Tom Batiuk spent several years as a middle school art teacher before creating the comic strip Funky Winkerbean in 1972. Originally a "gag-a-day" comic strip that portrayed life in high school, Funky
Samuel Shem's new novel, The Spirit of the Place, tells the story of an expatriate doctor called home to Columbia, New York, in the early 1980s to face his own history and that of the place. It is a
An anthology that addresses the rapidly changing nature of rural medicine in the United States"A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic
A revealing perspective on how Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with sufferingEmily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in brilliantly compact, memorab
