Verity Sayles ’11

Look At Flower, Robert Dunn’s third novel, charts the wanderings of Lucinda “Flower” Evans throughout the western half of the United States during the summer of 1967. Flower, as her nomenclature reveals, is …

Francisco Goldman
Say Her Name is an obviously autobiographical novel that is essentially about my wife Aura Estrada – about her life, about our life together, and about her death in 2007 at age 30, the …

Over Spring Break, I had the pleasure of reading Del Quentin Wilber’s fantastic first literary effort, Rawhide Down: the Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan.  The book is a blow-by-blow account of the day that changed …

With the advent of mind-blowing technology comes the advent of globalization. As a result it has become much easier to learn about and discover other countries and cultures. But no matter how cool your new …

I confess: I judge a book by its cover. Not by the cover design, per say, but by the title. Nothing excites me more than a brilliant title – Heart of Darkness, In Cold Blood, …

Kristen Droesch
The enchanting zine “A Commonplace Book of Pie” is the brainchild of Seattle-based writer and pie aficionado Kate Lebo. ACBOP, as Lebo affectionately terms it, is a beautifully constructed, hand bound, 26 page mini-book …

Filled with crime, gangsters, murder, and a host of the tragedies that make up day-to-day life, Barry Gifford’s Sad Stories of the Death of Kings is both a coming of age story and a picture …

What would you say about the people around you if you knew no one would hear it until long after you, and all those people, were dead? This year one of the top books on …