Alumni Bookshelf

Lewis, Debi. Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter Out of Failure to Thrive. Rowman and Littlefield , 2022. Print.

Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive tells the story of how Lewis made her way through mothering and feeding a sick child, aided by Lewis’ growing confidence in front of the stove. It’s about how she eventually saw her role as more than caretaker and fighter for her daughter’s health and how she had to redefine what mothering—and feeding—looked like once her daughter was well. This is the story of learning to feed a child who can’t seem to eat. It’s the story of growing love for food, a mirror for people who cook for fuel and those who cook for love; for those who see the miracle in the growing child and in the fresh peach; for matzo-ball lovers and the gluten-intolerant; and for parents who want to feed their kids without starving their souls.

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Boone, Joseph A. Furnace Creek . Black Spring Press Group, 2022. Print.

Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues—racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, class struggle—that galvanized the world in those decades.

A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer’s niece and nephew—these events set the stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England, Rome, and Paris—all before returning home to confront his life’s many expectations and disappointments.

Deftly combining elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery, Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery thriller, Furnace Creekleaps the frame of Dickens’ masterpiece to provide a contemporary meditation on the perils of desire, ambition, love, loss, and family.

Joseph Allen Boone is the author of three works of non-fiction, a musical adaptation of Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man, and a forthcoming short story collection. A finalist in four international competitions, Furnace Creek is his debut novel. The author is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, ACLS, and numerous other fellowships. An endowed professor at the University of Southern California, the author resides in Los Angeles.

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Kupfer, Peter. The Glassmaker’s Son. N.p., 2022. Print.

“The Glassmaker’s Son,” the first book by Peter Kupfer (Cooper), (BA English ’74), was recently published by Amsterdam Publishers to enthusiastic reviews. A blend of lyrical memoir and sober history, “Glassmaker” recounts Kupfer’s decades-long quest to uncover the world his father left behind in Nazi Germany. Along the way he makes a number of surprising discoveries about his family, who were important players in the Bavarian glassmaking industry. At heart, “Glassmaker” is about a search for identity — the identity of the author’s soft-spoken, inscrutable father and of the author himself. Menachem Kaiser, author of “Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure,” called “The Glassmaker’s Son” a stunning exploration of legacy. Michael Brenner, International President of the Leo Baeck Institute, lauded “Glassmaker” as “a moving account of a son in search of his father and the home from which his family was expelled. Peter Kupfer’s compelling story leads deep into the abyss of a small Bavarian town during Nazi Germany and into the labyrinth of the human soul.” “Glassmaker” is available now at https://mybook.to/tGmSPK1.

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Lennon , Lester Graves. Lynchings: Postcards from America. WordTech Editions, 2021. Print.

The stark poems of Lester Graves Lennon’s Lynchings: Postcards from America show, with documentary precision, the banality and the horror of lynching of Black Americans – and also the joys and songs of Black American life. This was, and is, America.

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Greenberg, A.J., and Aaron Greenberg. Recorded Time: How to Write the Future. bioGraph, 2020. Print.

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Knowles (Editor), Richard. King Lear: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Modern Language Association, 2020. Print.

Shakespeare’s King Lear is as significant in Western literature as the Oresteia, the Divine Comedy, and Don Quixote. Everything about it is unforgettable: Cordelia’s honest answers to her deluded and raging father, Regan and Goneril’s cruelty, Lear on the heath, the blinding of Gloucester, Edgar’s feigned madness, and the meaningful nonsense of the Fool. The subject of intense literary and cultural critical attention, the play exists in different versions and has been adapted and changed countless times. Richard Knowles’s edition, the product of more than twenty years of labor, records every important variant, discusses the critical controversies, provides the work’s sources, and guides readers through four hundred years of stage history and adaptations. A compendium of information and scholarship, this New Variorum Edition is a milestone and will be invaluable to scholars, directors, and actors for decades to come.

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Lehmann, Rebecca. Ringer: Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Print.

Ringer approaches womanhood from two directions: an examination of ways that women’s identities are tied to domestic spaces, like homes, cars, grocery stores, and daycare centers; and a consideration of physical, sexual, and political violence against women, both historically and in the present day. Lehmann’s poems look outward, and go beyond cataloguing trespasses against women by biting back against patriarchal systems of oppression, and against perpetrators of violence against women. Many poems in Ringer are ecopoetical, functioning in a “junk” or “sad” pastoral mode, inhabiting abandoned, forgotten, and sometimes impoverished landscapes of rural America.

Winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

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Johnson, Patrick. Gatekeeper. Milkweed, 2019. Print.

What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. “An emptying drain, driven by gravity.” And in Patrick Johnson’s Gatekeeper—selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—it is the place where connection is darkly transfigured by distance and power.

So we learn as Johnson’s speaker descends into his inferno, his Virgil a hacker for whom “nothing to stop him is reason enough to keep going,” his Beatrice the elusive Anon, another faceless user of the deep web. Here is unnameable horror—human trafficking, hitmen, terrorism recruitment. And here, too, is the lure of the beloved. But gone are the orderly circles of hell. Instead, Johnson’s map of the deep web is recursive and interrogatory, drawing inspiration and forms from the natural world and from science, as his speaker attempts to find a stable grasp on the complexities of this exhilarating and frightening digital world.

Spooky and spare, Gatekeeper is a striking debut collection and a suspenseful odyssey for these troubled times.

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Stein, Mark.“Après Le Blob.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

Mark Stein’s poetry has appeared in appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Madison Review, Confrontation, Nimrod, Moment, and elsewhere. He wrote the screenplay for Housesitter, starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, and plays that have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre, George Street Playhouse, L.A.’s Fountain Theatre, and most recently an award-winning production of Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys at Chicago’s Raven Theater. His non-fiction includes the New York Times Best-Seller, How the States Got Their Shapes, which became the basis for the History Channel series by the same name, American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why, and Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present.

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Koslow, Sally.“Another Side of Paradise.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver screen, is charismatic enough to attract the gorgeous Miss Graham, a woman who exposes the secrets of others while carefully guarding her own. Like Fitzgerald’s hero Jay Gatsby, Graham has meticulously constructed a life far removed from the poverty of her childhood in London’s slums. And like Gatsby, the onetime guttersnipe learned early how to use her charms to become a hardworking success; she is feted and feared by both the movie studios and their luminaries.

A notorious drunk famously married to the doomed Zelda, Fitzgerald fell hard for his “Shielah” (he never learned to spell her name), a shrewd yet softhearted woman—both a fool for love and nobody’s fool—who would stay with him and help revive his career until his tragic death three years later. Working from Sheilah’s memoirs, interviews, and letters, Sally Koslow revisits their scandalous love affair and Graham’s dramatic transformation in London, bringing Graham and Fitzgerald gloriously to life with the color, glitter, magic, and passion of 1930s Hollywood.

Wa Ngugi, Mukoma.“The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.

Calling it a major crisis in African literary criticism, Mukoma Wa Ngugi considers key questions around the misreading of African literature: Why did Chinua Achebe’s generation privilege African literature in English despite the early South African example? What are the costs of locating the start of Africa’s literary tradition in the wrong literary and historical period? What does it mean for the current generation of writers and scholars of African literature not to have an imaginative consciousness of their literary past?

While acknowledging the importance of Achebe’s generation in the African literary tradition, Mukoma Wa Ngugi challenges that narrowing of the identities and languages of the African novel and writer. In restoring the missing foundational literary period to the African literary tradition, he shows how early South African literature, in both aesthetics and politics, is in conversation with the literature of the African independence era and contemporary rooted transnational literatures.

This book will become a foundational text in African literary studies, as it raises questions about the very nature of African literature and criticism. It will be essential reading for scholars of African literary studies as well as general readers seeking a greater understanding of African literary history and the ways in which critical consensus can be manufactured and rewarded at the expense of a larger and historical literary tradition.

Teigen, Jeremy M.“Why Veterans Run: Military Service in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2016.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

The assumptions that military service helps candidates attract votes—while lacking it harms a candidate’s chances-has been an article of faith since the electoral coronation of George Washington in 1789. Perhaps the most compelling fact driving the perception that military service helps win votes is the large number of veterans who have held public office. Some candidates even exaggerate their military service to persuade voters. However, sufficient counter-examples undermine the idea that military veterans enjoy an advantage when seeking political office.

In Why Veterans Run, Jeremy Teigen explains the tendency of parties to elevate those with armed forces experience to run for high office. He describes the veteran candidate phenomenon by examining the related factors and patterns, showing why different eras have more former generals running and why the number of veterans in election cycles varies. With both quantitative and qualitative analysis, Why Veterans Run investigates each postwar era in U.S. electoral history and elaborates why so many veterans run for office. Teigen also reveals how election outcomes with veteran candidates illuminate the relationship between the military and civilian spheres as well as the preferences of the American electorate.

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Creighton, Joanne V.“The Educational Odyssey of a Woman College President.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

Early in her tenure as president of Mount Holyoke College, Joanne V. Creighton faced crises as students staged protests and occupied academic buildings; the alumnae association threatened a revolt; and a distinguished professor became the subject of a major scandal. Yet Creighton weathered each storm, serving for nearly fifteen years in office and shepherding the college through a notable revitalization.

In her autobiography, The Educational Odyssey of a Woman College President, Creighton situates her tenure at Mount Holyoke within a life and career that have traversed breathtaking changes in higher education and social life. Having held multiple roles in academia spanning undergraduate, professor, and president, Creighton served at small colleges and large public universities and experienced the dramatic changes facing women across the academy. From her girlhood in Wisconsin to the presidency of a storied women’s college, she bears witness to the forces that have reshaped higher education for women and continues to advocate for the liberal arts and sciences.

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Myers, Tim J.“Down in the White of the Tree: Spiritual Poems.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

The marriage of poetry and spirituality is of course an ancient one, and in Down in the White of the Tree, Tim J. Myers works in that tradition. But his isn’t conventional religious poetry, some of which, he believes, is either inadequate for genuine spiritual seeking or antithetical to it. Myers works from the larger tradition, in which Rilke speaks of God as the profoundly distant Center on whose outermost periphery we reside—and from which Hafiz can assert that the universe is “just a tambourine” for us to play against our “warm thigh[s].” These are poems of doubt, of faith, and of a profound love for the radiance we can encounter in the world.

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Etter, Jon.“A Dreadful Fairy Book.” 2018: n. pag. Print.

READERS, BEWARE: WHAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS IS A DREADFUL FAIRY BOOK.

Whatever expectations you have of delightful and whimsical fairies are sure to be disappointed. There are certainly fairies, but most are not proper fairies. Our heroine is, perhaps, the worst offender. Shade is on a quest, albeit with rather questionable companions, to find a place her outré self can call home. A place of companionship, comfort, and, most importantly, positively filled with books.

