by Jeff Maisey | Sep 22, 2023 | News, News & Views
(Author Michael Pearson on the road in Ireland. Courtesy photo) By Tom Robotham Over the last three decades, Michael Pearson—former professor of creative writing and literature at Old Dominion University—has written seven books of nonfiction focusing on his two great...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 17, 2015 | News, News & Views
By Tom Robotham Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use?…They are for nothing but to inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. The great essayist Anne Fadiman once spoke for all true bibliophiles when she wrote, “the...