Author Matt Davenport My beloved graciously decided that my 40th birthday was a significant enough…
Books and Writers
I have long been an admirer of the Library of America, the nonprofit publisher that…
When I asked Rebekah Kowal about the audience for her book, How To Do…
Lost Tales Publishing chose the charming Artie & the Princess as their first book, partly…
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow…
The Arabian Nights meets the American South in Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel, The Cailiffs…
Catherine Schaff-Stump runs Kirkwood Community College’s English Language Acquisition program, which gives her a special…
Reefka Schneider’s compassionate drawings, including Mass for the Disappeared, above, accompany poems by her husband,…
Author Michael Zachary Jack mourns the flight of young rural Iowans, especially young rural women,…
Richard Powers Back in the early 1990s, I took a class entitled “The American novel…
Tony and Sharon Kanauskus are closing 21st Century Bookstore after over 26 years. An interesting…
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Adept word-stringer Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is currently Poet Laureate to the state of Kansas.…
Dahlia Lithwick is collaborating with Facebook and Twitter fans on her new novel. I haven’t…
Each fall, I eagerly await the appearance of two short story collections published by the…
A fair number of thrillers cross my desk, tempting me with clichéd promises that my…