“How can you be bored? How many books have you written?”
—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s mother (Friday Black dedication)
"The art of teaching is almost as difficult
as the art of walking the tightrope."
—Philippe Petit, "Creativity: The Perfect Crime," Diane Rehm Show 14 May 2014
New and Forthcoming:
Reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary. Kent State UP (Feb 2024).
“One True Sentence from For Whom the Bell Tolls.” One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art. Edited by Mark Cirino & Michael Von Cannon. Boston: Godine (July 2022).