Mark Rudman recently completed Sundays on the Phone, the fifth volume of his Rider Quintet. A selection from the five books, The Motel En Route to Life Out There, was released in 2008 by Salt Publishing. The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination was published this year by Northwestern University Press. He is currently translating Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. (updated 3/2009)

Rudman’s The Nowhere Steps was reviewed in AGNI 35 by Linda Orr.