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 […]
The Strand Magazine reviews The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband by Gary Sosniecki, just one of the great titles from our True Crime series.
“The Kent State University Press True Crime Series is increasingly one of the most interesting collections of historical crimes, and I look forward to reading future […]
