“Barr’s imaginative, humorous story celebrates the sweetness of literary life, the freshness and promise of the newly printed page.” —Publishers Weekly
“A sweet-tempered, low-key story that has been justly compared to 84 Charing Cross Road.” —Kirkus Reviews
Joel Barr is a writer and artist whose poetry, fiction, reviews, and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals. His paintings and sculptures are in private and public collections. Chapters and Verse is his first novel.