, that determined how well we would do in life. Yet our common sense and simple power of observation tells us that this simply cannot... Read More

Rennie McQuilkin does what many writers must wish for: he takes one of his early books and re-imagines it. An accomplished poet, McQuilkin is the author of nine collections, including An Astonishment and an Hissing and We All Fall Down.... Read More

As a part of their mission to bring visibility to the works of Asian American women, the Asian American Women Artists Association offers a pan-Asian anthology which honors its forebears while reaching out to the next generation. A... Read More