In “From Woodstock to Kent State” Press author Susan (Susie) J. Erenrich collects short stories from Woodstock attendees to speak on the connection between the iconic festival and the infamous events of May 4, 1970.
“All of the Woodstock singer-songwriters, attendees, and photographers presented in this guest column spent the fifty years since 1969 dedicating their […]

The Rumpus provides this in-depth interview with poet and author Ellene Glenn Moore speaking on her recent book How Blood Works, and much more.
“I first met Ellene Glenn Moore in 2013 when she was admitted to the MFA program at Florida International University where I teach. Through our years together I came to recognize Moore […]

The Pittsburgh Quarterly reviews The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns.
The Turnpike Rivalry is at its best when it unearths pithy quotes from both sides and lends insights into the teams’ historical trajectories and pivotal moments. Readers will gain important considerations of The Chief’s misguided but big-hearted willingness to hire friends as […]

Jon Venn reviews Kathleen O’Shea’s So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature for The Polyphony.
“This compilation, nevertheless, represents an essential intervention and contribution into a phenomenon. The choices (both of selection and of their organization) give a profound sense of the complexity and depth of the ‘migraine’ as a phenomenon, one that is […]

Joseph Beilein’s Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri is named one of “The Five Best Books on Civil War Guerrillas” by The Civil War Monitor.
“Through his extensive social and genealogical research into the kinship networks of Confederate bushwhackers, Beilein illustrates how the female relatives of men in the bush (wives, […]

Congratulations to Rona Simmons for winning the Military Writers Society of America’s 2021 Gold Medal Award for her excellent book The Other Veterans of WWII: Stories from Behind the Front Lines. 
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Don’t miss this informative interview with Ellene Glenn Moore, winner of the 2020 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection How Blood Works from the KSU Press.
Tune in to the Best Book Ever podcast.