"[W]hat kind of intimacy can one have with a universe of 100 billion galaxies, each galaxy containing one trillion stars...?" asks astronomer and Boston Globe science columnist Raymo (365 Starry ...

In his seminal anthology “The Art of the Personal Essay,” editor Phillip Lopate introduces an essay on walking by Henry David Thoreau by telling us that the essay form itself “is akin to taking a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Chet Raymo author of "The Path: A One Mile Walk Through the Universe, will give a reading from his book at 7 p.m. on April 28 in the auditorium of Allen Hall on the University at ...

Chet Raymo’s “The Path” is a cannonball fired across the bow of the SS Reality TV, a wretched ship sailing on most of the major networks. Distilled from a lifetime’s experience, the book wrests back ...

The title "Climbing Brandon" conjures thoughts of a climber's journal chronicling the ascent of Mount Brandon, the wind-lashed and weatherworn peak the Celts believed was the last, lonely outpost ...

In his first novel since The Dork of Cork (1993), Raymo imagines the life of the patron saint of lovers, St. Valentine, about whom very little is known. Narrated by Julius Marius Favus, a gladiator ...