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Our Literary Travels
(Paperback)
by Walter Cummins, Thomas E. Kennedy
Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2020 by Serving House Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-947175-23-5, ISBN: 1-947175-23-8

"Essays describing the authors' travels to the sites throughout the world where many authors lived and wrote."






From Pantyhose to Spandex
Writers on the Job Redux (Paperback or Softback)
by Walter Cummins, Thomas E. Kennedy
Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2017 by Serving House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9977797-7-6, ISBN: 0-9977797-7-2

"The authors of From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux take you on a tour through a single night in a taxi in Copenhagen while listening to Mahler¿s Ninth, through the ¿Melancholy House¿ of a maximum-security prison and ..."






The Girl with Red Hair
by Thomas E. Kennedy, Walter Cummins
Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2011 by Serving House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9826921-6-5, ISBN: 0-9826921-6-1

"Inspired by centuries of red hair lore, but especially the languorous photo on the front cover, nineteen authors created stories, poems, and an essay to reveal the special powers of the world’s redheads, the forces of their hold over the other 98 percent of humanity."






Runnin' Around
The Serving House Book of Infidelity
by Thomas E. Kennedy, Walter Cummins
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2014 by Serving House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9913281-2-3, ISBN: 0-9913281-2-4

"Infidelity anyone? Vicariously enjoy the unfaithfulness of twenty-four writers in this anthology, Runnin’ Around, subtitled The Serving House Book of Infidelity. The cover is a black- and-white Mark Hillringhouse photograph of an appropriately seedy motel advertising day-rates. However, the content is not seedy at all, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet Stephen Dunn, who leads off with a poem that originally appeared in the New Y ..."






The Book of Worst Meals
25 Authors Write about Terrible Culinary Experiences
by Walter Cummins, Thomas E. Kennedy
Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2010 by Serving House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9826921-2-7, ISBN: 0-9826921-2-9

"The Book of Worst Meals contains essays by 25 writers on their worst culinary experiences, tales of wretched dining in Paris, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, and throughout the UK, as well as disastrous holiday meals and the food of failed relationships."






Writers on the Job
Tales of the Non-Writing Life
by Thomas E. Kennedy, Walter Cummins
Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2008 by Hopewell Pubns Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-933435-21-3, ISBN: 1-933435-21-6

"MARK HILLRINGHOUSE's photography and writing have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The New Jersey Monthly, The Paris Review, and in many other journals, books, anthologies and magazines. He was the founding editor of the American Book Review, and a contributing editor for The New York Arts Journal. He has won three fellowships for poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and has twice been no ..."






Celebrating Thomas E. Kennedy Cummins, Walter; Ashley, Renée and Hillringhouse, Mark
by Walter Cummins, Thomas E. Kennedy
Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2021 by Serving House Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-947175-54-9, ISBN: 1-947175-54-8

"But just as much, he deserves celebration for being a valuable friend and a major contributor to world literature.This collection includes a Tom Kennedy story, an essay, and a translation; a joint memoir of a trip to Prague by Tom and Line ..."






The Literary Review(1st Edition)
Refrigerator Mothers
by Kelli Russell Agodon, Matt Bell, Minna Proctor, Rebecca Wolff, James Scudamore, Charles Wyatt, Buddhadeva Bose, Line-Maria Lang, Jessie Van Eerden, Ceridwen Morris, Jenny Offill, Jena Salon, The Literary Review, Anne Baney, Charles Berret, Renee Ashley, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Thomas Bonfiglio, Neil Boyack, Rebecca Chew, Vida Cross, Walter Cummins, Deborah Hall, Jody Handerson, Cassie Hay, Mark Hillringhouse, Thomas Kennedy, John King, Leslie Miller, Lisa Ortiz, Ankur Parikh, J. D. Reid, Susan Rothbard, Matt Ryan, Arunava Sinha, Karen Smyers, Paul-Victor Winters
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Fairleigh Dickinson University
ISBN-13: 978-0-9841607-7-8, ISBN: 0-9841607-7-9

"Read remarkable new fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversations about literature in the Winter 2011 issue of The Literary Review, publishing international work quarterly since 1957. Refrigerator Mothers looks at the completely incomprehensible psychological archetypes and staggered creative momentum of motherhood, as well as outdated theories of psychosis."






Remaking Florham
From Gilded Age Estate to Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University
by Walter Cummins, Carol Bere, Harry Keyishian, Eleanor Friedl
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Florham Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-578-42823-9, ISBN: 0-578-42823-7

"Unlike many of the great American estates that no longer exist, Florham--the historic country home of the Vanderbilt Twomblys--was transformed into a campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1958, Remaking Florham tells that story through words and pictures--from the purchase and conversion of the land and buildings to the experiences of students who attended in the initial years."






