Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Boston cops and a Boston firefighter, burned Boston and surrounding communities in the early 1980s due to tax-cutting measures that caused layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters. Over 2 years, these fire buffs turned arsonists, torched 264 buildings, causing millions of dollars in damages and hundreds of injuries. The city was ablaze with n...

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life.This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: He opene...

Millions of Christians the world over pray to him every day. Few of those, however, know the true history of the patron saint of travelers. Few know that this gentle, pious individual was, in fact, a Cynocephalus or "Doghead"—in other words, a Werewolf. The Confessions of Saint Christopher: Werewolf will, with its publication, change that. Written as an autobiography of the man, unearthed during a recent archaeological dig in Egypt and translated by the fictitious David Mayhew, PhD, who pr...

When Rose O'Reilly White, a respected member of the small-town Deer Isle, Maine, community, died at age 97, she left many secrets, some monstrous and others magical, including her first love, a young woman who died in a tragic fire in 1942. This woman was her teacher; Rose was a teenager. Another secret was her later long involvement with an African-American woman. A third was her poisoning and killing a Catholic priest of many years ago after Rose learned he was a serial pedophile and wan...

"These poems achieve the beautiful, uncanny fusing that Miller defines as poetry itself."—Rick Barot, author of Moving the BonesA tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of both childhood and parenthood against the backdrop of global violence.From accomplished poet Wayne Miller comes a collection examining how an individual's story both hews to and defies larger socio-political narratives a...

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for PoetryA boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in We the Jury: the hard ones, the impossible ones.From an academic dinner party disturbing in its crassness and disaffection to a family struggling to ...

"A primer on big and small presses, literary magazines and all things digital, diversity, and economics . . . lively, timely, and indispensable." —Rob Spillman, editor and co-founder of Tin HouseGutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current combination...

One of the world’s leading neuroscientists teams up with an accomplished writer to debunk the popular left-brain/right-brain theory and offer an exciting new way of thinking about our minds.For the past fifty years, popular culture has led us to believe in the left-brain vs. right-brain theory of personality types. Right-brain people, we’ve been told, are artistic, intuitive, and thoughtful, while left-brain people tend to be more analytical, logical, and objective...

"In incisive, jolting poems of the here-and-now, he takes measure of debt as a legacy, and the repercussions of constant mass shootings . . . Miller's poems are beacons." — BooklistWinner of the UNT Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award for PoetryThe poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees, a world where the only inheritance a father ha...

"[A] wide-ranging, fascinating series of poems that [has] the city as character at its center, the city as a collective soul, the city as idea." — Sycamore ReviewA William Carlos Williams Award FinalistA Kansas City Star Top Book of the YearA Library Journal Top Winter Poetry PickA series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected ...

Winner of the National Poetry Series: "Filled with unusual juxtapositions and quick cuts that make the poems seem movielike, even trancelike." — Library JournalMothers masquerading as witches and sepulchral bellhops who reveal themselves to be fathers: In Justin Boening's debut collection of poems, selected for the National Poetry Series by Wayne Miller, nothing is as it seems.Peopled by figures both uncanny and tragic—lionesses who dance and cry, su...

Come with me on an adventure and a journey. Watch for amazing miracles along the way. I once read that everyone has six moments in their life when they were close to death and, most of the time, did not even know it. Your adventure will begin as you join me in the cockpit of a Mach 2 fighter jet as we set off on some harrowing missions and count to six or more. Your journey will take you from the deep poverty of the urban projects to a life of success and fulfillment.