CHARLES TOWN — Meet local author John Michael Cummings as he discusses his new book of short stories, "The Spirit In My Shoes," published by the University of Wisconsin/Cornerstone Press.
As a writer born and raised where two rivers join, three states touch, and several American centuries commingle, I was fated to a creative life of complex metaphors.
Brooklyn: John Michael Cummings wants to know why Nat Turner is not well known and why contemporary society has failed to recognize “the significance of his achievement” (“The salute Nat Turner deserves,” op-ed, Feb. 6).