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August 1, 2018

“Geezer Stories is about finding the happy in the heartache. It’s about forgiveness, letting go of the past, loving imperfectly. It’s about accepting our parents’ failings as well as our own.”

-from the publisher

Paradise Lost: A Primer

By Michael Cavanagh, edited by Scott Newstok
The Catholic University of America Press
256 pages
$29.95

“Michael Cavanagh brought a lifetime of experience to his fresh, accessible, and exacting book on Milton’s Paradise Lost. His primer is both perceptive and pleasurable, or, to use Horace’s words, dulce et utile, enjoyable and instructive.”

-Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Geezer Stories: The Care and Feeding of Old People