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Michael Ruscoe

Michael Ruscoe is a writer, teacher, and musician living in Southern Connecticut. He is the author of the novel, "From the Stray Cat Files: You’ll Do Anything," the anthology, "Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature," and numerous educational texts. An instructor at Southern Connecticut State University, Ruscoe is also lead singer and songwriter for the indie band Save the Androids! In his spare time he earns karma for his next life by ardently following the New York Mets. The proud father of two children, Ruscoe also cares for and supports a pair of goldfish, who, in all honesty, are not very good conversationalists.

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Michael Ruscoe

Fiction

Christopher Moore Talks about Death, Demons and Secondhand Souls

From his first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), to his most recent, Secondhand Souls (William Morrow, August 25), Moore has spun tales featuring vampires, lust-lizards, a talking fruit bat, stupid angels, Shakespearean fools and Jesus Christ himself—all of which are not only played for plenty of laughs, but loads of social…
Michael Ruscoe
September 10, 2015
Nonfiction

How Can Libraries Survive in the Digital Age?

We treasure the feeling when we walk through the door that we’ve entered someplace awesome, the thrill of the hunt through the catalog for exactly what we’re looking for, the wonder of discovering new titles, and the rush of joy we experience when we see the book that we want…
Michael Ruscoe
August 27, 2015
Nonfiction

How Refrigeration Changed the Present and the Future

Sure, losing your computer or your television would be a bummer—you would have to resort to binge-watching your cat playing with a toy mouse for entertainment. No stove might lead to peanut butter sandwiches for dinner and if you didn’t have your washing machine, there’s always the laundromat. Heck, you…
Michael Ruscoe
August 27, 2015
Miscellany

14 Tips to Help You Ace College

Heading back to college (or worse, heading to college for the first time) is always something of a shock. It’s like heaping helpings of all the fun of school combined with the responsibility of adulthood—a combination that can overwhelm even those of us who spent many years trying to make…
Michael Ruscoe
August 26, 2015
Fiction

The Cold War Returns in the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

So there’s good news for those of you who liked your war cold: This week (which happens to mark the 54th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall), The Man From U.N.C.L.E hits the big screen. And while the movie—a remake of the popular 1960s TV show—may not be…
Michael Ruscoe
August 13, 2015
Fiction

Four Quartets Better Than the Fantastic Four

Friday marks the opening of Fantastic Four, the latest movie version of the publication that launched the Silver Age of Comics, which established Marvel as a major force in the medium, and began the decades-long run of the periodical that billed itself as “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine!” What made…
Michael Ruscoe
August 6, 2015