THE COLOR OF ROCK As a stuffy retired academic curmudgeon, I have an old-fashioned notion of what a university press should publish. Namely, any book
I have just posted a review of Madeleine E. Robins Point of Honour and am happy to announce that the third book in the Sarah
Quick, before National Poetry Month is over! Take a look at what the offering from our friends at SPD: SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION SALE It’s a
MOSTLY WHITE DEPENDING ON WHO’S ASKING I picked up Mostly White at a trade show, choosing it solely because its publisher is Torrey House Press,
INHABITED Torrey House Press fills a very special publishing niche. Their stated mission is to promote “environmental conservation through literature.” Their editors choose books that
Louisiana’s way home is longer than she thinks. Kate DiCamillo’s character Louisana Elefante is not new to her many fans who have read Raymie Nightingale
THE BEAUTY AND LONG LIFE OF POETRY – After Rain a Little Girl Straightening Worm The poems in this collection are selected from a lifetime
The vortex exists, and poetry is one place to find it. It is a phenomenon that occurs when a single image triggers a memory from
2015 Gift Books for the Guys in Your Life Taken from Neal Ferguson’s reviews for bookinwithsunny.com Bill Bryson’s One Summer, America, 1927 – Anchor Books
MURDER IN PICCADILLY Murder in Piccadilly is back! The British Library recently has begun publishing two series for booklovers: Spy Classics and British Library Crime
MOSTLY WHITE, UNLESS ALSO BLACK AND NATIVE AMERICAN I continue to be impressed by the quality of the books published by Torrey House Press. Each
JUST BECAUSE How many of us who have children in our lives remember people telling us, “Enjoy them while you can because they grow up
Carol and John Steinbeck, Portrait of a Marriage I’d been on a Steinbeck jag (reviewing Steinbeck’s Ghost, rereading The Long Valley, browsing through Harvest Gypsies, and finally reading
AMERICAN ZION, CLIVE BUNDY, GOD & PUBLIC LANDS IN THE WEST American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West unearths historic myths
I have two articles from ShelfAwareness that I’d like to share. The first is dated July 5, 2013 and is taken from an article found
If you don’t dress in black or hang out in coffeehouses, why would you want to read poetry? I mean really, you squeaked through all
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