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LILI WRIGHT An engaging memoir from the road updates the tradition of the picaresque traveler's tale. With unflinching honesty and refreshing wit, she captures the torn emotions, comic misfires, and inevitable trade-offs felt by young people everywhere. |
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BARBARA BEAN --Jacket Design by Laurie Dolphin |
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TOM CHIARELLA His first short story collection Foley's Luck garnered critical praise and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and Story. A winner of a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts award. |
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Characters need to speak to each other. Tom Chiarella shows you how. Whether it's an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, this book demonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original. |
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Tom Chiarella is the serious amateur, the humbled hacker, and the appreciative fan all rolled into one. Golfers everywhere will identify with his tales of low-grade frustration centered on a dimpled ball and a fairway filled with traps. But these affectionate, tee-in-cheek reminiscences and respectful rantings are balanced by memories of those sublime--and all to seldom--moments when the shot rises like a rocket, straight and true, carrying over a long stretch of treacherous real estate to settle at last onto the cool comfort of the green. |
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EUGENE GLORIA His collection of poems, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 1999 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books. Eugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism. Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry. Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism, worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery. Gauged by a keen eye, history is scrutinized, but through a playful exactness. These wonderful poems are trustworthy." --Yusef Komunyaaka --Published by Penguin Books (June 2000) --Book cover painting by Richard Diebenkorn |
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"Gloria gets better and better. His new work practices a profound care for the particulars of an individual life and the world at large, integrating the values of philosophical inquiry, reverie, and imagination. Poem after poem enacts a yearning for a wider and deeper sense of human belonging, using language that has all the luminosity and intensity of a spiritual pilgrimage, and the melancholy of racial, cultural, and spiritual alienation. These elegant, intelligent, and passionate poems hurt and reward us." --Li-Young Lee |
--Published by Penguin Books (March, 2006) --Book cover painting by El Greco |
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A third collection from an award-winning poet whose "gift is breathtaking" (Naomi Shihab Nye) The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan's sixteenth-century warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet's father's dementia; "Here on Earth" embraces post-racial America and the speaker's own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage, civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria's own fears of frailty and erasure. |
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WAYNE GLAUSSER Locke and Blake is a composite critical biography of two giants of 18th-century culture. Organized by topics of cultural significance for the period, it weaves together two lives, focusing on critical topics as opposed to biographical details, in order to illuminate ideas of Locke and Blake and the cultural contexts and transformations of the "period" they shared. Glausser begins each chapter by sketching a biographical connection between the two men, which in turn leads to a broader discussion of textual as well as cultural significance. From their shared experience of having had paintings stolen by a friend, for instance, Glausser details the two men's angry responses and then explores the larger social issue of private property at each end of the 18th century. --Published by University Press of Florida (February 1998) |
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Albert Hoffman first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. When he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips in 1943, he began a wave of experimentation that would reach its cultural heights in the academic and political mischief of Timothy Leary, the "acid tests" of the Merry Pranksters, and the musical experimentation of the late-1960s psychedelic era. In its 400 entries, this volume documents the influence of LSD on myriad aspects of culture, from psychiatry, religion, philosophy, arts, entertainment and sports, to commerce, science, politics and espionage. Coverage concentrates on the peak period of 1965 to 1969, but also includes LSD's early years and its later influence. | ||
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VANESSA D. DICKERSON "A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity." --Claudia Tate, Princeton University |
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In Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide, Vanessa D. Dickerson analyzes women's spirituality in a materialistic age by examining the supernatural fiction of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot and provides interpretive readings of familiar texts like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Other works by lesser-known authors are also examined. | --Publication Date: December 1, 1996 --Book review from Amazon.com |
