It included reviews of all genres, as well as literary interviews, focusing on work published by smaller presses.
The review was part of a "creative partnership" centered on the Ruminator Books bookstore at Macalester College, including the bookstore and its independent press, Ruminator Press.
In 1986 he launched the Hungry Mind Review as a critical literary journal, with founding editor Bart Schneider.
After soliciting ideas from its patrons, it became Ruminator Books, Review, and Press.
[5] The Ruminator Review continued for another year, but published its last issue in Fall 2005.