-The chase is better than the catch. We’ll see about that. I am feeling pretty good with my catch. The final book that completes my colle...

It is with pause that I begin writing about the introduction of the 1979 volume of BASS. Joyce Carol Oates causes me to settle back...

The Best American Short Stories 1979 ed. Joyce Carol Oates & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1979) xi Introduction - Joyce Caro...

Just as with the last volume, I’ll give you a little description of the book. It seems that I purchased this volume sometime in 2008. Prob...

Done – Finally! 15 months...or close to it. That’s how long it took me to get through this single volume. Reading and posting. ...

Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel – 1940 – Researching Mary Ann, and I have found once again how the past is drawing a dotted line to the prese...