“This chubby brown protagonist full of flaws and wit and heart is quite welcome. For bibliophiles (and bibliothecaphiles) and all those who step expectantly into mushroom rings.” —Kirkus Reviews

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, Claire Schmidt.“If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers.” 2017: n. pag. Print.

America is fascinated by prisons and prison culture, but few Americans understand what it is like to work in corrections. English alumna Claire Schmidt (2003), whose extended family includes three generations of Wisconsin prison workers, introduces readers to penitentiary officers and staff as they share stories, debate the role of corrections in American racial politics and social justice, and talk about the important function of humor in their jobs.

In a state that locks up a disproportionate number of men and women of color, white prison workers occupy a complicated social position as representatives of institutional authority and bearers of social stigma. The job, by turns dangerous, dull, or dehumanizing, is aided by a quick wit, comedic timing, and verbal agility. The men and women who do this work rely on storytelling, practical jokes, and sarcasm to bond with each other, build flexible relationships with inmates, and create personal identities that work in and out of prison. Schmidt shows how this humorous occupational culture both upholds and undermines prisons as social institutions.

Issues of power and race, as well as sex and gender, infuse Schmidt’s groundbreaking analysis, and she also engages with current scholarship about identity, occupational folklore, and family narrative. This eye-opening, provocative book reveals the invisible culture, beliefs, and aesthetics embedded in workplace humor.

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Stein, Mark.“Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present.” 2017: n. pag. Print.

From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein’s Vice Capades examines the nation’s relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that our views of vice are formed not merely by morals but by power.

While laws against nude dancing have become less restrictive, laws restricting sexual harassment have been enacted. While marijuana is no longer illegal everywhere, restrictive laws have been enacted against cigarettes. Stein examines this nation’s inconsistent moral compass and how the powers-that-be in each era determine what is or is not deemed a vice. From the Puritans who founded Massachusetts with unyielding, biblically based laws to those modern purveyors of morality who currently campaign against video game violence, Vice Capades looks at the American history we all know from a fresh and exciting perspective and shows how vice has shaped our nation, sometimes without us even knowing it.

Hansen, Kathleen A., and Nora Paul.“Future-Proofing the News: Preserving the First Draft of History.” 2017: n. pag. Print.

News coverage is often described as the “first draft of history.” From the publication in 1690 of the first American newspaper, Publick Occurrences, to the latest tweet, news has been disseminated to inform its audience about what is going on in the world. But the preservation of news content has had its technological, legal, and organizational challenges. Over the centuries, as new means of finding, producing, and distributing news were developed, the methods used to ensure future generations’ access changed, and new challenges for news content preservation arose. This book covers the history of news preservation (or lack thereof), the decisions that helped ensure (or doom) its preservation, and the unique preservation issues that each new form of media brought.
All but one copy of Publick Occurrences were destroyed by decree. The wood-pulp based newsprint used for later newspapers crumbled to dust. Early microfilm disintegrates to acid and decades of microfilmed newspapers have already dissolved in their storage drawers. Early radio and television newscasts were rarely captured and when they were, the technological formats for accessing the tapes are long superseded. Sounds and images stored on audio and videotapes fade and become unreadable. The early years of web publication by news organizations were lost by changes in publishing platforms and a false security that everything on the Internet lives forever.
In 50 or 100 years, what will we be able to retrieve from today’s news output? How will we tell the story of this time and place? Will we have better access to news produced in 1816 than news produced in 2016? These are some of the questions Future-Proofing the News aims to answer.

Ott (Co-editor), Mark P., and Mark Cirino (Co-editor).“Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives.” 2017: n. pag. Print.

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway’s Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy.

The collection addresses Hemingway’s many Italys—the terrain and people he encountered during his life and the country he transposed into his fiction. Contributors analyze Hemingway’s Italian works, including A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, lesser-known short stories, fables, and even a previously unpublished Hemingway sketch, “Torcello Piece.” The essays provide fresh insights on Hemingway’s Italian life, career, and imagination.

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, Daniel B. Botkin.“25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

For decades, environmental scientist and conservationist Daniel Botkin has studied the world around us. He has traveled the globe observing nature and the human impact on the environment, and now he has collected his keen observations into this accessible and informative book.

25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment explores the many myths circulating in both ecological and political discussions. These myths often drive policy and opinion, and Botkin is here to set the record straight. What may seem like an environmentally conscious action on one hand may very well be bringing about the unnatural destruction of habitats and ecosystems.

Topics include:
– Is life really that fragile?
– Is consensus science?
– Are recent weather patterns truly proof of long term weather change?
– Are wildfires really all that bad?
– Are predators absolutely necessary to control populations of other species?

In a world awash in misleading or false information about the environment, Daniel Botkin has written a straightforward and concise examination of the biggest myths hurting conservation efforts today.

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, Eric D. Meyer.“Sacrificing Sacrifice to Self-Sacrifice: The Sublimation of Sacrificial Violence in Western Indo-European Cultures.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

Karl Jaspers describes The Axial Period (800-200 BCE) as a world-historical turning point in the spiritual evolution of the human species, characterized by the rise of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Pythagoreanism, and the Hebrew prophets, without precisely identifying what defines this world-historical period. What defines The Axial Period, I argue with Jaspers, is the sublimation of sacrifice, through which the sacrificial killing of domestic animals, characteristic of primitive religions, is sublimated into the self-sacrificial disciplines of prayer, meditation, and asceticism. This sublimation of sacrifice involves a curiously duplicitous gesture, through which the sacred violence of primitive sacrifice is simultaneously sublimated into the self-sacrificial disciplines of the Western Indo-European religions, and demoted to the strictly physical violence of modern warfare, stripped of its sacred origins. I argue, against Jaspers, that there is no world-historical discontinuity between primitive and modern sacrifice, but rather a continuous trajectory of the sublimation of sacrifice in Western Indo-European cultures. The Brahminic sacred texts, the Rig Veda and the Brahmanas, for example, describe a sophisticated sacrificial ritualism that more effectively sublimates sacrificial violence than do Western European modern cultures, in which un-sacrificial violence continues to escalate, to challenge the survival of the contemporary world.

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, Celena Kusch.“Literary Analysis: The Basics.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

Literary Analysis: The Basics offers an overview of the aims and strategies of literary analysis that apply to any kind of text in any language from any period of time. This book outlines the methodologies employed by today’s experts—from academic scholars to book reviewers—and offers readers new ways to approach the literature they love. Both general and academic readers are introduced to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, literary periods, and contexts that enhance and enrich the personal and subjective experience of literature from ancient myths to today’s young adult fiction bestsellers.

By applying analytical strategies to examples from poetry, film, classical masterpieces, graphic novels, and fan fiction, Literary Analysis: The Basics makes literary analysis more accessible and highlights the benefits of analysis in helping readers recognize the insights embodied within literature. Each chapter offers a set of analytical frameworks that allow readers to dig deeply into texts of all genres and formats. Beginning with the words on the page, the book enables readers to expand their inquiry by taking into account issues of form, context, criticism, and theory. Finally, the book offers readers strategies for writing literary analysis both in academic and everyday settings like print and online book reviews.

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, Carl J. Rasmussen.“Monstrous Fictions: Reflections on John Calvin in a Time of Culture War.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

The Reformer John Calvin has influenced America in a formative way. Calvin remains respected as a theologian to whose work intellectuals on both the right and left appeal. In the nineteen-nineties, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) formed a politically influential ecumenical coalition to oppose abortion and change the culture. Its ecumenism of the trenches influenced the administration of George W. Bush and continues to influence religious elements in the Tea Party. Evangelicals in the coalition presume to speak for Calvin. This book provides a counter argument.

Carl J. Rasmussen (PhD 1978) discusses Karl Barth’s interpretation of Calvin and its relevance for the church struggle against the Third Reich. Based on his analysis of Calvin, he provides a defense of gay marriage and the right to terminate a pregnancy, as well as an analysis of religious freedom. Calvin would reject ECT’s theology of virtue, conscience and natural law. But he would affirm its ecumenism as a possible path out of culture war.

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, Tim J. Myers.“Full of Empty.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

Publishers Weekly said of Full of Empty that “Lush illustrations, a culturally diverse setting, a devoted set of parents, and the suggestion that time and togetherness can help heal emotional wounds give the story a strong impact.” Kirkus asserted that “…young listeners will enjoy the fairy-tale aspect, the appealing pictures, and the satisfying ending…”

Tim Myers, UW Madison English alum, is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and senior lecturer at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. His ebook “Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood” (Familius) won the inaugural Ben Franklin Digital Award and is out in a print version. He recently placed a full-length poetry collection, “Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body,” with BlazeVox Press. His children’s books have won recognition from The New York Times, NPR, the Smithsonian, Nickelodeon, and others. He’s published over 120 poems, won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike, has a poetry chapbook out (“That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant”), won a major prize in science fiction, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and has published much other fiction and non-fiction for children, adolescents, and adults. He also won the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction, and the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year award.

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, Cody Walker.“The Self-Styled No-Child.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

UW English alum Cody Walker (1990) is the author of Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser Press, 2008) and the co-editor of Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan Press, 2013). His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Parnassus, Slate, Poetry Northwest, The Hecht Prize Anthology, and The Best American Poetry (2007 and 2015); his essays have appeared online in The New Yorker and The Kenyon Review. He lives with his family in Ann Arbor, where he teaches English at the University of Michigan.

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, Ralph La Rosa.“Ghost Trees.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

Ralph La Rosa’s poems are rich with vibrant imagery and skillfully measured meter. Each poem, like living portraits, resonates with a sense of life that can only come from the artistic mastery of emotion and intellect. These poems revisit the past with sheer honesty, delicately balancing his sweet melancholy with whimsical hope.La Rosa occasionally recalls his bruised ego from childhood, not with self-pity, but with an understanding of how those moments of doubt shapes one’s character. From his father’s endeavors to provide for his family to his mother’s sly chiding, La Rosa ironically finds wholeness. Whether it was football or music, he reminds us of how a thoughtless comment can have a lasting effect. In a crisp moment of clarity, he brings us back to a time, when working in a record shop, he realized that the quality of a jazz musician was not measured by his masterful ability to squeeze out a series of colorful notes, but by the color of the artist’s skin. An American Literature scion, La Rosa brings into focus his love of the transcendentalists, recalling Thoreau and Emerson. Better still, he keeps alive the ghosts of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through imagined dialogues. These poems are a delight.
—John Orozco, author of Delano and Eddie and the Inmates

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Salli, Donna.“A Notion of Pelicans.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

On a windblown bluff above Lake Superior sits a fieldstone church. Founded one hundred years ago, after a puzzling encounter with a flock of pelicans left Lavinia with a curious notion, Pelican Church still draws inquisitive souls to its pews with the legend that one solitary bird still circles overhead, watching. These people have notions of their own—a pastor’s wife wants a honeymoon, a professor has harebrained ideas, a business owner is in everyone’s face, a young actress can do or be anything onstage yet struggles with every real-life decision—and their stories, tucked away for years, unfold and glide onto the pages of Donna Salli’s intimate debut novel. The people of Pelican Church are oh-so-human and expose their mix of shifting hopes and obsessions, protected infidelities, and notions gone awry as one October day swings from sunup to sundown under the watchful gaze of a single pelican.