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Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups. From the nineteenth-century black nationalist David Walker, who urged emigrating African Americans to turn to England, to the twentieth-century writer Maya Angelou, who recalls how those she knew in her childhood aspired to Victorian ideas of conduct, black Americans have consistently embraced Victorian England. | ISBN-10: 025203256X ISBN-13: 978-0252032561 --Publication Date: March 4, 2008 --Book review from Amazon.com |
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DEBORAH R. GEIS Ten scholars explore many aspects of Art Spiegelman's two-volume illustrated novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale, including Spiegelman's use of animal characters, the influence of other "comix" artists, the role of the mother and its relation to gender issues, the use of repeating images such as smoke and blood, Maus's place among Holocuast testimonials, it's appropriation of cinematic technique, its use of language and styles of dialect, and the implications of the work's critical and commercial success. --Edited by Deborah R. Geis, Associate Professor of English and author of Postmodern Theatric (k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American Drama ISBN-10: 0817354352 ISBN-13: 978-0817354350 --Publication Date: February 28, 2007 |
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The latest addition to the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an indispensable guide to Park's dramatic works, taking a close look at her major plays and placing them in context. Deborah R. Geis traces the evalution of Park's art from her earlist experimental pieces to the hugely popular Topdog/Underdog to her wide-ranging forays into fiction, music, and film. --Book cover photo by Stephanie Diani |
ISBN 978-0-472-06946-0 --Published by the Michigan Press Ann Arbor (2008 |
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RICK HILLIS In addition to his many published stories, including work in best Canadian Stories, Descant, Prism International, and the Alaska Quarterly Review, he is the author of the 1988 poetry collection, The Blue Machines of Night. "A wonderful book . . . in the rarified company of the best of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff, without imitating any of them . . . Five or six of these stories are worth the price of five or six entire collections of stories." --Russell Banks --University of Pittsburgh Press; First Edition edition (September 1990) |
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"Canadian Brash: new voices in fiction, drama and poetry brings together five of the smartest, funniest, toughest, most original and eccentric young writers from the small presses and alternate theatres of Canada. They want to talk to you: so listen." by Sally Clark, Lynn Crosbie, David Demehuk, Rick Hillis and Peter McGehee; Ed: Jason Sherman. "These wonderful Writers, though very different, all walk the crooked line that runs between farce and dead-on realism, where the truly awful turns abruptly inbto the ridiculous, so that we end up laughing through our tears of rage." --Russell Banks |
Book cover design: Paul Sych/Reactor Published by: Coach House Press, Toronto ISBN 0-88910-399-2 |
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The Coming of Winter by David Adams Richards, copyright 1974 with an Afterword by Rick Hillis, copyright 1992. Published by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto. General Editor: David Stains. Advisory Board: Alice Munro, W.H. New, and Guy Vanderhaeghe. |  |
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"The Blue Machines of Night is a book that looks straight on at the tough times of work, of love and of growing up on the Prairies--but doesn't forget their pleasures. Rick Hillis is a writer at home in the city and in the countryside, creating poetry that mixes realism with more than a touch of magic. The Blue Machines of Night is the first book of an already accomplished writer. Coteau Books is proud to present it as our Fiftieth Title." |
Published: Coteau Books, 1988 ISNB 0-919926-76-2 |
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HARRY J. BROWN "Injun Joe's Ghost" focuses on a significant figure in American history and culture that has, until now, remained on the periphery of academic discourse. Brown offers an in-depth discussion of many texts, including dime novels and Depression-era magazine fiction, that have been almost entirely neglected by scholars. This volume also covers texts such as the historical romances of the 1820s and the novels of the twenteith-century "Native American Renaissance" from a fresh perspective. Investigating a broad range of genres and subject over two hundred year of American writing, "Injun Joe's Ghost" will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies. --Publisher: University of Missouri --Published July 9, 2004 |
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Videogames challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. The book searches for specific ways to interpret videogames in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. It also shows how videogames have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. Brown discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding videogrames, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and growing cultural phenomenon. | Publisher: M.E.Sharpe (August 30, 2008) ISBN 0-8262-1530-0 |
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ISTVAN CSICSERY-RONAY This book contains all the articles on Phillip K. Dick published in Science-Fiction Studies through 1991--with the term "article" defined broadly enough to include notes, reviews, and letters to the editor. --Copyright 1992 by SF-TJ ISNB 0-9633169-1-5 |
