As a GenXer in the 1980s, I grew up as a latch-key kid. TV, movies, and video games vied for my siblings and my attention as we ate junk food. Yet, I became a reader at an early age, majored in English post-high school, and became a teacher and writer. Something about my childhood encouraged me to become a life-long reader. What was it? SCAFFOLDS: A CHILDHOOD MEMOIR OF BOOKS is about the meaningful books I read when I was a kid and teenager. But the key to creating a life-long reader isn't just with books alone. SCAFFOLDS is for non-readers, new readers, and kid readers who grew up and never...

In this academic study, "MY KIND OF COMEDY: AN EXEGETICAL READING OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR AS MEDIEVAL DRAMA" deciphers Flannery O'Connor's fiction through the lens of medieval biblical exegesis and the English dramatists of the medieval miracle, mystery, and morality plays. "MY KIND OF COMEDY" peels away the grotesque dark comedy and tragedy in O'Connor's mid-twentieth century novels and short stories and reveals underneath a master of a unique Christian comedic tradition that goes back over 500 years.

A driver avoiding roadkill. A dragon's housekeeper. An android in love. A sister in a zombie invasion. Updated poetry and short stories from an overly educated Gen-Xer -- ROWENA'S WORLD: POEMS AND STORIES, SECOND EDITION.