Walter Cummins Books

Walter Cummins is an author whose work is defined by a unique realist perspective, often termed 'bent realism.' His short stories, featured across numerous collections and publications, explore human experiences with incisive precision. As a long-time editor of a literary journal, Cummins has delved deeply into the literary world, and his own writing reflects this profound understanding. His fiction offers an invitation to contemplate the complexities of everyday life through masterfully crafted narratives.

Our Literary Travels
210 pages
8 hours of reading
Our literary travels have taken us to Miami, Prague, the West of Ireland, Bruges/Brugge, Copenhagen, Broughton Castle, Bath, Haut-Koenigsbourg, Stockholm, Danish Prisons, Buonconvento, Paris, London, South Africa, Iceland, the Virgin Islands, and the Isle of Mull. Once there, we walked in the footsteps of Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Knut Hamsun, Halldór Laxness, Giovanni Boccaccio, William Burroughs, Georges Rodenbach, Heinrich Böll, Hyam Plutzik, Franz Kafka, and many others. These twenty essays reveal our discoveries.
Irresponsible and Maladjusted: Essays
222 pages
8 hours of reading
alled "irresponsible" and "maladjusted" by a former governor of New Jersey for an editorial he wrote while a Rutgers undergraduate, Walter Cummins has compiled essays that document a lifetime of misadventures that began before kindergarten and continued through graduate school and beyond into his teaching career.

Our Literary Travels

Irresponsible and Maladjusted: Essays