Family Medicine Journal reviews So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine Through Literature edited by Kathleen O’Shea.
“Unlike the innumerable self-help books written to remedy migraines through diet and behavioral changes, this text redirects our attention to patient-centered holistic care. After finishing this book, the reader appreciates that the simple act of gathering a history can […]

WTTW-TV interviews Rob Elder, author of Hemingway in Comics.
“In the comic book world there is the Marvel universe and the DC universe. Less well-known is the Ernest Hemingway universe. The writer, born in Oak Park in 1899, was a towering figure in 20th century literature, a witness to history and a popular figure in comics.
Over […]

KSUP True Crime books are “Stranger Than Fiction” according to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
The Belle of Bedford Avenue:
“Like the best true crime, [McConnell’s] book digs deep into the milieu the victim and his likely assailant inhabited—a world of pampered, fast-living offspring of wealthy families. . .”—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
A Woman Condemned:
“James M. Greiner takes […]

Press author Richard “Pete” Peterson gives you the low down on the Steelers/Eagles rivalry in the Pittsburgh Quarterly.
“The rivalry reached a climax on Saturday night, October 23, 1954 when the Steelers played the Eagles at a sold-out Forbes Field in arguably the greatest game to that point in Steelers’ history—and it also featured a miraculous […]

Join Robert K. Elder, author of Hemingway in Comics on this informative interview from This Is Not a Pipe Podcast.
“There’s something about him—and his life and his work—that I think still contributes to a modern dialogue in a way that other writers just don’t.”
Listen here…

Don’t miss So Much More Than a Headache author Kathleen O’Shea as she answers the question: What’s it like to wake up as a sufferer of chronic migraine? In Psychology Today online.
“If the pain moves to a throbbing, pounding pain behind my right eye, I haven’t caught it in time, and the nausea and vomiting are […]

Don’t miss The House That Rock Built author Norm N. Nite in this amazing interview on It’s About You from WKYC-TV.

The Cleveland Review of Books looks at The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970, edited by Susan J. Erenrich.
“The Cost of Freedom is a book about remembering. It is a compilation of several dozen pieces of writing, some written soon after the events of May 4, 1970, and others written years or […]

Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate, picks Speak a Powerful Magic: Ten Years of the Traveling Stanzas Poetry Project for her September read.
“Every time I go to the Wick Poetry Center or return to this volume or visit the website, where everyone can write poems and post them, I discover new treasures I […]

KSU Press author Richard “Pete” Peterson continues his rivalries series writing about the 1960 Pirates Easter miracle.
“The Pirates’ Easter miracle became the catalyst for a season of late-inning comeback victories. In an article in the Sept. 17 issue of ‘The Saturday Evening Post,’ published just a week before the Pirates clinched the pennant, Myron Cope […]