Death Cancer Madness Meaning
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2019 by Del Sol Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9998425-6-0, ISBN: 0-9998425-6-0

"These stark essays—both personal and analytic—explore confrontations with the deaths of family, friends, and pets, with malignancy, and with the psychosis of a spouse. The final essays consider how we, in our lives, attempt to make sense of such existential experiences."






Olmsted's Vision
The Landscape of Florham
by Walter Cummins, Linda Snyder, Edward Zimmermann
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Florham Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-10196-4, ISBN: 0-692-10196-9

"As significant as the mansion of a great Gilded Age estate like Florham, the New Jersey country home of Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, was its landscape. This book explores how that greatest of all landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted,visualized 1,200 acres of woodlands and scrub growth and swamps and transformed them into a magical country retreat for a family which could afford, and demanded, "the best of the best." The book incl ..."






Knowing Writers
Essays and Reviews
by Walter Cummins
192 Pages, Published 2017 by Del Sol Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-97404-9, ISBN: 0-692-97404-0

"Walter Cummins learned very early on that the writer he knew as a person, no matter how well, is not the writer whose words he read."






Florham
An American Treasure
by Carol Bere, Samuel Convissor, Walter Cummins, Mark Hillringhouse
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Friends Of Florham
ISBN-13: 978-0-578-18086-1, ISBN: 0-578-18086-3

"The Friends of Florham are pleased to announce the publication of FLORHAM: AN AMERICAN TREASURE: FROM THE GILDED AGE VANDERBILT-TWOMBLY ESTATE TO A CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, a pictorial history of the Vanderbilt-Twombly estate that has become Fairleigh Dickinson University's Florham Campus, illustrated with vintage photographs and a wonderful collection of color photographs taken especially for this book, which show the campus as ..."






Telling Stories
Old & New
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2015 by Del Sol Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-35240-3, ISBN: 0-692-35240-6

"The stories in this collection include a group first published in magazines three or four decades ago and another group whose magazine publications came in the past few years. Thus, they are divided into Old and New. Their range of subjects and approaches explore many varieties of storytelling."






Local Music
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2013 by Serving House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9858495-9-7, ISBN: 0-9858495-9-2

"A man who can’t bring himself to return to the apartment of his failing marriage, a woman spied on by a neighbor, a father terrified by the four-year- old next door, a boy living in a house haunted by his mother’s madness, a mother whose children are freezing in a heatless bedroom--the characters in the Stories of Local Music are unsettled in their own homes, their lives dissonant and discordant."






Habitat
Stories of Bent Realism
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2013 by Del Sol Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-85010-8, ISBN: 0-615-85010-3

"The worlds of these stories challenge the realities we think we inhabit, bending them away from a norm, some just a shade askew, others warped into a radical strangeness. All confound our expectations."






The Lost Ones
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 2012 by Del Sol Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-65900-8, ISBN: 0-615-65900-4

"Whether on a resort island, on a bus burrowing through the darkness, disoriented in European cities and villages, fearful at a lakeside table or on a mountain climb, bewildered in the crypt of the Vatican or in rooms and landscapes suddenly strange, the people in these sixteen stories don’t know where they are or who they are. They struggle to locate themselves in their lives."






Florham
The Lives of an American Estate
by Friends Of Florham, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Carol Bere, Samuel Convissor, Walter Cummins
Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2011 by Friends Of Florham
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-56743-3, ISBN: 0-615-56743-6

"This first photographic study of the history and “lives” of Florham encompasses a period of about 120 years: as the story of a legendary American estate created during the Gilded Age, as a family story of Vanderbilts and Twomblys, as the continuing story of the substantial growth and development of the current College at Florham of Fairleigh Dickinson University, and, finally, as a preservation story."






The End of the Circle(1st Edition)
Stories
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2010 by Egress Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-933435-32-9, ISBN: 1-933435-32-1

"The settings of these stories-whether the streets of London and Paris, the canals of Venice and Leiden, or the icy paths of the Swiss Alps-are solidly grounded. It's the people who are lost, struggling to understand where they truly are and break free to find their way home."






Local Music
Stories
by Walter Cummins
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2007 by Egress Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-933435-16-9, ISBN: 1-933435-16-X

"A man who can't bring himself to return to the apartment of his failing marriage, a woman spied upon by a neighbor, a father terrified by the four-year-old next door, a boy living in a house haunted by his mother's madness, a mother whose children are freezing in a heatless bedroom-the characters in the stories of Local Music are unsettled in their own homes, their lives dissonant and discordant."



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