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I’m tired but happy after my summer’s writing labor, feeling accomplished in the short interim before edits begin. It’s good to be back at tasks on campus with more defined schedules and to ...

I'm pleased to bring you today the second installment of reviews by Katya Cummins, who will be reviewing books from university presses here monthly. If you're a publisher or author and would like ...

So a funny thing happened on the way to summer: I sat down to start writing a book, and when I looked up, summer was over. And my couch has a big indentation in it. SkullHolderAlso: My brain ...

This is the third and final part of Tom's interview by Okla Elliott. My thanks to them both. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. --Churm. *** Okla Elliott: You publish the occasional piece of ...

[Here is the second of the three parts of Tom's interview, conducted by Okla Elliott. Read Part 1 here. --Churm] *** OE: Many of the main characters in your new short story collection, Cast ...

Today I'm fortunate enough to post the first of three parts of an extended interview with writer and teacher Thomas E. Kennedy, by writer and teacher Okla Elliott. (See here for a review I wrote ...

Today it makes me happy to help two of my favorite people cross paths, in a sense. Katya Cummins is a former student of mine, and a terrific young writer, whom I’ve asked to review books ...

Thanks to all who entered my big funky "Southern Illinois Rocks" raffle. Congratulations to winners Satch, Hoa, Stacey, Sue, Eva, Denise, Erin, Karissa, Jennifer, and Eric! Enjoy your ...

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” says Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses. Ditto, but the more I read and write on it, the deeper I dream. As I wrote here last month, I only ...

LittleBrotherIs there anything more frustrating than wishing you could play too? My little Wolfie, who's three, spends a lot of time watching big brother Starbuck, seven, and wishing he could ...