'A Village Life: Poems' by Louise Gluck Dana Goodyear, Goodyear is a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the author of the poetry collection "Honey and Junk."
'Love and Summer: A Novel' by William Trevor Nicholas Delbanco, Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. His most recent novel is "The Count of Concord."
Keep your self-righteous fingers off my processed food Charlotte Allen and Charlotte Allen is the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus" and a contributing editor to the Minding the Campus website of the Manhattan Institute.
Texting, and talking, with your college freshman Amy Johnson, Amy Johnson, associate dean of student affairs at USC and an assistant professor of education, oversees orientation programs for new students at the university. A list of books parents of freshmen may find helpful is posted with this commentary at latimes.com.
Off to college Susan Straight, Susan Straight's most recent novel is "A Million Nightingales."
Oliphant on Ted Kennedy Joel Pett, Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. His work also appears in USA Today.