In the very best way, Donna Salli’s A Notion of Pelicans is a book to settle into. There is a storm on the way, but from the beautiful opening scene then into the voices of compelling, complicated and strong women connected to the Pelican Church, this book unfolds elegantly into the depths of marriage, family, history, secrets, violence and love. Every page is a joy to read.

W. Scott Olsen, Author of A Moment with Strangers

Pajevic, Tanja.“The Secret Life of Grief: A Memoir.” 2016: n. pag. Print.

When Tanja Pajevic’s mother died, she felt alone and unsupported. She didn’t want her grief to sideline her, as it had when her father died. This time around, she wanted to grieve consciously.

But how?

In a society that no longer has clear rituals or traditions around grief, Tanja set out to create her own. As the weeks and months passed, she delved into her anger, rage and sorrow, as well as explored the complicated issue of forgiveness. Along the way, she explored the rise and fall of communal mourning in the United States, as well as its roots in the current medical model.

Tanja also examined ingrained family patterns she was ready to release–all while raising two young children and dealing with a husband facing his own challenges. Throughout, she reassessed and reconfigured her life, reconnected with her true self and found redemption and healing, as well as joy.

Written in fierce, honest prose, The Secret Life of Grief is a book for anyone who isn’t willing to “pull it together” and act like nothing’s wrong. The Secret Life of Grief is a book for those of us who believe in the transformative power of loss. And it’s a book for those of us who believe in love.

The Secret Life of Grief: A Memoir has been named a silver winner in the 2018 Nautilus Book Awards, an award celebrating books that inspire and connect people’s lives as individuals, communities and global citizens.

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, Kelly Cherry.“Twelve Women in a Country Called America.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

Kelly Cherry’s tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the American South. These are women struggling to find their way through the everyday workings of life while also navigating the maze of self. From a young woman’s nightmare piano lesson to an elderly woman’s luminous last breath, Twelve Women in a Country Called America takes readers on a journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enlightening.

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, Kelly Cherry.“A Kelly Cherry Reader.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

In Fred Chappell’s introduction to A Kelly Cherry Reader, he writes, “Cherry is a flambeau example of the extremely conscious artist, a writer who meditates ceaselessly upon the problems and possibilities of the poem, the novel, the short story and the essay. She ponders what she has done and how she has done it; she thinks about the approaches and techniques she has employed, and she labors to extend and expand them. This kind of effort is not common to all writers, many of whom will write this year pretty much the same novel they wrote year before last, the same poem they wrote twenty years ago.”

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, Mai Maddisson.“Estonia’s War Children: A Fractured Generation: Their First Five Years in Their New Lands.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

In this selection of memoirs compiled by Mai Maddisson, UW alum Merike Tamm (M.A. ’69, Ph.D., ’76) recounts her experience as a child born in a refugee camp in Germany, to Estonian parents, in 1946. She arrived in the US with her family in 1951, and went on to write a dissertation on Jane Austen under the direction of Joe Wiesenfarth.

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, Janet Ruth Heller.“The Passover Surprise.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

Lisa and her little brother Jon enjoy collecting stamps. But when their father holds a contest to decide which child will get a new large stamp album, Lisa has to solve a difficult problem. This middle-grade chapter book takes place around 1960 and includes details about Jewish soldiers’ experiences during World War II and early stages of the Civil Rights Movement. The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015) also portrays a Jewish family celebrating Sabbath and Passover. Parents and teachers can use the Discussion Guide to discuss issues raised in this book, such as sibling rivalry, bullying, discrimination, and Jewish traditions, with their children and students.

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(Co-editor), Trent Hergenrader, Michael Dean Clark (Co-editor), and Joseph Rein (Co-editor).“Creative Writing in the Digital Age: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the instructor’s technical expertise.

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, Jennifer Marsch and Stephanie Trevino.“Oh, The Places You’ll Pump!.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

“You’ll marvel at all of the places you’ll go/ Where you can have fun and maintain your milk flow . . .” Nursing a newborn can be one of life’s great pleasures, and we all know that “breast is best”—but that doesn’t mean breastfeeding is always easy! Many moms must head back to work while their babies are young. Others face challenges nursing, for a variety of reasons, from day one. Enter the breast pump and this encouraging anthem! Oh, the Places You’ll Pump! motivates moms to use their pumps to achieve their breastfeeding goals—and does so with a humor and lightness you’d expect from mamas who have been there. This delightful journey through the world of pumping is paired with additional space for recording Mom and Baby’s breastfeeding milestones—making it the ultimate keepsake for any new mama!

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, Thomas Waite.“Trident Code.” 2015: n. pag. Print.

Ruthless cyberhackers seize a US nuclear submarine, training its most powerful weapon on a target so unusual, yet so vulnerable, that a successful strike could change the face of the earth for millions of years. With the world held hostage, former NSA operative Lana Elkins must join forces with a mysterious computer mastermind—who might be working with the enemy—to avert this unprecedented Armageddon. Intrigue, power, and blackmail force Lana to fight on all fronts—land, sea, air, and in cyberspace—to prevent the worst catastrophe in human history.

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, Kelly Cherry.“A Kind of Dream.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

A Kind of Dream is the culminating book in a trilogy Kelly Cherry began with My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers and The Society of Friends. Each book stands alone, but together they take us on a Dantean journey from midlife to Paradise. Cherry’s prose is hallmarked by lyric grace, sly wit, the energy of her intelligence, and profound compassion for and understanding of her characters. Set in Madison, Wisconsin, A Kind of Dream reveals a surprisingly wide view of the world and the authority of someone who has mastered her art. It is a book to experience and to reflect upon.

Selected by the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Reviewers as a “Best Book for General Audiences.”

Kelly Cherry is the author of twenty-four books of fiction (long and short), poetry, memoir, essay, and criticism. She has also published ten chapbooks and translations of two classical dramas. Her most recent titles are Twelve Women in a Country Called America: Stories, Physics for Poets (chapbook), A Kelly Cherry Reader (stories, novel excerpts, memoir, essay, and eight poems), and A Kind of Dream(interlinked stories), selected by Library Journal as a Best Indie book. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South and has won three PEN/Syndicated Fiction awards. Her story collection The Society of Friends (which, she says, has nothing to do with the Society of Friends) received the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for Short Fiction for the best collection published in 1999. For her poetry she received the inaugural Hanes Prize for a body of work. Other awards are listed on her Wikipedia page. Her new and selected poems, titled Hazard and Prospect, was a finalist for the Poets’ Award. Cherry says, “I write because I have ideas that can be realized only by writing. Luckily, I love to write. And I love to hear from those who read my work and respond to the heart of what I write.”

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, Janet Ruth Heller.“Exodus.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

The poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) are modern re-interpretations and psychological explorations of the people and events in the Bible. A central metaphor is the exodus from Egypt, which represents the journeys that people take: trying new experiences, leaving a bad relationship, finding a new job, taking risks. Many of the poems are dramatic monologues from the perspective of a character in the Scriptures.

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, Tiffany Eberle Kriner.“The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

In scripture, Jesus promises a future that potentially infuses all texts: “my words will not pass away” (Matt 24:35). This book argues that texts—even literary texts—, have an eschatology, too, a part in God’s purpose for the cosmos. They, with all creation, move toward participation in the new creation, in the Trinity’s expanding, creative love. This eschatological future for texts impacts how we understand meaning making, from the level of semiology to that of hermeneutics.

This book tells the story of how readers participate in the future of the word, the eschatology of texts. If texts have a future in the kingdom of God, then readers’ engagements with them—everything from preservation and utterance to translation, criticism, and call and response—can cultivate those futures in the love of the Trinity. Kriner explores how the fallenness and failures of texts, alongside readers’ own failures, while seeming to challenge the future of the word, ultimately point to reading as a posture of reconciliation, in which reader and text meet in the Maranatha of all text.

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, Robert Lee.“Living With Heart Disease: Denial, Clarity, Gratitude.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

In this often humorous account of one man’s encounter with heart trouble, the author moves from denial, to acceptance, to triumph over his fears of heart disease.

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, Susan Naramore Maher.“Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

Maher’s Deep Map Country gives readers the first book-length study of the deep-map nonfiction of the Great Plains region, featuring writers as diverse as Julene Bair, Sharon Butala, Loren Eiseley, Don Gayton, Linda Hasselstrom, William Least Heat-Moon, John Janovy Jr., John McPhee, Kathleen Norris, and Wallace Stegner. Deep Map Country examines the many layers of storytelling woven into their essays: the deep time of geology and evolutionary biology; the cultural history of indigenous and settlement communities; the personal stories of encounters with this expansive terrain; the political and industrial stories that have affected the original biome and Plains economies; and the spiritual dimensions of the physical environment that press on everyday realities.

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, T.J. Myers.“Rude Dude’s Guide to Food.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

Mongols actually did put raw meat under their saddles to “tenderize” it! And fortune cookies–gasp–don’t come from China! My “Rude Dude’s Book of Food” is just out, a humorous, anecdote-filled history of popular foods (hamburgers, chocolate, etc.) tied to the Common Core and intended for upper-elementary/ middle-school students.

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, Susan Resneck Pierce.“Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

Traditional shared governance operations are typically time-consuming, process-laden, and slow to respond to the internal and external forces acting upon modern educational institutions. Higher education is facing increasing political and economic pressure, and senior administration frequently needs the flexibility to make institutional decisions quickly. Using recent public scandals as examples, Governance Reconsidered illustrates how the tension between the need for timely decisions and action versus the importance of mission and academic quality is creating a dramatic systemic problem.

The book also addresses the brand new challenges that affect higher education governance, including MOOCs, online learning, and rising questions about value and cost. Campus leaders must work together effectively to boost higher education, and Governance Reconsidered contains the questions and answers integral to implementing effective governance.

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, Thomas Waite.“Lethal Code.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

America’s worst nightmare has come true: a “cyber–Pearl Harbor” attack by unknown terrorists has crippled the nation’s power grid—and brought the land of the free to its knees. As widespread panic and violence ravage the country, its ruthless captors issue their ultimatums…and vow an apocalyptic reckoning.

A defenseless nation scrambles to fight an invisible invasion. Chief among America’s last line of defense is Lana Elkins, head of a major cyber-security company—and former top NSA operative—who returns to her roots to spearhead the Agency’s frantic efforts to combat the enemy’s onslaught on its own terms. While she and her superiors take action to infiltrate a terrorist hotbed overseas, much closer to home ruthless jihadists with a nuclear bomb hijack a busload of schoolchildren—including Lana’s daughter—and race toward a rendezvous with Armageddon in America’s greatest city.

