Allen Tate and Cleanth Brooks were both born in Kentucky near the turn of the century, both attended Nashville’s Vanderbilt University, and both were active participants at a time when reading and teaching poetry at the college level... Read More

When Ezra Pound was led from his home in Rapallo, Italy, by two Italian partisans on the morning of May 3, 1945, it was the beginning of a journey that didn’t end until his release from a federal mental institution in Washington, D.C.... Read More

This wonderful gem of a book is the second by Roy Hollister Williams, president of his own marketing company in Buda, Texas. Wizard of Ads is a collection of essays and letters originally written by Williams to clients and friends about... Read More

Sam Pickering, the author of this, his 10th book of essays, was the model for the Robin Williams? character in the 1989 film Dead Poet’s Society. He is an English professor at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, one of many... Read More

Glorie is octogenarian Glorie Carcieri, the opinionated and determined protagonist in the debut novel of Caryn James, the chief television critic for The New York Times, and a frequent Times contributor of film and book critiques.... Read More