Howard Axelrod

Howard Axelrod is the author of The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude , named one of the best books of 2015 by Slate , the Chicago Tribune , and Entropy Magazine , and one of the best memoirs of 2015 by Library Journal . His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine , O Magazine , Politico , Salon , the Virginia Quarterly Review , the Boston Globe , and the Paris Review . He has taught at Harvard, the University of Arizona, and is currently the director of the...See more

Howard Axelrod is the author of The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude , named one of the best books of 2015 by Slate , the Chicago Tribune , and Entropy Magazine , and one of the best memoirs of 2015 by Library Journal . His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine , O Magazine , Politico , Salon , the Virginia Quarterly Review , the Boston Globe , and the Paris Review . He has taught at Harvard, the University of Arizona, and is currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at Loyola University in Chicago. Connect with him at howardaxelrod.com. See less