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I’m gratified by the response to my last post, which got more comments than any other in recent memory, except for the ones in which I gave away stuff for free. It’s good to know what sorts of ...

Today’s news brought word of adjunct teachers in higher education being “hidden” by their employers in order to improve U.S. News & World Report rankings. Suddenly I started seeing ...

Isherwood on Writing (ed. James J. Berg, U. of Minnesota Pr., 2007) is a series of lectures by Christopher Isherwood at California universities in the 1950s and ‘60s. Isherwood is mostly ...

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 ...