Dear _______, I started reading forever ago. I’m not interested in the why, my longing for words almost aquatic—tangled in me like swamp root. Instead, I’m trying to write a…
At the beginning of the summer I made a pact with my nine-year-old son: We would spend his non-camp days hiking, searching for waterfalls hidden in the woods and parks…
Academy Gothic by James Tate Hill Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015 248 pages – Southeast Missouri State / Amazon James Tate Hill’s Academy Gothic is a contemporary murder mystery laden with…
Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher by Garret Keizer Metropolitan Books (Macmillan), 2014 320 pages – Macmillan / Amazon In 2011, Garret Keizer published an article in Harper’s…
The campus novel is generally a stage for the careering intrigues of petit bourgeoisie; often to hilarious and devastating ends (Stoner, Pnin, The Groves of Academe). Yet every once and…
URSULA or UNIVERSITY by Stephanie Young Krupskaya Books, 2013 188 pages – SPD / Amazon 1. “Feminization of the problem of lived time” -Myung Mi Kim. 2. I started writing…