Jessica Ordich and her puppet persona provide information literacy instruction to adult learners. Fictional character you would like to be marooned with on a deserted island? Joe Kavalier from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay... Read More
If you’re a book-centered traveler and you’re in San Francisco, it’s pretty much a given that you have to stop at the legendary City Lights Bookstore in North Beach. Less famous, though, is the art installation right around the... Read More
Seth Godin—entrepreneur, author, king of the TED Talk—specializes in marketing in the digital age. We thought we’d check in with Godin to see how, when, or even whether, this digital transition in publishing is going to reach a point... Read More
Every so often, one of the Big Five publishers goes all in with the promotion of a new title, and the book industry’s 99 percent can do little more than step back and marvel. Such was the case with the Rupert Murdoch / News Corp.-owned... Read More
Winner of the 2014 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, the fetchingly named "Underwater Panther" is Angie Macri’s debut collection of poems rooted in Mississippi River landscapes and lore. Ismenian Dragon Is a constellation bigger than the... Read More
Intensely cerebral, alive to every facet of his life’s pleasures, convictions, and ironies, Philip Terman has authored eight collections of poetry and chapbooks, and earned the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award, the Sow’s Ear Prize, and... Read More
A black woman in America, hyper-acutely mindful of her race and gender, has much of interest to share, and when the medium of sharing is skillful poetry, walls come tumbling down. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, aforementioned, is an English... Read More
Richard Jarrette’s wanderlust in the natural world does not require a compass. He treks a starlit path favoring one foot and then the other, attentive and inquisitive. Jarrette is the author of Beso the Donkey and lives in... Read More