With Lethal Code, Thomas Waite raises the international techno-thriller to dangerously exciting levels—introducing a valiant new action heroine, and initiating a series that brings a harrowing new edge of realism to sensational speculative fiction.

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(Co-editor), Jay Paul Gates.“Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

The ten essays in this volume engage legal, literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to investigate the role of punishment in Anglo-Saxon society. Three dominant themes emerge in the collection. First is the shift from a culture of retributive feud to a system of top-down punishment, in which penalties were imposed by an authority figure responsible for keeping the peace. Second is the use of spectacular punishment to enhance royal standing, as Anglo-Saxon kings sought to centralize and legitimize their power. Third is the intersection of secular punishment and penitential practice, as Christian authorities tempered penalties for material crime with concern for the souls of the condemned. Together, these studies demonstrate that in Anglo-Saxon England, capital and corporal punishments were considered necessary, legitimate, and righteous methods of social control.

Jay Paul Gates is Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in The City University of New York.

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Stein, Mark.“American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why.” 2014: n. pag. Print.

In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political panics from the Salem witch hunt to present-day vehemence over issues such as Latino immigration, gay marriage, and the construction of mosques, Stein closely examines just what it is that causes us as a nation to overreact in the face of widespread and potentially profound change. This book also devotes chapters to African Americans, Native Americans, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Chinese and Japanese peoples, Communists, Capitalists, women, and a highly turbulent but largely forgotten panic over Freemasons. Striking similarities in these diverse episodes are revealed in primary documents Stein has unearthed, in which statements from the past could easily be mistaken for statements today. As these similarities come to light, Stein reveals why some people become panicked over particular issues when others do not.

, Christopher Laing.“The Young Oaks | Book One: The Golden Span.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Praise for The Young Oaks from Kirkus Reviews:

In a family saga that spans the 20th century, Laing provides an expansive portrait of American life on the Mississippi in this first of two volumes.

Willy McGregor, ignoring his father’s advice, lies about his age to fight in World War I. But when he comes out the other side, aged and traumatized by the things he’s seen and done, he finds himself lost, without a home. It’s this setup—a broken warrior/poet in a shaken world—that gives the novel its potency. Much of Willy’s story is familiar: He finds a new home, puts down roots, starts a family, and meets the many challenges of these and other milestones. But through it all, Willy’s bone-deep knowledge of how frail happiness is shows through, even as he demonstrates a heroic tenacity for keeping its warmth alive. Willy’s idealized vision of contentment can’t last, but illness and loss make it shine brighter. Of course, the cycle of life doesn’t affect Willy alone, and the rich cast of secondary characters gradually changes as Willy’s children come of age and the focus of the story shifts. Eventually, Willy’s grandson, Dan, takes over the narration, and the story grows more and more distant from the old, blessed years as the book approaches the modern age. The story unfolds as if told by a fireside, sometimes breezing over years in an instant and at others, lingering over the details of singular moments and memories (“a husband smoking his pipe and reading the paper while his wife knitted, their eyes meeting for a moment, a warm connection, a glimpse of their palpable love”). As the first installment in a duology, the story doesn’t wrap up at the end, despite the book’s length, but the overall theme of the pursuit of happiness could scarcely be stronger. Even if there were no second volume to further chart this family’s peaks and valleys through the years, its genuine understanding of life would make it a stirring success.

An excellent story of the American dream that manages a remarkable combination of breadth and depth.

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, Ralph La Rosa.“Sonnet Stanzas.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

His youth inspired by a Danforth Leadership Award, Ralph La Rosa later earned Ford Foundation Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Senior Lectureship. He was educated at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin—Madison (PhD 1969). A teaching career included appointments at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, UCLA, Tbilisi State University in the Soviet Georgian Republic (the first extensive appointment offered outside Moscow), and Northwestern University—Evanston. After his assignment to the USSR, he was also invited to lecture in Budapest and Munich. Unfortunately, he was unable to accept the positions. More recently, he taught at several colleges and universities in California, mostly at Los Angeles Mission College. Ralph’s publications include general essays and critical prose on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. His work for film includes two scripts on Sam Rodia’s Towers in Watts, California: one sold to KCET Los Angeles and another partially supported by the California Council for the Humanities and aired by KCET. Ralph also co-coordinated (with Robert Rees), Chinese/American Writers conferences held at UCLA and Beijing University. He now focuses on poetry and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His formal poetry has appeared in print and online journals, including First Things, Raintown Review, Light Quarterly, Snakeskin, The Lyric, The Chimaera, The Flea, Italian Americana, Voices in Italian Americana, Yale Angler’s Journal, 14 by 14, Soundzine, and Umbrella.

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, Susan Elbe.“The Map of What Happened.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Winner of The Backwaters Press Book Prize 2012, and the 2014 Julie Suk Prize from Jacar Press for the best book published by an independent publisher in 2013.

Rain from “a bruised-pear summer sky,” a river’s “cold silver zipper,” and the “green, sexy smell of water” fill Susan Elbe’s sensuous poems in The Map of What Happened. Perhaps, because these poems are silky attempts to defy “rain, which erases everything” and to recover images of the past in order to recast them. Even a woman hemming dresses for money, maybe an aunt or mother or neighbor, glints with the watery image of a “fan of silver pins glittering between her lips/ as she knelt on the cold linoleum.” “I’m the one,” Elbe says, “whose laugh falls from the bridge,/ the last to run for cover/ when a hard rain pushes us toward home.” Whether the water is memory or tears or erotic danger, it fills these poems, vividly presenting moments of intimate, often exquisite, recovery.
–Diane Wakoski

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, Melissa Ford.“Measure of Love.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

It may be her second time getting married, but Rachel Goldman is definitely navigating a sticky relationship with her former—and soon-to-be-again—mother-in-law. Plus she’s in a tug of war with the editor of her upcoming book on divorce who is begging her to keep her happy new relationship with her ex, Adam, on the down low. How can Rachel do that when her society-obsessed mother-in-law is eager to get a featured story in the wedding section of the New York Times?

Throw in a sister-in-law-to-be who’s navigating her own upcoming nuptials as well as a friend who not only doesn’t want to get married, but is possibly having an affair. Rachel finds herself with too many pots simmering on a very familiar stove.

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, Rebecca Kanner.“Sinners and the Sea.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Sinners and the Sea is Rebecca Kanner’s debut novel. It was published by Howard Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, in April 2013. Rebecca is a Twin Cities native and holds a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing has won an Associated Writing Programs Award, a Loft mentorship Award and a 2012/2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. Her personal essay, “Safety,” is listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011. Her stories have been published in numerous journals including The Kenyon Review and The Cincinnati Review.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press calls Sinners and the Sea “riveting,” and Publishers Weekly says, “Debut novelist Kanner brings to life the nameless wife of Noah in a deeply imagined midrashic interpretation of the biblical story of the flood. Noah’s unnamed wife is a powerful, memorable character.” Kirkus Reviews agrees, “[Noah’s wife] proves her strength and character as she tries to protect her family… from the outside forces that threaten. Kanner successfully undertakes a formidable task retelling a familiar religious story through the eyes of Noah’s wife. The narrative’s well-articulated, evenly balanced and stimulating…”

Along with other authors including Anita Diamant, Michael Cunningham, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks and Ron Hansen, Rebecca will be featured in the upcoming title Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists.

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(Co-editor), John Klima.“Glitter & Mayhem.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Your hosts are the Hugo Award-winning editors John Klima (Electric Velocipede) and Lynne M. Thomas (Apex Magazine), and the Hugo-nominated editor Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine). Join glittery authors Christopher Barzak (One for Sorrow) and Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium) on the dance floor, drink cocktails with Maria Dahvana Headley (Queen of Kings: A Novel of Cleopatra, the Vampire) and Tim Pratt (Marla Mason series), and skate with Seanan McGuire (InCryptid series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian series), and Maurice Broaddus (The Knights of Breton Court series). The fantastic Amber Benson gets the party started with her floor-rattling introduction (Calliope Reaper-Jones series). We’re waiting.

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, Emily Lupton.“The Joy of Fishes.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Mara Daniels is a physicist doing cutting-edge research into the nature of reality at the University of Chicago. She’s an astronomer. She’s an amateur student of Chinese philosophy. And she’s still recovering from last summer’s car crash that killed Benjamin Zhu, her fiancé. It’s a slow process; she can walk without a cane now, but she still suffers from migraines, nightmares, and seeing Zhu’s ghost everywhere she goes. The novella The Joy of Fishes follows her through the day on which these threads begin to unravel.

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, T.J. Myers.“Dear Beast Loveliness: Poems of the Body.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

On one hand, we all know the body with absolute intimacy; on the other, our perceptions and values vary astonishingly. Then there’s the ancient drama of fulfilling bodily needs and urges, with the concomitant struggle in how we think and feel about such things. It’s this fascination that led me to write these poems.

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, T.J. Myers.“Down at the Dino Wash Deluxe.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

How can a dinosaur stay dirt-free in the city? Welcome to the Dino Wash Deluxe, where dinos go to get soaped, scrubbed, and spotlessly clean. The Dino Wash handles it all: scales, spikes, wings, even frills and horns. BUT WAIT! There’s a new customer in town: a T. rex with sharp teeth, long claws, and a mighty mean personality. What will happen when T. rex shows up? Filled with dinosaur facts and fun, this hilarious picture book reminds children that tough guys might not be as scary as they seem.

Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, and storyteller for children and adults. His children’s books have earned a Smithsonian Notable Book award and a NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book award, among other honors. Basho and the Fox was a New York Times bestseller. Visit him at TimMyersStorySong.com. Tim lives in Santa Clara, CA.

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, Karen Paterson.“Move With Balance®: Healthy Aging Activities for Brain and Body.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

This is not a “workout” program in the usual sense with muscle-strengthening and limbering exercises as the primary goal. The activities combine coordinated movement with cognitive skills. For example, we move, but while we move we read, or recognize shapes, or recite a poem. The underlying principle: challenge the brain and body simultaneously with some sensory-motor activity, repeat until the challenge becomes easier or even automatic, then up the stakes by repeating the activity at a higher level.Once you buy the book, you have access to the videos. Along with full color photos of the exercises, the book explains the movements in depth, the why and the how. The videos give you a quick visual, and in combination with the book, should make it easy for you to learn the movements. The book is user friendly, light-hearted and playful. Move With Balance®, based on the most current research in brain plasticity, vision training, and kinesiology, uses movement to help prevent falls and enhance cognitive functions.

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(Co-editor), Julie Christoph, John M. Duffy, Eli Goldblatt, Nelson Graff, Rebecca S. Nowacek, and Bryan Trabold.“Literacy, Economy, and Power.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Literacy, Economy, and Power expands Brandt’s vision, exploring the relevance of her theoretical framework as it relates to literacy practices in a variety of current and historical contexts, as well as in literacy’s expanding and global future. Bringing together scholars from rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies, the book offers thirteen engrossing essays that extend and challenge Brandt’s commentary on the dynamics between literacy and power. The essays cover many topics, including the editor of the first Native American newspaper, the role of a native Hawaiian in bringing literacy to his home islands, the influence of convents and academies on nineteenth-century literacy, and the future of globalized digital literacies. Contributors include Julie Nelson Christoph, Ellen Cushman, Kim Donehower, Anne Ruggles Gere, Eli Goldblatt, Harvey J. Graff, Gail E. Hawisher, Bruce Horner, David A. Jolliffe, Rhea Estelle Lathan, Min-Zhan Lu, Robyn Lyons-Robinson, Carol Mattingly, Beverly J. Moss, Paul Prior, Cynthia L. Selfe, Michael W. Smith, and Morris Young. Literacy, Economy, and Power also features an introduction exploring the scholarly impact of Brandt’s work, written by Department alumni and editors John Duffy, Julie Nelson Christoph, Eli Goldblatt, Nelson Graff, Rebecca Nowacek, and Bryan Trabold. An invaluable tool for literacy studies at the graduate or professional level, Literacy, Economy, and Power provides readers with a wide-ranging view of the work being done in literacy studies today and points to ways researchers might approach the study of literacy in the future.

, John Cullen Gruesser.“Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe’s works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in part from turn-of-the-20th-century notions about gender, race and nationality), and it concludes with a discussion of contemporary mystery series with inner-city settings that address black male and female heroism.

(Co-editor), Lincoln Konkle.“Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

The authors of these essays aim to contextualize Wilder’s work historically and to show that Wilder’s handling of questions of religion, American identity, gender, and ethics should vault him into the ranks of major American novelists. Specifically, this anthology includes groundbreaking work on the application of queer theory to Our Town; on Wilder’s screenplay for the Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt; and on Wilder’s adaptations of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem, and his own The Long Christmas Dinner.

, Elizabeth C. Miller.“Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

In response, they purposely reduced the scale of print by appealing to a small, counter-cultural audience. “Slow print,” like “slow food” today, actively resisted industrial production and the commercialization of new domains of life. Drawing on under-studied periodicals and archives, this book uncovers a largely forgotten literary-political context. It looks at the extensive debate within the radical press over how to situate radical values within an evolving media ecology, debates that engaged some of the most famous writers of the era (William Morris and George Bernard Shaw), a host of lesser-known figures (theosophical socialist and birth control reformer Annie Besant, gay rights pioneer Edward Carpenter, and proto-modernist editor Alfred Orage), and countless anonymous others.

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, Matthew Stratton.“The Politics of Irony in American Modernism.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of “irony” inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others.

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(Editor), Sharon Rose Wilson.“Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction.” 2013: n. pag. Print.

Two of the three sections focus on Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood. Examining especially the twentieth century, including second-wave feminism, writers from Tunisia, Turkey, Italy, Korea, the US, and England give both an historical and a global perspective. Utopian and dystopian elements are explored in the Nobel-Prize-winning Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor, the little-known Mara and Dann, and The Cleft; and new perspectives are offered on Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

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, Al Norman.“Occupy Wal-Mart.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

Occupy Walmart exposes the “1% corporation,” with its leaders who have amassed enormous wealth by exploiting the 99% who manufacture its products and buy its merchandise. This is UW English alum Al Norman’s third publication tackling Wal-Mart.

According to Walmart, 200 million people enter their stores every week to shop—and most of those entering are part of the 99%. The power to change the unfair global economy begins in our hometowns. Where better to start than with Walmart—the most ubiquitous symbol of what has gone awry in corporate America today?

Author Al Norman is the foremost anti-Walmart activist in the U.S., helping hundreds of citizen groups fight the establishment of Walmarts in their hometowns. He has appeared on 60 Minutes and been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Al is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and maintains a blog on his website, Sprawl-Busters.com. Al is the author of Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart! (1999) and The Case Against Wal-Mart (2004).

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, Christopher Chapp.“Religious Rhetoric and American Politics: The Endurance of Civil Religion in Electoral Campaigns.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

In Religious Rhetoric and American Politics, Christopher B. Chapp shows that Americans often make political choices because they identify with a “civil religion,” not because they think of themselves as cultural warriors. Chapp examines the role of religious political rhetoric in American elections by analyzing both how political elites use religious language and how voters respond to different expressions of religion in the public sphere. Chapp analyzes the content and context of political speeches and draws on survey data, historical evidence, and controlled experiments to evaluate how citizens respond to religious stumping. Effective religious rhetoric, he finds, is characterized by two factors—emotive cues and invocations of collective identity—and these factors regularly shape the outcomes of American presidential elections and the dynamics of political representation. While we tend to think that certain issues (e.g., abortion) are invoked to appeal to specific religious constituencies who vote solely on such issues, Chapp shows that religious rhetoric is often more encompassing and less issue-specific. He concludes that voter identification with an American civic religion remains a driving force in American elections, despite its potentially divisive undercurrents.

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, Susan Elbe.“Where Good Swimmers Drown.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

“From the land of small towns, undertakers, ‘burnt-out stars’ and ‘chrome-dented light,’ Elbe makes a generous poetry that is both elegy and ode to the treasured and forgotten.”
– Dorianne Laux

“To read Elbe’s poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.”
– Jesse Lee Kercheval

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, Gordon Grigsby.“Dawn Night Fall.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

In poem after piercing poem—“The Light Here,” “An Ocean Sound,” “Nancy’s Sandwich Shop Heightened Consciousness”—Grigsby weaves our intense human moments of love, sorrow, or joy into the beauty and grandeur of our indifferent earth. The art of his vision is unique and invaluable.
—Julian Markels, author of The Marxian Imagination

Like James Wright before him, Gordon Grigsby is an essential Mid-Western poet, a hard-scrabbled farmer of words, a steel-worker tending to the furnaces of an imagination that flares in darkness: “the praised madness that trembles the air.” The geography of Ohio, the names of its vanished Indian tribes, the smell of a dead child and the poisoned rain, are here given their full measure of terrible beauty.
—Michael Salcman, author of The Clock Made of Confetti and The Enemy of Good Is Better

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, Morgan Harlow.“Midwest Ritual Burning.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

This American debut is an impressive bridge across the Atlantic, fusing US avant-gardism and the British pastoral tradition.

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, Mark R. Liebenow.“Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what’s inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In Mountains of Light, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Liebenow takes us deep into the heart of this wilderness, introducing us to its grand and subtle marvels—and to the observations, reflections, and insights its scenery evokes. Acting as our guide, Liebenow calls on the spirit and legacy of naturalist John Muir to rediscover nature and recover his own exuberance for life. Whether celebrating the giant sequoias, massive granite mountains, and wild, untamed rivers, or losing himself on an unmarked trail, Liebenow is always accompanied by thoughts of his wife of eighteen years, whose recent and sudden death tempers and informs his journey.

Interwoven with his experiences are the stories of the Native Americans who lived in the valley for thousands of years and of the early settlers who followed. Melding documentary with introspection, environmental reportage with a search for meaning, Liebenow’s work draws on the lore of geology, botany, biology, and history to show how each aspect of the environment is connected to the rest.

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(Co-editor), Susan Naramore Maher.“Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing. The contributing scholars apply a variety of critical approaches, including ecocriticism and place-oriented studies ranging across prairie, urban, and international contexts. Contributors explore such diverse topics as Eiseley’s use of anthropomorphism and Jungian concepts and examine how his work was informed by synecdoche. Long overdue, this collection demonstrates Eiseley’s continuing relevance as both a skilled literary craftsman and a profound thinker about the human place in the natural world.

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, T.J. Myers.“Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

By recounting personal experiences, offering honest, sincere opinions, and including quizzes for fatherly-preparedness, Tim Myers emphasizes the importance of fatherly contribution and influence in the home. He shows fathers that they are not only vital to home life, but that fatherhood also brings great joy into men’s lives, not to mention a surprising amount of plain old fun. In addition, Myers details the essential role of fathers, and the very real (and sometimes frustrating) transition into taking an active role in home life. Poignant, funny, and inspiring, Glad to be Dad is perfect for both aspiring fathers and seasoned veterans.

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, Andy Selsberg.“You Are Good at Things: A Checklist.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

This book is a celebration of all your secret skills and unheralded abilities. It calls attention to the way you’re able to give your kids names that will never appear on key chains at gift shops, and cheers your talent for wrapping presents using very little tape. In your own way, you’re a master, and the world should know it. Because let’s face it: YOU ARE GOOD AT THINGS!

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, Jenny Siklos.“Work on Your Handwriting: A Workbook for Adult Learners of English.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

The page-by-page layout with write-in exercises gives students practice of letter, word and sentence formation. It also offers practical guidance and practice to help students to improve their punctuation. Work on your Handwriting is particularly suitable for adult learners of English whose native language has a non-Roman alphabet, such as Arabic or Mandarin.

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, Chari Towne.“A River Again: The Story of the Schuylkill River Project.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

In a short time, the Schuylkill went from being considered waters of “uncommon purity” to being this country’s dirtiest river. That distinction resulted in the Schuylkill River becoming the focus of a precedent-setting river cleanup effort from 1947 to 1951. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hired a team of engineers to free the Schuylkill from the millions of tons of coal sediment that had filled its bed and raised its floodplain. The Schuylkill River Project Engineers dredged the river and trapped sediment in desilting pools, the kind of practices that river restorations are undertaken to undo today. But at the end of the project, the Schuylkill emerged “A River Again.”

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, Thomas Waite.“Terminal Value.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

Terminal Value is an intense thriller that provides an insider’s look into the excitement of a technology start-up, the anticipated riches of an initial public offering, the gut-wrenching murder of a friend, and the dark side of corporate America.

Thomas Waite was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His debut novel, Terminal Value, was critically praised and reached #1 in Contemporary Books, #1 in Contemporary Fiction, #1 Paid in the Kindle Store, and #1 in Kindle Store Suspense at Amazon.

Waite is the board director of, and an advisor to, technology companies in the online security, media, data analytics, cloud computing, mobile, social intelligence, and information technology businesses. His non-fiction work has been published in a number of publications, including The New York Times and the Harvard Business Review.

Waite received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was selected by the English Department to participate in an international study program at the University of Oxford. He now lives in Boston.

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, Eli Goldblatt.“Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political development through undergraduate and postgraduate experiences alongside the social imperatives of the era. He explores his decision to leave medical school after he realized that he could not compartmentalize work and creative life or follow in his surgeon father’s footsteps. A brief first marriage rearranged his understanding of gender and sexuality, and a job teaching in an innercity school initiated him into racial politics. Literacy became a dramatic social reality when he witnessed the start of the national literacy campaign in postrevolutionary Nicaragua and spent two months finding his bearings while writing poetry in Mexico City.

Goldblatt presents a thoughtful and exquisitely crafted narrative of his life to illustrate that literacy exists at the intersection of individual and social life and is practiced in relationship to others. While the concept of literacy autobiography is a common assignment in undergraduate and graduate writing courses, few books model the exercise. Writing Home helps fill that void and, with Goldblatt’s emphasis on “out of school” literacy, fosters an understanding of literacy as a social practice.

, John Cullen Gruesser.“The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

Focusing on authors who explicitly connect the empire abroad and the empire at home (James Weldon Johnson, Sutton Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others), Gruesser examines U.S. black participation in, support for, and resistance to expansion. Race consistently trumped empire for African American writers, who adopted positions based on the effects they believed expansion would have on blacks at home. Given the complexity of the debates over empire and rapidity with which events in the Caribbean and the Pacific changed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it should come as no surprise that these authors often did not maintain fixed positions on imperialism. Their stances depended on several factors, including the foreign location, the presence or absence of African American soldiers within a particular text, the stage of the author’s career, and a given text’s relationship to specific generic and literary traditions. No matter what their disposition was toward imperialism, the fact of U.S. expansion allowed and in many cases compelled black writers to grapple with empire. They often used texts about expansion to address the situation facing blacks at home during a period in which their citizenship rights, and their very existence, were increasingly in jeopardy.

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, Janelle A. Schwartz.“Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

Offering the worm as an archetypal figure to recast the evolution of a literary order alongside questions of taxonomy from 1740 to 1820 and on, Schwartz unearths Romanticism as a rich humus of natural historical investigation and literary creation.

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, Sharon Rose Wilson.“Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women’s Fiction.” 2012: n. pag. Print.

Although the writers represent several different nationalities and racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, they employ a type of postcolonial literature that urges readers and societies beyond colonization. Wilson argues that the use of myths and fairy tales generally convey characters’ transformation from alienation and symbolic amputation to greater consciousness, community, and wholeness, and it is in and through story that characters construct a hybrid way of establishing themselves in the larger world.

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, Karen D. Goodman.“Music Therapy Education and Training.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

Written by a senior clinician and educator in order to meet the needs of prospective and current educators, clinical supervisors and students of music therapy, this book provides an overview and detailed commentary about all aspects of professional and advanced education and training in music therapy.

As we consider the ongoing challenges in the United States and throughout the world to develop curriculum that is appropriate to various degree levels and changing professional entry standards, this book will prove an important resource. With a foreword by Dr. Suzanne Hanser and appendices which include a listing and analysis of sixty years of books published in music therapy, this book is an invaluable addition to the music therapy literature.

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(Editor), John Klima.“Happily Ever After.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land of Story from shore to shore, climbing massive mountains of books and delving deep into lush, literary forests, gathering together thirty-three of the best re-tellings of fairy tales he could find. Not just any fairy tales, mind you, but tantalizing tales from some of the biggest names in today’s fantastic fiction, authors like Gregory Maguire, Susanna Clarke, Charles de Lint, Holly Black, Alethea Kontis, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Paul Di Filippo, Gregory Frost, and Nancy Kress. But these stories alone weren’t enough to satisfy the Editor, so the Editor ventured further, into the dangerous cave of the fearsome Bill Willingham, and emerged intact with a magnificent introduction, to tie the collection together. And the inhabitants of Story—from the Kings and Queens relaxing in their castles to the peasants toiling in the fields, from the fey folk flitting about the forests to the trolls lurking under bridges and the giants in the hills—read the anthology, and enjoyed it. And they all lived… Happily Ever After.

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, Susan Resneck Pierce.“On Being Presidential: A Guide for College and University Leaders.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

In this insightful book, former university president Susan Resneck Pierce offers a guide for academic presidents, aspiring presidents, trustees, senior administrators, faculty leaders, and others who need a clear understanding of what presidents do and the larger issues facing institutions, in turn helping them understand their various roles and responsibilities in order to best serve their institutions.

Although academic leadership has always been demanding, in recent decades it has become more so. As the cost of higher education escalates, so do demands from parents and students. On Being Presidential is filled with specific recommendations that show how presidents and boards can effectively work together and how presidents can enhance their relationships with both internal and external constituencies. The book addresses the reality that a successful president must raise money, manage the institution’s financial and human resources, advance its mission, and ensure its future. Pierce also describes the challenges of becoming a public figure and offers suggestions for how presidents and their spouses or partners can craft private lives for themselves while living in a “fishbowl.”

With candor and wisdom, Susan Resneck Pierce brings to light the myriad of opportunities and challenges of being presidential.

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(Co-editor), J. Hellerman.“The Development of Interactional Competence.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

Rather than treating participants in L2 interactions as deficient speakers, the book begins with the assumption that those who interact using a second language possess interactional competencies. The studies set out to identify what these competencies are and how they change across time. By doing so, they address some of the difficult and yet unresolved issues that arise when it comes to comparing actions or practices across different moments in time.

, anupama jain.“How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

By interrogating familiar American stories in the context of more supposedly exotic narratives, jain illuminates complexities of belonging that also reveal South Asians’ anxieties about belonging, (trans)nationalism, and processes of cultural interpenetration. jain argues that these stories transform as well as reflect cultural processes, and she shows just how aspects of identity—gender, sexual, class, ethnic, national—are shaped by South Asians’ accommodation of and resistance to mainstream American culture.

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, Patrick J. Murphy.“Unriddling the Exeter Riddles.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

In this book, Patrick Murphy takes an innovative approach, arguing that in order to understand the Riddles more fully, we must step back from the individual puzzles and consider the group in light of the textual and oral traditions from which they emerged. He offers fresh insights into the nature of the Exeter Riddles’ complexity, their intellectual foundations, and their lively use of metaphor.

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, Rebecca S. Nowacek.“Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer As a Rhetorical Act (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric).” 2011: n. pag. Print.

While many studies of transfer are longitudinal, with data collected over several years, Nowacek’s is synchronous, a rich cross-section of the writing and classroom discussions produced by a team-taught learning community—three professors and eighteen students enrolled in a one-semester general education interdisciplinary humanities seminar that consisted of three linked courses in history, literature, and religious studies. With extensive field notes, carefully selected student and teacher self-reports in the form of interviews and focus groups, and thorough examinations of recorded classroom discussions, student papers with professor comments, and student notebooks, Nowacek presents a nuanced and engaging analysis that outlines how transfer is not simply a cognitive act but a rhetorical one that involves both seeing connections and presenting them to the instructors who are institutionally positioned to recognize and value them.

Considering the challenges facing instructors teaching for transfer and the transfer of writing-related knowledge, Nowacek develops and outlines a new theoretical framework and methodological model of transfer and illustrates the practical implications through case studies and other classroom examples. She proposes transfer is best understood as an act of recontextualization, and she builds on this premise throughout the book by drawing from previous work in cognitive psychology, activity theory, and rhetorical genre theory, as well as her own analyses of student work.

This focused examination complements existing longitudinal studies and will help readers better understand not only the opportunities and challenges confronting students as they work to become agents of integration but also the challenges facing instructors as they seek to support that student work.

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, Jesse O. Taylor, with Daniel C. Taylor and Carl E. Taylor.“Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

Explores how development and conservation are related to complexity theory and the concepts of emergence.
Frames a process in which change efforts can be taken to scale, both in scope of action and in rising sophistication.

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, Jesse Wolfe.“Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy.” 2011: n. pag. Print.

On the one hand, they doubted the ‘naturalness’ of Victorian ideas about ‘maleness’ and ‘femaleness,’ but on the other hand they understood the value of monogamy and marriage and the value of these institutions to what Freud called the ‘middle-class social order.’ This ambivalence was a primary source of the writers’ aesthetic strength; Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence and others brought the paradoxes of modern intimacy to life, wrestling with them on the page. Combining literary criticism with forays into philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology and the avant-garde art of Vienna, this volume offers a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between historical modernity and artistic modernism.

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(Editor), Ann Fox Chandonnet.“Write Quick: War and a Woman’s Life in Letters, 1835-1867.” 2010: n. pag. Print.

Amid the gathering clouds of war, far from the nation’s centers of power, two American families felt the first ripples on the breeze. Andrew Bean, a teacher and farmer from small-town Bethel, Maine, answered the call to the Union infantry. His younger sister Eliza, having found both employment and a suitable marriage in the bustling mill city of Lowell, Massachusetts, soon saw her husband, Henry Foster, enlist as well.

In more than 150 revealing letters dispatched from camp and field and home front, as well as Eliza Bean Foster’s own diary, the honors and horrors of war play out on an intimate stage.

Seldom does a surviving cache of documents illuminate the full span of the antebellum and war years in such close detail, from so many different angles. While Andrew wrote from the eastern battlefields of Bull Run and South Mountain, Henry posted lines from New Orleans, Fort Monroe, and Sabine Pass in the Western Theater. Eliza’s replies describe children and family—and sometimes desperate circumstances. “I have a good mind to send this [money] right back,” wrote Eliza to her brother near war’s end. “I shant use it untill I hear from you. Write quick.”

Illustrated with more than 50 original documents and never-before-published photographs, the volume traces Eliza’s life from New England mill girl, to young married woman and mother, to war widow and victim of consumption. Write Quick presents a valuable case history and a poignant story of one Northern woman through her own pen and the lens of her contemporaries.

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, Melissa Ford.“Life From Scratch.” 2010: n. pag. Print.

The food blog conceit is already a popular one (as in Julie and Julia), but what makes this fictional food blogger character unique is that she isn’t a foodie like Julie Powell, nor is she on a quest for fame. Instead, Rachel doesn’t have a clue about artisanal olive oils, nor does she long to make the perfect Boeuf Bourguignon; she merely wants to learn how to cook for herself, something she never knew how to do in her old life. Food plays an enticing role in what is, at its heart, a story about finding your voice, saying what you want, and, ultimately, getting where you want to be.

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(Co-editor), Elizabeth F. Evans.“Woolf & The City: Selected Papers from the Nineteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf.” 2010: n. pag. Print.

The book also includes a special session of the conference, a round-table conversation on Woolf’s legacy in and out of the academy. Beyond the volume’s focus on urban issues, many of the essays address the ethical and political implications of Woolf’s work, a move that suggests new insights into Woolf as a “real world” social critic. The contributors, who include Ruth Gruber, Molly Hite, Mark Hussey, Tamar Katz, Eleanor McNees, Kathryn Simpson, and Rishona Zimring, advance Woolf studies and the broader fields of narrative studies, cultural geography, urban theory, phenomenology, and gender studies.

, Andrea Kaston Tange.“Architectural Identities: Domesticity, Literature, and the Victorian Middle Class.” 2010: n. pag. Print.

Individual chapters examine the essential identities associated with particular domestic spaces, such as the dining room and masculinity, the drawing room and femininity, and the nursery and childhood. Autobiographical materials by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Linley and Marion Sambourne offer useful counterpoints to the evidence assembled from fiction, demonstrating how and where members of the middle classes remodelled the boundaries of social categories to suit their particular needs. Including analyses of both canonical and lesser-known Victorian authors, Architectural Identities connects the physical construction of the home with the symbolic construction of middle-class identities.

, Agate Nesaule.“In Love With Jerzy Kosinski: A Novel.” 2009: n. pag. Print.

From Agate Nesaule, acclaimed by writers across the globe from Doris Lessing to Tim O’Brien, comes a long-awaited novel. In Love with Jerzy Kosinski is a story of courage and persistence, exploring in fiction the themes that gripped readers of Nesaule’s award-winning memoir, A Woman in Amber.

After fleeing Latvia as a child, Anna Duja escapes Russian confinement in displaced persons camps and eventually arrives in America. Years later, she finds herself in a different kind of captivity on isolated Cloudy Lake, Wisconsin, living with her disarming but manipulative husband, Stanley.

Inspired by the transformation of Polish-Jewish émigré Jerzy Kosinski from persecuted wartime escapee to celebrity author in America, Anna slips away from Stanley and Cloudy Lake in small steps: learning to drive, making friends, moving to Madison, falling in love, and learning to forgive. Readers will applaud the book’s power, the beauty of its prose, and its strong evocation of a woman gradually finding her way in the wake of trauma.

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, Melissa Ford.“Navigating the Land of If: Understanding Infertility and Exploring Your Options.” 2009: n. pag. Print.

No stranger to the Land of If herself, Ford shares her hard-earned knowledge and insights, helping couples struggling with infertility understand the lingo, learn the details doctors tend to leave out, and keep their emotional sanity despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Navigating the Land of If gives the nitty-gritty on injections, rejections, biting your tongue during happy parent-to-be conversations, and trying not to cry over baby shower invitations. With chapters that include how-to’s for same-sex couples, and present adoption or remaining child free as plausible alternatives, Ford tells you exactly what you need to know, from one infertile to another.

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, Charles Hobbie.“Buffalo Wings.” 2009: n. pag. Print.

As World War II comes to an end in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office. Throughout the country, the greatest generation mourns its leader. A spring snowstorm in Western New York inaugurates the cold war. Chuck Hobbie is just a boy, born on unlucky Friday, April 13th, but fortunate to be a child in Buffalo. As all Buffalonians know, it is not a dazzling city, unless the sparkle of winter snow and the shimmer of reflected summer lights from Erie and Niagara count. Likewise, the city’s citizens, families, and teachers are unremarkable, unless resilience, friendships, and quiet, day-to-day hard work matter. Buffalo’s children are not special at all, except that they were raised in Buffalo, amid the history of the Niagara Frontier, by people who cared for them and institutions that prepared them to fly. Buffalo’s west side is where Chuck comes of age, but his childhood experiences range from there to New Hampshire’s White Mountains, a farm in Lewiston, N.Y., Holloway Bay in Ontario, and Alaska’s Brooks Range. Join Chuck as he recalls in Buffalo Wings the childhood family, friends, teachers, and experiences that shaped his life in the decades before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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, Andy Selsberg.“Dear Old Love: Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, & Ones That Got Away.” 2009: n. pag. Print.

They’re the notes that ex-lovers have written to set the record straight. Or crooked. They’re concise, witty, melancholy, revealing, sweet, sentimental, outrageous, withering, indignant, sometimes all at the same time. And like a pitch-perfect little poem, each entry paints a complete picture with just a handful of apt words: “A current snapshot of you erased 25 years of fantasizing about what could have been.” Or: “I don’t care that you miss my dog. When you cheated on me, you cheated on him, too.” Or: “I say ‘I love you’ to people all the time now, to make that time I said it to you mean less.“And for anyone wanting help to write their own love note, the book ends with clever fill-ins: “I wonder if we’d still be together if I had just admitted I was a ____, instead of saying you had a ____ so big it blocked out the _____.” Try it on someone you loved.

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, Renée R. Trilling.“The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse.” 2009: n. pag. Print.

Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a window into Anglo-Saxon life. However, these poems are works of art as well as vehicles for ideology. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

Examining the distinctive poetic techniques found in vernacular historic poetry, Renée R. Trilling argues that the literary construction of heroic poetry promoted specific kinds of historical understanding in early medieval England, distinct from linear and teleological perceptions of the past. The Aesthetics of Nostalgia surveys Anglo-Saxon literary culture from the age of Bede to the decades following the Norman Conquest in order to explore its cultural impact through both its content and its form.

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, Julie E. Fromer.“A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England.” 2009: n. pag. Print.

In A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England, Julie E. Fromer analyzes tea histories, advertisements, and nine Victorian novels, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Wuthering Heights, and Portrait of a Lady. Fromer demonstrates how tea functions within the literature as an arbiter of taste and middle-class respectability, aiding in the determination of class status and moral position. She reveals the way in which social identity and character are inextricably connected in Victorian ideology as seen through the ritual of tea.

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, Cody Walker.“Shuffle and Breakdown.” 2008: n. pag. Print.

Cody Walker’s Shuffle and Breakdown, his first collection and a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2005 and 2006, is a work of comic brilliance and devastating irony. From “Abbott and Costello: The Alzheimer’s Years” to a series of letters to Whitman from his imagined grandson, this is a wondrous strange book that operates with the precise timing of a great joke, while bracing itself for dissolution and worse.

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, J. Hellerman.“Social Actions for Classroom Language Learning.” 2008: n. pag. Print.

The research uses methods from conversation analysis with longitudinal data to document practices for interaction between learners and how those practices change over time. Language learning is seen in learners’ change in participation in their in social actions that occur around and within teacher-assigned language learning tasks (starting the task, non-elicited story tellings within tasks, and ending tasks). Web links are provided so the reader can see the data from the classroom that is the subject of the analyses.

, Elizabeth C. Miller.“Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin De Siècle.” 2008: n. pag. Print.

In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres.

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(Editor), John Klima.“Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories.” 2007: n. pag. Print.

We asked twenty-one of today’s most talented and inventive writers to go even further and pen an original tale inspired by one of dozens of obscure and fascinating championship words. The result is Logorrhea–a veritable dictionary of the weird, the fantastic, the haunting, and the indefinable that will have you spellbound from the very first page. There’s only one word for such an irresistible anthology: Logorrhea.

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, John M. Duffy.“Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community.” 2007: n. pag. Print.

The Hmong have often been described as “preliterates,” “nonliterates,” or members of an “oral culture.” Although such terms are problematic, it is nevertheless true that the majority of Hmong did not read or write in any language when they arrived in the U.S. For this reason, the Hmong provide a unique opportunity to study the forces that influence the development of reading and writing abilities in cultures in which writing is not widespread and to do so within the context of the political, economic, religious, military, and migratory upheavals classified broadly as “globalization.”

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, Eli Goldblatt.“Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy Beyond the College Curriculum.” 2007: n. pag. Print.

A more open architecture for writing programs emphasizes writing beyond the college curriculum not because Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) has failed but because it has succeeded: WAC must now take into account the inside and the outside, the classroom and the world.

The book will prove invaluable to writing and reading faculty in all settings, school and college administrators, students of composition/rhetoric and education, and organizers invested in the literacy of their communities.

Contents: Introduction. WRITING WITHIN, ACROSS, BEYOND. Plan of the Book. John Dewey and the Writing Program. Crowley’s Attack on Service and Temple’s Response. Situated Leadership and the New London Group. CONTINUITY AND CONTROL. An Overview of Regional Schools. First-Year GPA and Retention. Placement in Basic Writing. Visiting Schools. Two Schools. Conclusions. DEEP ALIGNMENT AND SPONSORSHIP. Vocation and its Discontents. Temple and Regional Community Colleges. Deep Alignment: Programs in Conversation. The First-Year Writing Assignment Project. What Does Sponsorship Tell Us About Alignment. ALINSKY’S REVEILLE. Saul Alinsky: A Community Organizing Model. The Open Door Collaborative. Literacy Sponsorship and Knowledge Activism. LUNCH. A Return to First Principles. Joint Sponsorship: What Grants Can Do to Breach the Walls. ON CIRCULATION. What Literacy Sponsorships Will Work Beyond the College Curriculum? How Do We Contribute to Our Home Institutions While Engaging Off-Campus Partners? Are These Efforts Worthwhile? Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

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, Alicia A. Kent.“African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism.” 2007: n. pag. Print.

Uncovering the connections and confrontations among three ethnic groups not often read in relation to one another, Kent maps out the historical contexts that have shaped ethnic American writing in the Modernist era, a period of radical dislocation from homelands and increased migration for these three ethnic groups. Rather than focus on the ways others have represented these groups, Kent restores the voices of these multicultural writers to the debate about what it means to be modern.

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, Becker, Ron.“Gay TV and Straight America.” 2006: n. pag. Print.

In Gay TV and Straight America, Ron Becker draws on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to explain this sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network television. Bringing together analysis of relevant Supreme Court rulings, media coverage of gay rights battles, debates about multiculturalism, concerns over political correctness, and much more, Becker’s assessment helps us understand how and why televised gayness was constructed by a specific culture of tastemakers during the decade.On one hand the evidence points to network business strategies that embraced gay material as a valuable tool for targeting a quality audience of well-educated, upscale adults looking for something “edgy” to watch. But, Becker also argues that the increase of gay material in the public eye creates growing mainstream anxiety in reaction to the seemingly civil public conversation about equal rights.In today’s cultural climate where controversies rage over issues of gay marriage yet millions of viewers tune in weekly to programs like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, this book offers valuable insight to the complex condition of America’s sexual politics.

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, Lincoln Konkle.“Thornton Wilder and The Puritan Narrative Tradition.” 2006: n. pag. Print.

Konkle shows that Thornton Wilder, as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor, inherited the best of the Puritans’ worldview and drew upon those attributes of the Puritan tradition within American literature that would strike a fundamental chord with his American audience. By providing close readings of Wilder’s texts against seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan culture and literature, Konkle demonstrates that Wilder’s aesthetic was not just generically allegorical but also typically American and his religious sensibility was not just generally Christian, but specifically Calvinist. He alsoemphasizes aspects of Puritan theology, ideology, and aesthetics that have been suppressed or repressed into our cultural unconscious but are manifested in Wilder’s texts in response to various historical or personal stimuli. Konkle makes an original contribution to Wilder scholarship by providing the first in-depth readings of the full-length play The Trumpet Shall Sound and of the film Shadow of a Doubt (as a major work of Wilder). Also included are readings of little-known and seldom-discussed dramatic pieces, including Proserpina and the Devil, And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead, and Our Century. With its emphasis on the continuities of thought and form found in American literature from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, this analysis of Wilder’s drama and fiction will reclaim him as an intrinsically American writer, deserving to be read within the context of American literary and cultural traditions.

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, Bilder, Mary Sarah.“The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire.” 2005: n. pag. Print.

Focusing on practices rather than doctrines, Bilder describes how the pragmatic and flexible conversation about this constitution shaped colonial law: the development of the legal profession; the place of English law in the colonies; the existence of equity courts and legislative equitable relief; property rights for women and inheritance laws; commercial law and currency reform; and laws governing religious establishment. Using as a case study the corporate colony of Rhode Island, which had the largest number of appeals of any mainland colony to the English Privy Council, she reconstructs a largely unknown world of pre-Constitutional legal culture.

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, John Cullen Gruesser.“Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic.” 2005: n. pag. Print.

For readers who may not be well acquainted with one or more of the three theories, Gruesser provides concise introductions in the opening chapter. In addition, he urges those people working in postcolonial or African American literary studies to attempt to break down the boundaries that in recent years have come to isolate the two fields. Gruesser then devotes a chapter to each theory, examining one literary text that illustrates the value of the theoretical model, a second text that extends the model in a significant way, and a third text that raises one or more questions about the theory. His examples are drawn from the writings of Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, and Alice Walker. Cautious not to conflate postcolonial and African American studies, Gruesser encourages critics to embrace the black Atlantic’s emphases on movement through space (routes rather than roots) and intercultural connections and to expand and where appropriate to emend Gilroy’s efforts to bridge the two fields.

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, Al Norman.“The Case Against Wal-Mart.” 2004: n. pag. Print.

Al Norman, a 1968 UW English grad, has been called the “guru of the anti-Wal-Mart movement” by 60 Minutes. The Case Against Wal-Mart calls for a national consumer boycott of the giant retailer.

Norman, the world’s foremost expert on and leader of the anti-sprawl movement, The Case Against Wal-Mart calls on consumers to go on a “Wal-Mart diet.” Norman says that only a consumer boycott of Wal-Mart will show the company that U.S. citizens disapprove of its business tactics.

This is a book every American shopper should read before making another trip to Wal-Mart. As Al Norman says, “Friends don’t let friends shop at Wal-Mart.”

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(Co-editor), John M. Duffy and Martin Nystrand.“Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse.” 2003: n. pag. Print.

Rhetoric here refers not to the classical arts of persuasion, or the verbal ornamentation of elite discourse, but rather to the ways that individuals and groups use language and writing to constitute their identities and their social worlds. The contributors, including some of the most productive scholars in research on rhetoric and composition studies, collectively explore the rhetorical character of popular culture and institutional discourse. This volume will appeal to researchers and teachers of writing, rhetoric, literacy, and education.

(Co-editor), Lincoln Konkle.“Stephen Vincent Benet: Essays on His Life and Work.” 2003: n. pag. Print.

The first group of essays addresses Benét’s life, times, and personal relationships. Thomas Carr Benét reminisces about his father in the first essay, and others consider Benét’s marriage to his wife Rosemary; Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder and Benét as friends, liberal humanists and public activists; and his friendships with Philip Barry, Jed Harris, and Thornton Wilder.The second group contains essays about Benét’s poetry, fiction, and drama. They discuss Benét’s role in the development of historical poetry in America, John Brown’s Body and the Civil War, Hawthorne, Benét and historical fiction, Benét’s Faustian America, the adaptation of “The Devil and Daniel Webster” to drama and then to film, Benét’s use of fantasy and science fiction, and Benét as a dramatist for stage, screen and radio.

(Editor), Sharon Rose Wilson.“Margaret Atwood: Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction.” 2003: n. pag. Print.

Atwood’s recent poetry and short fiction, especially experimental pieces, have been largely ignored. This collection explores Atwood’s new ways of presenting continuing themes, including survival. The issues of power and sexual politics that mark Atwood’s earliest work have evolved. Beginning in the eighties and nineties and now in the twenty-first century, Atwood’s characters and readers have become more aware of the multicultural, colonized, racist, and classist as well as patriarchal, sexist, and hypocritical nature of the worlds they occupy. Increasingly, Atwood’s survivors are trickster creators, using their verbal “magic” to transform their worlds. This new book contains new, never-published, groundbreaking essays on recent texts by many of the most well-known, Atwood and Canadian studies scholars, most of whom have written books on Margaret Atwood. Many of the essays consider the focus text in reference to all Atwood’s work.

, Julie Wosk.“Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age.” 2003: n. pag. Print.

Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control — and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women’s interactions with — and understanding of — machinery has been defined in Western visual culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on both visual and literary sources, Wosk illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have burdened women throughout modern history while underscoring their advances in what was long considered the domain of men. Illustrated with more than 150 images, Women and the Machine reveals women rejoicing in their new liberties and technical skill even as they confront society’s ambivalence about these developments, along with male fantasies and fears.

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, Karen S. Tipper.“A Critical Biography of Lady Jane Wilde, 1821?-1896 Irish Revolutionist, Humanist, Scholar and Poet.” 2002: n. pag. Print.

The focus of this study is upon a progressive women whose broad erudition allowed her to write on a great variety of subjects. Her own life as a revolutionist and writer, and her writings about women will interest those in women’s studies. As an Irish nationalist in a movement that had considerable influence on subsequent nationalist leaders like Arthur Griffin, her views in her revolutionary poems and articles are still pertinent.

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, Glenda E. Gill.“No Surrender! No Retreat!: African-American Pioneer Performers of 20th Century American Theater.” 2000: n. pag. Print.

Twenty-four years in the making, No Surrender! No Retreat! is an indispensable work on African Americans in the performing arts, examining well-known performers, such as James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, and Pearl Bailey. Rare archival material and a number of personal interviews enrich this tome. Glenda E. Gill’s work is a moving and sometimes tragic account of the lives and careers of some of America’s most outstanding African American pioneers in theater.

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, Al Norman.“Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart.” 1999: n. pag. Print.

Wal-Mart is the world’s largest company. Every week 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart’s 4,750 stores. The country’s largest employer, it plans to open 1,000 more supercenters inthe US over the next five years with each supercenter covering up to 200,000 square feet.

Today Wal-Mart is a major force in many categories of retailing including clothing, furniture, apparel, toys, CDs magazines and food. Wal-Mart’s volume exceeds the gross national product of Saudi Arabia. It has done as much as $1.43 billion in sales in just one day!

Wal-Mart is a mean, tough relentless competitor using non-union, low-wage employees and relentless buying practices to become the price leader in any category it chooses.

If you have any doubt that Wal-Mart is an ever-expanding Goliath ready to beat all foes and destroy the viability of your downtown, read this book — the most telling expose of Wal-Mart ever written.

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(Co-editor), Sharon Rose Wilson.“Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works.” 1996: n. pag. Print.

Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works is the first book to focus on the teaching of this writer’s oeuvre exclusively.

, Agate Nesaule.“A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile.” 1995: n. pag. Print.

A moving memoir of both the past and the present, A Woman in Amber, tells the story of the lasting scars inflicted by the occupation in Latvia during World War II, and how that experience affected a woman’s relationship with her mother and husband for years to come.

Though successful in her professional life, Agate Nesaule was depressed and unable to come to terms with its cause until she finds her voice and starts to share what happened to her and her family during at the hands of the invading Russian soldiers during the war.

In her memoir, Nesaule tells many stories related to her hunger, both physical and emotional. She tells about begging Russian soldiers for food. And about the abusive relationship with her first husband and the redemption that came when she met her second.

*Winner of the American Book Award
*Named Outstanding Academic book by Choice
*Selected for Outstanding Achievement Recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee

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, Ann Fox Chandonnet.“Chief Stephen’s Parky: One Year in the Life of an Athapascan Girl.” 1993: n. pag. Print.

This book tells the fictional story of Olga, the wife of Chief Stephen, leader of a Tanaina Athapascan village on Cook Inlet, northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Olga works for one full year with great courage and independence trapping ground squirrels and gathering materials needed to tan, dye, and sew furs to make a parka for her husband. She uses alder bark for dye, whale sinew for thread, sealskin for trim, a tough piece of hide for a thimble, a sharpened ground-squirrel leg bone for a needle, and an awl made from moose antler with a handle of moose bone. With these materials, she makes her husband, Chief Stephen, the most beautiful, functional, and creative squirrel skin parka the village has ever seen. The warm clothing Olga provides for the chief makes possible his success as a hunter, trapper, and village leader. Like other Athapascans, the Tanaina were hunter-gatherers and led a nomadic life style. The book describes the migratory seasonal cycle typical of the Tanaina in their year-round quest for food and natural resources. They developed an extensive system of trails over which they traveled, making use of various fish, fowl, and animals in different habitats at appropriate seasons. The book also depicts the tribe at a point in their history when modern technology and European ways were beginning to change their traditional way of life forever. This book contains photographs, illustrations, and a map.

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, Sharon Rose Wilson.“Margaret Atwood’s Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics.” 1993: n. pag. Print.

In relating Atwood’s fragile, mysterious paintings, collages, linocuts, drawings, and cartoons to her writing, this study shows how such fairy-tale images-along with myths, the Bible, history, film, art, and popular literature-reveal archetypes in her work. The engaging writing and the eerie visual art of Margaret Atwood braid together fairy-tale themes from Grimm and Andersen with the feminist concerns for which this internationally acclaimed Canadian author is well known.

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, Julie Wosk.“Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century.” 1993: n. pag. Print.

Wosk also reveals the striking ability of artists to capture the drama and the dangers of the new technologies, seen in their images of factories spewing smoke, steam boilers bursting, trains crashing, and comic views of people-turned-automatons. Their art dramatically mirrored widespread feelings of disorientation the phenomenon sociologists have called “breaking frame.”

Wosk demonstrates the startling impact of new technologies on the decorative arts and industrial design. While critics anguished, manufacturers using new materials poured out elaborately ornamented machine-made copies of original works of art. The new simulations spurred dramatic design debates which have resurfaced during our postmodern era. She also highlights how artists’ responses to a world newly transformed by technology prefigured the fear and pride, resistance and accommodation to technological achievement, that are still felt over a century later.

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, Glenda E. Gill.“White Grease Paint on Black Performers.” 1988: n. pag. Print.

As an icebreaker, the Federal Theatre made it possible for black actors and audiences to enjoy benefits unknown previously: union protection, a theatre for the masses, a reduction of the stereotype, visibility that led to Broadway and to Hollywood, and an ensemble spirit. In spite of the tragedies of the WPA Project, there were significant triumphs.

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, Jack Stark.“The Literature of Exhaustion: Borges, Nabokov and Barth.” 1974: n. pag. Print.

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