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"Eye-opening, entertaining, and informative, Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams provides a fascinating, in-depth overview of Japanese prose science fiction and animated series and films, from prewar precursors to the most recent cutting-edge works." Edited by: Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, and Takayuki Tatsumi. |
--Published by University of Minnesota Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4974-7 |
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"Csicsery-Ronay brings together a wealth of material to demonstrate the tranformative power of the 'seven beauties.' Highly recommended for all readers interested in the ways in which science fiction relates to our past, present, and possible futures." --N. Katherine Haylels, author of electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. |  |
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"This is an excellent collection of one of world literature's greatest treasure troves: the science fiction short story in English. The stories form a kind of history of the genre, and are a continuous reading pleasure." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt. Edited by Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, Carol McGuirk. |
--Published by Weslyan University Press, 2010 ISBN; 978-0-8195-6955-4 |
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JOSEPH HEITHAUS "Rivers, Rails and Runways introduces the work of five distinctive voices from the Heartland. Rooted in Indiana, the poems capture the lure of the landscape and its relevance to each poet's journey. Pulsating throughout are the authors' personal histories and meditations. Notable for its thematic range, the anthology gains its strength from a juxtoposition of styles each elegant and attuned to the rhythms of everyday life." -- Caroline Kreiter-Foronda: Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2006-2008 --Published by San Francisco Bay Press (July 25, 2008) ISBN: 978-1-60461-007-9 |
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“The Airpoets have been writing postcard poems to each other for several years. AIRMAIL FROM THE AIRPOETS gives us a glimpse into their delightfully worded, sometimes personal travels with insightful observations and stunning images. I am drawn to the unique snapshots of the various localities represented in this collection. In an otherwise technologically driven twitter-tatter world, the Airpoets give us all hope that the arts of poetry and written correspondence are alive and well and will continue to thrive as long as that of individual passion." ~ Robin Denman, poet and letter carrier. ISBN: 9780982829516 |
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“Love and death are woven cunningly through Joseph Heithaus’s Poison Sonnets. At times the poems bring to mind those volumes of sketches and observations kept by 19th century naturalists, which themselves could surprise and startle with their complicated emotions, vivid frankness, and sense of immediacy. By turns mordant or elegiac, these poems are anything but predictable. And the sonnet as a form enjoys a fresh revival in this poet’s inventive and original renderings.” Mark Jarman, author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems |
ISBN: 9781936370603 David Robert Books (2012) cover design: Lynda Lowe |
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GREG SCHWIPPS "What This River Keeps bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck--in this case we're given the vivid portrayal of the common working men and women of rural Indiana juxtaposed against great forces, without pity or hope, but without true defeat, thought they may well lose all in the end. Schwipps also gives us, in full measure, the ancient father and son story, reinvented and made new; the complications of family; the friendship between men; the long tested love between married people; the discovery of the responsibilities of love; the love and care of the land; the love of a river; the keen life of the outdoors; the close attention to the earth in its seasons and myriad variousness. This is a very fine first novel. I read it compelled and fascinated to the last word" --Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong. --Book cover photo by Richard Fields --Published by Indiana University Press (2012) ISBN 978-0-253-00236-5 |
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Fishing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, prepares anglers for the ultimate fishing experience with useful knowledge and helpful tips for a successful fishing trip. Fishing continues to be one of the most popular pastimes, and with this 348 page reference book, anglers receive instruction on all aspects of fishing, from choosing the right gear to handling a caught fish. Greg Schwipps provides updated material in Fishing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, which includes information on the latest technology and more multispecies angling coverage. |
-- Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2011) ISBN 978-0-470-93068-7 |
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M. CHRIS WHITE Chris White's Two-Character Play is the center piece of this digital Explore Theatre textbook by Allyn and Bacon. |
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"The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2011 (Contemporary Playwright Series)" published by Smith & Kraus June 1, 2012 Thespian by Chris White. "The best 10-minute plays produced during the 2010-2011 theatrical season collected in one essential book!" --Amazon In Chris White's Thespian, when a Brooklyn construction worker decides to audition for a play, his best buddy helps him beef up his resume with some on-the-job training, on the subway into Manhattan. |
