Category: making books

  • Reading in the Summer Workshop

    I was invited to read from Detours at the IPRC on Wednesday night, with other Burnside Review writers, celebrating the publication of Burnside Review 9.1. Great audience, great hosts–thank you, all! Nothing like an appreciative crowd and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon. And I came home ready to make stuff. Make books.   For those who’ve never been there, the…

  • So, what is a chapbook?

    My brother just asked. And before I fired off something snappy, I checked the hefty  Random House Dictionary of the English Language that I keep on the dictionary stand in my study. According to which, a chapbook is: 1. a small book or pamphlet of popular tales, ballads, etc., formerly hawked about by chapmen. 2.…