From the Desk of Jim Minick: The Tornado and the Flood

Jim Minick is the author or editor of seven books, including the award-winning Fire Is Your Water and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Poets and Writers, Oxford American, Orion, and Shenandoah. His latest … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Minick: The Tornado and the Flood

From the Desk of John Dechant: Paul Runyan–A Pro’s Pro

John Dechant is the author of several books, including Scoreless: Omaha Central, Creighton Prep, and Nebraska’s Greatest High School Football Game (Bison Books, 2016). His writing has appeared in a variety of magazines and the Golfer’s Journal. He is the president of the publishing … Continue reading From the Desk of John Dechant: Paul Runyan–A Pro’s Pro

From the Desk of Fredric Brandfon: A Policy of Silence; the Vatican and the Holocaust

Fredric Brandfon is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has published numerous articles on … Continue reading From the Desk of Fredric Brandfon: A Policy of Silence; the Vatican and the Holocaust

From the Desk of Michael K. Johnson: Speculative Visions of the American West

Michael K. Johnson is Professor of American literature at the University of Maine at Farmington. His books include Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) as well as two biographies, Can’t … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael K. Johnson: Speculative Visions of the American West