EXCLUSIVE: All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, David Giffels’ best-selling memoir, is being adapted into a half-hour series. Giffels, who wrote on MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head, ...

This Old House meets The Money Pit in journalist Giffels’s search for an affordable home. The Giffels family settles on a run-down, soon to be condemned early–20th-century mansion, but when he arrives ...

Today, Harper releases the paperback edition of All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, the well-received memoir from Akron’s David Giffels, the Difficult frontman, former Beacon ...

A native Ohioan who’s always lived in his home town of Akron, Giffels—an English professor and author of three books—has a unique perspective on Midwestern history. His latest book is a collection of ...

OK, So what did that entail? How do you dig deeper, and why jettison the post-Ohio days when they were at their most commercially successful? In the first edition, honestly, we kind of crammed ...

In 2000, as a columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal, David Giffels wrote an article imagining Akron 25 years in the future. As 2025 draws to a close, Giffels, now an author and creative writing ...

With their grand move to New York City imploding upon arrival and the discovery of an unexpected pregnancy, the pair find themselves retreating back to their Rust Belt hometown. David yearns to write ...