"For Diane Glancy, there are books that you open like a map. In-between Places is such a book: a collection of eleven essays unified by a common concern with landscape and its relation both to our spiritual life and to the craft of writing. Taking readers on a trip to New Mexico, a voyage across the sea of middle America, even a journey to China, Glancy has crafted a sustained meditation on the nature and workings of language, stories, and poems;...

"The Gull Bone Index contains 24 original short stories and flash fictions. This innovative collection features distinct postmodernist leanings with an emphasis on magical realism, fragmented narrative structures, and elements of absurdism. Stories include a group of people in perpetual free fall, a woman in love with a dissipating gaseous cloud, a man with vine-like outgrowths on his knee, and other bizarre situations. Beneath these flashy conceits...

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as blue caterpillars who smoke hookahs, cats whose grins remain after their heads have faded away, and a White Queen who lives backwards and remembers forwards? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books, and reveals a world...

Comprising the 102 great ideas of the Western canon that is the collection Great Books of the Western World, this syntopicon is an index to the locations of these great ideas in the texts of this collection.

"In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine Comedy: "In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself...