IOWA

where great writing begins

fall 2017
IOWA
where great writing begins
. . . Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 Service in a Time of Suspicion Michelle Sandhoff

2 Home Ice Kevin Cunningham
3 Good Apples Susan Futrell
4 Outside Is the Ocean Matthew Lansburgh
GOOD
GOOD 5 What Counts as Love Marian Crotty
APPLES
APPLES
Behind Every Bite
6 The Phantom Unmasked Kevin Patrick
susan futrell
7 Mary Janes Ghost Ted Gregory
8 Attributed to the Harrow Painter Nick Twemlow
9 Supply Chain Pimone Triplett
10 North American Birds Dana Gardner
11 Heart Stays Country Gary Lantz
12 Framing Fan Fiction Kristina Busse
13 Thus I Lived with Words Annette R. Federico
14 Whitman & Dickinson ric Athenot and Cristanne Miller, eds.
15 The Afterlives of Specimens Lindsay Tuggle
16 Hope Isnt Stupid Sean Austin Grattan
17 Reading as Collective Action Nicholas Hengen Fox
18 Knowing Where It Comes From Fabio Parasecoli
19 Good Food, Strong Communities Steve Ventura and Martin Bailkey, eds.

MaRy 20 Playful Letters Erika Mary Boeckeler

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21 General Interest Bestsellers
21 Recent Book Honors and Reviews

gHOsT THE LEGACY

2223 Indexes
OF A MURDER 23 Desk and Exam Copy Policies
IN SMALL TOWN
AMERICA
24 Contact Information
TED GREGORY
25 Sales Representation

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 Service in a Time of Suspicion
Experiences of Muslims Serving in
the U.S. Military Post-9/11
by Michelle Sandhoff

In a time when Islamophobia shapes political discourse in society,

service
Sandhoff unveils the diverse experiences of Muslims in our most
in a
hallowed social institutionthe military. Service in a Time of Suspicion
delivers compelling narratives that help the reader connect with the time of

unique space between being Muslim and military service. suspicion

Captain David Smith, USN, U.S. Naval Academy
Experiences of Muslims Serving

Sandhoff gives voice to an often caricatured group of military per- in the U.S. Military Post-9/11

sonnel. In so doing, she raises questions about what it means to be michelle sandhoff

an American for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. A humanizing and

urgent book about identity, inclusion, and the contemporary vital-
ity of our nations founding ideals.Kim Philip Hansen, author,
Military Chaplains and Religious Diversity
Despite a re-emergence of American Islamophobia, thousands of
Muslims have served in our armed forces since 9/11. Sandhoffs
interviews with service members demonstrate that one can be both
American and Muslim, and that their personalities, motivations, and
military experiences are as diverse as those of any other group of
service members.David R. Segal, founding director, Center for
Research on Military Organization, University of Maryland
On September 11, 2001, nineteen members of the Islamist
extremist organization al-Qaeda launched four coordinated attacks
on the United States, killing 2,977 people. These events and the
governments subsequent War on Terror refueled long-standing
negative stereotypes about Muslims and Islam among many Ameri-
cans. And yet thousands of practicing Muslims continued to serve
or chose to enlist in the U.S. military during these years.
In Service in a Time of Suspicion, fifteen such service members talk
about what it means to be Muslim, American, and a uniformed
member of the armed services in the twenty-first century. These
honest accounts remind us of our shared humanity.
This book is a wonderful example of public
sociology. Sandhoff looks at the public
issue of the connection between citizen-
ship and military service by examining the
personal troubles of real people. The book
is both compelling and important.
Mucahit Bilici, author, Finding Mecca
in America
Sandhoff provides us a rare giftan in-
depth study of American military service
members during a time of warthe more
so because her subjects are all Muslim
Americans. Her analysis reveals experi-
ences that are nuanced and compelling;
a diversity of experiences is the norm.
Morten G. Ender, author, American
Soldiers in Iraq

Michelle Sandhoff is an assistant professor of sociology at Indiana

University of Pennsylvania, where she is a member of the Veterans
Reintegration Research Cluster. She lives in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

september
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Home Ice
Confessions of a Blackhawks Fan
by Kevin Cunningham

Unable to skate and surrounded by sports fans who cared

more about Evel Knievel than hockey, Kevin Cunningham became
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obsessed with the Chicago Blackhawks as a confused eight year

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old. He has no idea why. Yet from that moment on he embarked

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on a fans journey that absorbed his childhood, destroyed his GPA,

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Calgary. What explains this fascination?
Home Ice combines memoir and history to explore how the mys-
teries of Blackhawks fandom explain big questions like tribal be-
longing, masculinity, and why you would ever trade Chris Chelios.
In recounting the teamsand his ownwins and losses (and
ties), Cunningham covers everything from Keith Magnusons bach-
elor pad to the grim early aughts to Patrick Kanes Cup-winner.
Throughout, he explores how we come to love the things we love. This is the book that Blackhawks fans have
Funny and touching, Home Ice is one Blackhawk fans attempt to been waiting for, and I mean really, REALLY
understand why sports fandom is utterly ridiculous and entirely waiting for. It was difficult, even as a Blues
necessary. fan, not to be a little happy for Blackhawks
fans these last few years. This book is an ex-
Kevin Cunningham lives in Evanston, Illinois. His other books cellent argument as to why.Will Leitch,
include The Constellations. author, Are We Winning? and God Save the Fan,
founder, Deadspin

excerpt from Home Ice

I read four books in third grade. The first was Stuart Little, a kids
book about a mouse. The second was Chariots of the Godsonly
the classics for meand the third an astronomy book by Patrick
Moore, one of those fantastically crusty British crackpots who
wore a monocle and after decades of bachelorhood declared
women had ruined the world. What can I say? Some little boys
dig on dinosaurs. For me it was outer space. Learning about the
Messier catalog, which numbers certain objects like galaxies
and nebulae, prepared me for French-Canadian hockey names.
I stand by my last choice: Stan Mikitas I Play to Win. Judging
from the rest of the reading list, it was the first grownup book I
ever read written by a sane person.

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 Good Apples
Behind Every Bite
by Susan Futrell

Susan Futrell weaves apple history, labor, production, and marketing

GOOD
issues around the frustrations, never-ending work, and unpredict-
able climate that apple growers cope with, sustained often only by
passion and hope. Susans keen observations of one of the worlds GOOD
APPLES
great food commodities are reality checks for the industry and will
enlighten both professionals and aspiring apple growers.
Tom Burford, author, Apples of North America
APPLES
Behind Every Bite
With authority and grace, Good Apples cuts all the way to the core of susan futrell
our present-day agricultural system, probing not only the challenges
of producers but the responsibilities of consumers toward our favor-
ite fruit. A great read and stunning debut for Susan Futrell.
Mary Swander, author, Farmscape: The Changing Rural Environment
Join Susan Futrells journey from New
Apples are so ordinary and so ubiquitous that we often take England to Iowa to Washington to meet
them for granted. Yet it is surprisingly challenging to grow and sell the growers working to produce perfect
such a common fruit. In fact, producing diverse, tasty apples for the apples with exactly the crunch and flavor
market requires almost as much ingenuity and interdependence as people want. This is a story of the uncer-
building and maintaining a vibrant democracy. Understanding the tainties of a changing climate, a dance of
geographic, ecological, and economic forces shaping the choices managing pests and weather and second-
of apple growers, apple pickers, and apple buyers illuminates guessing a global, unforgiving apple
whats at stake in the way we organize our food system. market to make a living and hold onto the
Good Apples is for anyone who wants to go beyond the kitchen land. Susan Futrellissues a gentle call to
and backyard into the orchards, packing sheds, and cold storage action to embrace the dazzling complexity
rooms; into the laboratories and experiment stations; and into of farming with all of our compassion and
the warehouses, stockrooms, and marketing meetings, to better intelligence.Glenda Yoder, Farm Aid
understand how we as citizens and eaters can sustain the farms
that provide food for our communities. Susan Futrell has spent
years working in sustainable food distribution, including more
than a decade with apple growers. She shows us why sustaining
family orchards, like family farms, may be essential to the soul
of our nation.

Susan Futrell has worked in marketing and food distribution for

over thirty-five years. She currently works for the nonprofit Red
Tomato. Susan lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

september
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$20.00 paper original, 978-1-60938-482-1
$20.00 e-book, 978-1-60938-483-8
food

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 Outside Is the Ocean
by Matthew Lansburgh
2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award

Matthew Lansburgh has a keen eye and ear, and he puts them to
great use in this lovely, and, frankly, mesmerizing linked collection.
Outside Is the Ocean is a gem.Andre Dubus III, judge, Iowa Short
Fiction Award

Every so often a work of fiction presents us with the great gift of

an entire life. What Matthew Lansburgh has given us here, like the
points of a constellation, is the breadth of a family, across many
decades, through all their hardships, unspeakable heartbreaks,
and small victories.Outside Is the Oceanis a book full of grace and
endurance. Its an exceptional debut, and were lucky to have it in
this world now.Paul Yoon, author, Snow Hunters

Matthew Lansburghs Outside Is the Ocean is one of the best short

story collections Ive read in years. Its sharp and funny and it sweeps That rare collection in which individual
the reader along through the lives of a cast of difficult and dam- stories create a whole that is much more
aged characters. But there are no villains here; the joy of reading than the sum of those wonderful and
Lansburghs stories is that he keeps spinning his characters around, deeply satisfying parts. What a lovely, sad,
finding tenderness alongside their abjection, compassion alongside funny new voice this is.Lori Ostlund,
hurt, until finally the people in this book feel as human and real as author, After the Parade
anyone youve known.Paul La Farge, author, The Night Ocean
Matthew Lansburgh writes with a remark-
Matthew Lansburgh is a great writer in the Raymond Carver vein. able mixture of humor and empathy. These
Deceptively simple, emotionally deep, his work shimmers with sneaky stories are taut with the most meaningful
passion. Hes the real deal.Darin Straiss, author, Half a Life of tensions: the painful complexity of love
between two flawed souls trying to find
Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who their places in each others lives.Outside
grew up in Germany during World War II, crosses the Atlantic to Is the Oceanis a poignant and perceptive
start a new life.Outside Is the Oceantraces Heikes struggle to find collection of bravely explored stories built
love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled into a deeply affecting debut.Josh Weil,
relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from author, The Great Glass Sea
Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will
give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina Outside Is the Oceanoffers the thrilling rev-
grows up, Heikes grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series elations of masterful short stories and
of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isnt the deep satisfactions of a novel.
until Heikes death that her son finds these letters and realizes how Anna Solomon, author, Leaving Lucy Pear
skewed his mothers perceptions actually were.

Matthew Lansburghs fiction has appeared or is forthcoming
inGlimmer Train, StoryQuarterly,Columbia,the Florida Review, Guer-
nica, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Joyland.He lives in New York.

october
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Stan Hsue

$17.00 e-book, 978-1-60938-528-6

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 What Counts as Love
by Marian Crotty
2017 John Simmons Short Fiction Award

With sensual, brave, and wonderfully evocative prose, Marian Crotty

explores the seemingly tattered nature of love, taking us deeply into
the varied lives of her characters and making us care for them all.
They are as alive for me as people I know and root for, and now Im
rooting for Marian Crotty, a compelling and important new voice
among us. What Counts as Love is a superb and truly moving collec-
tion.Andre Dubus III, judge, John Simmons Short Fiction Award

Marian Crottys bold, fresh young voice is a welcome addition to the

literary scene.Jennifer Egan, author, A Visit from the Goon Squad
M ARIAN
CROT TY
In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of
people searching for human connection. Her characters, most
often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing.
In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction Marian Crottys stories are never impre-
site after leaving an abusive marriage. In Crazy for You, two cise. Instead, they bring us a world that
girls spy on a neighbors sex life, while their own sexuality hovers is described exactly, down to the smallest
in the distance. In A Real Marriage, a college student marries details, and their headlong pace keeps
a boyfriend to help him stay in the United States. In The Fourth us reading breathlessly. She writes about
Fattest Girl at Cutting Horse Ranch, the daily life of a residential desperadoes of love, caught in moments
treatment center for eating disorders is disrupted by the arrival of when desperation may require uncom-
a celebrity. The stories are set in Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsyl- mon bravery. I found this book to be
vania, Maryland, and the Persian Gulf, and often touch on themes truthful and amazing. It is a beautiful
of addiction, class, sexuality, and gender. What Counts as Love is collection.Charles Baxter
a poignant, often funny collection that asks us to take it and its
characters seriously. In this riveting debut, Marian Crottys
characters illuminate the improbably
Marian Crotty is an assistant professor at Loyola University Mary- beautiful space between knowing exactly
land. Her short stories and personal essays have appeared or are whats wrong and being powerless to
forthcoming in literary journals such as the Kenyon Review, Alaska fix it.Alicia Erian, author, The Brutal
Quarterly Review, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Language of Love
Review, and New England Review. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

october
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Ron Tanner

$17.00 e-book, 978-1-60938-517-0

fiction

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 The Phantom Unmasked
Americas First Superhero
by Kevin Patrick

The Phantom Unmasked is an original study of surprisingly neglected

topicsnot just The Phantom, a comic strip as deserving of attention
as many others now receiving serious studybut also the fascinat-
ing circumstances of its international circulation and success.
Liam Burke, author, The Comic Book Film Adaptation

Before Superman, before Batman, there wasthe Phantom!

Making its debut as an American newspaper comic strip in 1936,
The Phantom was the forerunner of the comic-book superhero
genre that today animates vast billion-dollar franchises spanning
print, film, television, video games, and licensed merchandise. I would certainly not hesitate at all to pick
But youve probably never heard of ityou probably think Super- up this book, and I think that its global
man inaugurated the genre. Thats because, despite its American perspective will make it a very valuable
origins, The Phantom comic strip has enjoyed far greater popularity addition to the growing scholarship on
with international audiences, most notably in Australia, Sweden, comics and superheroes.David Huxley,
and India, where it has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and editor, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
comic books. The paradox of the characters relative obscurity
in the United States, offset by his phenomenal success in these
three markedly different countries, is the subject of The Phantom
Unmasked.
By tracing the publication history of The Phantom in magazines
and comic books across international markets since the mid-1930s,
author Kevin Patrick delves into the largely unexplored prehis-
tory of modern media licensing industries. He also explores the
interconnections between the cultural, political, economic, and
historical factors that fueled the characters international popu-
larity. The Phantom Unmasked offers readers a nuanced study of the
complex cultural flow of American comic books around the world.
Equally important, to provide a rare glimpse of international com-
ics fandom, Patrick surveyed the Phantoms phansas they call
themselvesand lets them explain how and why they came to love
the worlds first masked superhero.

Kevin Patrick is an independent media studies scholar. He curated

a major exhibition on the history of Australian comics at the State
Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, and has written exten-
sively about Australian comics and graphic novels for scholarly
journals. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

november
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 Mary Janes Ghost

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The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America
by Ted Gregory

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Mary Janes Ghost is a wonderful book, fast-paced and incisive, about
two mysterious deathsthat of a young couple in a small Illinois
town nearly seventy years ago, and also of American investigative
journalism in recent times.Scott Turow, author, Testimony

One of our most talented newspaper reporters and writers, Ted THE LEGACY
Gregory gives us his first book and it is a winner in every conceivable OF A MURDER
IN SMALL TOWN
way. Powerful and personal, it is true crime storytelling at its most
AMERICA
compelling and expansive, filled with intimate details, historical
substance, and memorable characters.Rick Kogan
TED GREGORY
Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon,
Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers lane is murdered.
The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Ted Gregorys fascinating reinvestiga-
Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one tion of an unsolved lovers lane double
is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary Jane Reed and Stanley murdera rural Illinois Black Dahlia
Skridla fade into times indifference. casenot only brings texture and insight
Fast forward fifty years. Eccentric entrepreneur Michael Arians to an intriguing mystery, but serves as a
moves to Oregon, opens a roadhouse, gets elected mayor, and tribute to the pleasures of a threatened
becomes obsessed with the crime. He comes up with a scandal- occupation, the newspaper reporter.
ous conspiracy theory and starts to believe that Mary Janes ghost Richard Babcock, former editor,
is haunting his establishment. He also reaches out to the Chicago Chicago magazine
Tribune for help.
Arianss letter falls on the desk of general assignment reporter Mary Janes Ghost is part detective story,
Ted Gregory. For the next thirteen years, while he ricochets from part road trip, and part rumination on
story to story and his newspaper is deconstructed around him, the nature of modern newspapers. I loved
Gregory remains beguiled by the case of the teenaged telephone Ted Gregorys witty, graceful writing,
operator Mary Jane and twenty-eight-year-old Navy vet Stanley his quest to figure out who killed Mary
and equally fascinated by Arianss seemingly hopeless pursuit of Jane, and the way he makes us ponder
whoever murdered them. Mary Janes Ghost is the story of these the big mystery: Why do we need stories
two odysseys. anyway?Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
columnist, author, Even the Terrible Things
Ted Gregory is a Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter at the Chicago Seem Beautiful to Me Now
Tribune and coauthor of two books: To Chase a Dream and Our Black
Year. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.

october
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Attributed to the Harrow Painter ni c k
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by Nick Twemlow
Kuhl House Poets
Attributed t0
Mark Levine and Emily Wilson, series editors the harro
Painter
Attributed to the Harrow Painter reckons with fatherhood,
the violence of nostalgia, poetry, and the commodity world of
visual art as the poems here frantically cycle through responses to
the speakers sons remark on a painting by Julian Schnabel that it
looks like garbage. What does it mean to be a minor artist, the
poems wonder, like the Greek pot painter named in the books
title, who is described by one critic as indeed a minor talent, not
withstanding the undeniable charm of some of his works? What
structures must be destroyed to clear the way for all the minor
voices that litter the discourse of Western civilization? This is a
mangled, tattered guide to transcendence through art in an age p o e m s

when such a thing seems nearly impossible.

Nick Twemlows work includes Palm Trees, and his poems have Meandering around the edges of the be-
appeared in Court Green, jubilat, Lana Turner, and the Paris Review. He ginning of someones mid-life,Attributed
coedits Canarium Books, and is a senior editor at the Iowa Review. to the Harrow Painter dips back to lost
He teaches at Coe College and lives in Iowa City, Iowa. teenage friends, traumas, accommoda-
tions, pleasures and losses and forward
as the father of ayoung child, to the
excerpt from inevitable future. Theres the New York
Looking at Schnabels The Death of Fashion with my son diaspora, andthere are the blue jays
and backyards of skull-fuck cold Kansas.
Sacha looks at Whereare you most alive?Like Dana
The Death of Fashion Ward and Ariana Reines, Nick Twemlow
Hanging against this writes brainy poetry thatsas dispersed as
real life without losing heart. I foundthe
Well-lit wall &
book very moving, and will read it again.
Says, This looks like
Chris Kraus, author, I Love Dick and
Garbage. The only word Summer of Hate
That matches his mouth
Is the end of everything.
No one goes out
Like this

november
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 Supply Chain
by Pimone Triplett

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Pimone Tripletts Supply Chain traces the imperatives of indentiture
supply, here, serving as both modifier and verb of commandfrom
global market forces to the psychological farce of self-regulation. Few

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writers investigate the anthemic inversions of our collective syntax with

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such ferocity and nuance.My grammar, sings this poet, hand over

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her readers heart, tis of thee. Srikanth Reddy, author, Voyager

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With their extravagant musicality, Tripletts poems ex-
plore the thinning lines between responsibility and complicity,
the tangled supply chain that unnervingly connects the domestic
to the political, personal memory to social practice, and age-old
familial discords to our new place in the anthropocentric world. Of the poets I admire, I can think of no
Equal parts celebration and lament for the mechanisms we shape other who dwells as comfortably inside
and are shaped by, these poetic acts reveal the poet as an entangled language as Pimone Triplett. As such,
mediator among registers of public and private, intimate and his- Supply Chainlike her previous volumes
torical, voicings. Here we traffic in the blessings and burdens of finds her gloriously moving between fixed
the human will to shape a world. Whats more, as we follow these and subtle shifts of meanings, between
linked enchainings of the deeply en-worlded citizen, we reawaken whats known and what can only be
to the central paradox of our time, the need to refuse easy answers, discovered through such jubilant lyri-
to stay open, trilling, between these necessary notes of critique cism. And yet, her poems are not empty
and of compassion. concerts; they are too thematically urgent
and charmingly mature in their haunt-
Pimone Triplett is the author of Rumor, The Price of Light, and Ruining ing range of concerns. From the nature
the Picture, as well as coeditor with Dan Tobin of the essay anthology, of human capital in our modern age to
Poets Work, Poets Play. She teaches at the University of Washington the cultural inheritance of a son, here is
and lives in Seattle, Washington. a poet who unapologetically showcases
the virtues of a complex, demanding art to
possess that which haunts the periphery
To All the Houseplants I Have Killed of our imaginations while she simply has
fun with words.Major Jackson
Paper-chapped, heavy fall frost not
banked on. Swerved out the rockery, a brittle
residuum. Hebe, e pluribus unum, liking
brights and light shade, moderate water,
no wet feet. I bring the thing in only
to watch it fail, some second impulse
scraping the land, nakedest, to stress.
Open, you lavender-blue cluster, whats left
of your busy luck. What eco of echoes that
hollows this hearing is: arrest me, item,
or keep your place. Also, the mind, long
enough overlooked, seems less than to leave
your copper burnt curls snagged past the saying.
Mister, bloom where you are: off the box.

november
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North American Birds
A Coloring Book
by Dana Gardner
Bur Oak Books
Holly Carver, series editor

There are many field guides to birds of the United States. Re-
fer to one if you want to know which colors go exactly where on
these thirty-three precisely drawn illustrations. Or create your own
fantastic ornithological kingdom by using the brightest shades
and patterns you can imagine. Its almost impossible to improve
upon the natural colors of the abstract-art-themed wood duck or
the well-named painted bunting, but theres no reason not to give
the American robin a makeover.
The birds are arranged in order of their evolutionary history so
that you can see the relationships among species and families.
Some of them, like the northern cardinal, are familiar backyard
friends; some, like the mountain quail and American bittern, are
wary denizens of brushlands and marshes; and some, like the
great horned owl, are seldom seen in daylight. One, unfortunately,
is extinctthe bright and raucous Carolina parakeet, which once
ranged widely in huge noisy flocks. All are waiting for you to bring
them to life with your own vibrant colors.

Dana Gardner is the author and/or illustrator of many publications,

including the laminated guides Birds at Your Feeder: A Guide to Winter
Birds of the Great Plains (Iowa, 2003), Raptors in Your Pocket: A Guide
to Great Plains Birds of Prey (Iowa, 2006), Waterfowl in Your Pocket: A
Guide to Water Birds of the Midwest (Iowa, 2008), and Warblers in Your
Pocket: A Guide to the Wood-Warblers of the Upper Midwest (Iowa, 2016),
and the books Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest and Fifty
Common Birds of the Upper Midwest (Iowa, 2010).

november
72 pages . 33 drawings . 8 x 11 inches
$13.00 paper original, 978-1-60938-520-0
coloring books

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 Heart Stays Country
Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills
by Gary Lantz
Bur Oak Books
Holly Carver, series editor
Heart Stays Country Meditations from the
Southern Flint Hills
gary lantz

Heart Stays Country is an amazing collection of observations regard-

ing one of the most important, endangered, and least appreciated
ecosystems in the world. Lantzs eloquent and in-depth writing will
open up a whole new world and appreciation for the prairie. I live on
a ranch in the prairie and realized after reading this book how little
I know about my own land. I think it should be a required reading
for college courses.Sue Selman, owner, Selman Guest Ranch,
Buffalo, Oklahoma

Writer and photographer Gary Lantz has always felt most

at home in what the Osage used to call the heart stays country
the southern edge of the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie in Oklahomas
Osage County. Its a place of grassy mounds with lots of rocks Many writers who extol the virtues of
underfoot and clusters of crooked little oaks providing shade. It prairie landscapes are visitors taken by
started young, his long-lasting love affair with a landscape that its special character, but return home at
unnerves the uninitiated a little, mostly because it just seems so sunset to the domestics of suburbia. They
empty, and it has persisted through his entire life. want to save it. Many others who live in the
As proud grasslanders know, the prairie is biologically fulfilling, midst of grasslands never see or reflect on
unique, and increasingly rare: biologists from the National Park what is so special. Some are willing to plow
Service and the Nature Conservancy agree that a healthy prairie or spray it with herbicides, and bulldoze
remains one of the most ecologically diverse and dynamic eco- the trees along the creek. Gary Lantz lived
systems on this planetas well as one of the rarest left on earth. much of his life away, but the grassland has
This landscape that once inspired rapturous exclamations from drawn him back to rediscover how much it
travelers headed west on horseback now mostly exists in fragments imprinted on his life. As expressed, Lantz
exiled from each other by cropland, cities, and interstate highways. cherishes the diverse life of prairiesfrom
Historically, tallgrass prairie stretched from Canada to Texas, dragonflies to prairie-chickensand the
from central Kansas to Indiana. Now the last major expanse of complexity of its history, including that of
tallgrass occurs in the Flint Hills, a verdant landscape extending Native Americans and neighboring ranch-
in a north-south strip across eastern Kansas and into northern ers along Sycamore Creek. It would be a
Oklahomas Osage County. In these essays, Gary Lantz brings the blessing if every child could be equally
beautiful diversity of the prairie home to all of us. exposed to nature and develop an appre-
ciation for noble communities.
Gary Lantz is a freelance writer-photographer who specializes in Ron Klataske
natural history subjects. He lives in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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 Framing Fan Fiction
Literary and Social Practices in
Fan Fiction Communities
by Kristina Busse

Framing Fan Fiction brings together the best of Kristina Busses pub- Framing Fan Fiction is a landmark book
lished writings, as well as a number of original essays, for the first not only in the subfield of fan culture
time. This book demonstrates, conclusively, that there is still much studies but in a wide variety of disciplines
fertile territory to explore, as the writer circles around fan fiction ranging from feminist studies, film and
from a wide array of different angles and brings the existing litera- media studies, cultural studies, sociol-
ture up to date in terms of the most contemporary practices. ogy, anthropology, and psychology. It
Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California is a definitive study that is both original
and syntheticin true fan culture style,
Gathering some of Kristina Busses essential essays on fan original in the ingenuity of its syntheses.
fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that Framing Fan Fiction is an encomium to the
understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory collective creative process from which all
with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works writers can take inspiration.
and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of Constance Penley, author, NASA/TREK:
fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key Popular Science and Sex in America
ways: as individual and collective erotic engagement; as a shared
interpretive practice in which tropes constitute shared creative
markers and illustrate the complexity of fan creations; and as a
point of contention around which community conflicts over eth-
ics play out. Moving between close readings of individual texts
and fannish tropes on the one hand, and the highly intertextual
embeddedness of these communal creations on the other, the
book demonstrates that fan fiction is simultaneously a literary
and a social practice.
Framing Fan Fiction deploys personal history and the interpreta-
tions of specific stories to contextualize fan fiction culture and its
particular forms of intertextuality and performativity. In doing
so, it highlights the way fans use fan fictions reimagining of the
source material to explore issues of identities and peformativities,
gender and sexualities, within a community of like-minded people.
In contrast to the celebration of originality in many other areas of
artistic endeavor, fan fiction celebrates repetition, especially the
collective creation and circulation of tropes.
An essential resource for scholars, Framing Fan Fiction is also an
ideal starting point for those new to the study of fan fiction and
its communities of writers.

Kristina Busse teaches at the University of South Alabama. She is

the cofounder and editor of Transformative Works and Culture. Her
work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, and Popular
Communication, and she is the coeditor of Fan Fiction and Fan Com-
munities in the Age of the Internet, Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom, and
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (Iowa, 2014).

october
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 Thus I Lived with Words
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writers Craft
by Annette R. Federico
Muse Books: The Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing
Robert D. Richardson, series editor

Federico moves across virtually the entire range of Stevensons

oeuvre to make her case for his importance not just as a writer but
as a dedicated and self-conscious student of his craft, without losing
sight of his commitment to the pleasuresthe enchantmentsof
art. The result is an account that reveals quite clearly the range and

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subtlety of Stevensons thinking on the practice of literary writing.
Stephen Arata, general coeditor,The New Edinburgh Edition of the
Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) loved more than any-

thing to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading
good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself Stevenson was always a writers writer,
in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every an artist others admired and strove to
literary genrefiction, poetry, travel writing, and essaysin a learn from. By stitching together com-
short and peripatetic life. His letters, especially, confess his elation ments on his craft from the range of his
at the richness of words and the companionship of books, often essays, Annette Federico now brings
projected against ill health and the shadow of his own mortality. readers into that special world, and in
Stevenson belonged to a newly commercial literary world, an the process offers an insight into his
era of mass readership, marketing, and celebrity. He had plenty poetics of fiction.Barry Menikoff,
of practical advice for writers who wanted to enter the profession: author, Narrating Scotland: The
study the best authors, aim for simplicity, strike a keynote, work Imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson
on your style. He also held that a writer should adhere to the truth
and utter only what seems sincere to his or her heart and experi- Federico offers a treasure trove of
ence of the world. Writers have messages to deliver, whether the Stevensons often inspiring, always
work is a tale of Highland adventure, a collection of childrens insightful thoughts on writing. With her
verse, or an essay on umbrellas. Stevenson believed that an author insightful thematic introductions and
could do no better than to find the appetite for joy, the secret place tender engagement with his aesthetics
of delight that is the hidden nucleus of most peoples lives. His and values, Stevenson comes to life as
remarks on how to write, on style and method, and on pleasure one of the most eloquent, innovative,
and moral purpose contain everything in literature and life that he and generous authors who have
cared most aboutadventuring, persisting, finding out who you rambled in the forest of art.
are, and learning to embrace the romance of destiny. Dennis Denisoff, McFarlin chair of
English, University of Tulsa
Annette R. Federico is a professor of English at James Madison
University. She lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Whitman & Dickinson
A Colloquy
edited by ric Athenot and Cristanne Miller
The Iowa Whitman Series
Ed Folsom, series editor

whitman & Dickinson is the first collection to bring together

original essays by European and North American scholars directly
linking the poetry and ideas of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickin-
son. The essays present intersections between these great figures
across several fields of study, rehearsing well-established topics

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from new perspectives, opening entirely new areas of investigation,
and providing new information about Whitmans and Dickinsons
lives, work, and reception.
Essays included in this book cover the topics of mentoring in-
fluence on each poet, religion, the Civil War, phenomenology, the
environment, humor, poetic structures of language, and Whit-
mans and Dickinsons twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury re-
ceptionincluding prolonged engagement with Adrienne Richs
response to this strange uncoupled couple of poets who stand
at the beginning of an American national poetic.

ric Athenot is professor of American literature at Universit Paris-

Est Crteil. He translated the first-ever French translation of Whit-
mans 1855 Leaves of Grass. Cristanne Miller is a SUNY distinguished
professor and Edward H. Butler professor of literature at the
University at Buffalo in New York. She has written extensively on
Dickinson and edited Emily Dickinsons Poems: As She Preserved Them.

Contributors include
Marina Camboni Wikimedia Commons

Andrew Dorkin
Vincent Dussol
Betsy Erkkil
Ed Folsom
Christine Gerhardt
Jay Grossman
Jennifer Leader
Marianne Noble
Ccile Roudeau
Shira Wolosky

january 2018
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 The Afterlives of Specimens
Science, Mourning, and Whitmans Civil War
by Lindsay Tuggle
the Iowa Whitman Series
Ed Folsom, series editor

This is an exciting book. From the opening claim that Whitmans

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word specimen is etymologically grounded in voyeurism, Afterlives
of Specimens is arresting in its insights. Well-researched and original,
it makes a major contribution to Whitman studies while also contrib-
uting to Civil War history and to our understanding of the intersec-
tion of science and mourning.Kenneth Price, codirector, The Walt
Whitman Archive This work will become quite important for
Whitman scholars, but one of the reasons
The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science it is such an exciting volume is the contri-
and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver be- bution it makes to our overall understand-
came both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence.Walt ing of attitudes toward and treatment of
Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living the body in the nineteenth century, par-
and the dead. In the space of a few decades, dissection evolved from ticularly in the context of the Civil War.
a posthumous punishment inflicted on criminals to an element This work will appeal to a broad audience:
of preservationist technology worthy of the presidential corpse of certain anecdotes and pieces of informa-
Abraham Lincoln. Whitman transitioned from a fervent opponent tion, while rather macabre (I challenge
of medical bodysnatching to a literary celebrity who left behind readers to forget the doctor who bound
instructions for his own autopsy, including the removal of his books in human skin), are so compelling
brain for scientific study. that readers with a general interest in
Grounded in archival discoveries, Afterlives traces the origins American history, the history of the Civil
of nineteenth-century Americas preservation compulsion, illu- War, or in the history of medicine, will
minating the influences of botanical, medical, spiritualist, and find it irresistible.Martin T. Buinicki,
sentimental discourses on Whitmans work. Tuggle unveils previ- author, Walt Whitmans Reconstruction
ously unrecognized connections between Whitman and the leading
medical men of his era, such as the surgeon John H. Brinton,
founding curator of the Army Medical Museum, and Silas Weir
Mitchell, the neurologist who discovered phantom limb syndrome.
Remains from several amputee soldiers whom Whitman nursed in
the Washington hospitals became specimens in the Army Medical
Museum.
Tuggle is the first scholar to analyze Whitmans role in medi-
cally memorializing the human cadaver and its abandoned parts.

Lindsay Tuggle teaches literature at Western Sydney University. A

collection of work, Calenture, is forthcoming. She lives in Sydney,
Australia.

november
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 Hope Isnt Stupid
Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature
by Sean Austin Grattan
The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in
Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor

Bringing together innovative scholarship being done in the dynamic Hope Isnt Stupid makes important and
fields of utopian studies, affect theory, and contemporary American rich contributions to the study of contem-
literature, this book makes significant and welcome interventions porary American literature and debates in
in a number of different fields. The highest compliment I can pay utopian studies and affect theory. Grattan
the book is that it has already changed my thinking and teaching in persuasively restores the political and
some significant ways.Phillip Wegner, University of Florida utopian dimensions tofiction that have
been typically read as lacking both. In
Hope Isnt Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected doing so,Hope Isnt Stupid makes a crucial
connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contem- contribution to rethinking the political
porary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely ambit of contemporary American litera-
theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without ture. An outstanding, necessarybook.
understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving Christopher Breu, Illinois State
away from science fictionthe genre in which utopian visions are University
often locatedauthor Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of
utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables
him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has
to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal
capitalism.
Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darni-
elle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are
deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to
reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to
the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine
reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and suc-
cor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the
diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present.
Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grat-
tans work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around
the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich,
vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope
Isnt Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American
literature, but in American life as well.

Sean Austin Grattan is a lecturer in American literature at the Uni-

versity of Kent. His work has appeared in Cultural Critique, Twentieth
Century Literature, Genre, Mediations, and Utopian Studies. He lives in
Canterbury, England.

october
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 Reading as Collective Action
Texts as Tactics
by Nicholas Hengen Fox

Nicholas Hengen Fox offers a powerful case for the potential of using In Reading as Collective Action, Nicholas
literature for public impact. From the high theory of Habermas to Hengen Fox marvelously illustrates
the streets of Knoxville, he weaves portraits of community-engaged a re-reading of reading as public
teaching and learning that demonstrate how reading in public workwork in public, with publics,
broadens and strengthens our words, our world, and ourselves. for public purposes. He takes leader-
Dan Sarofian-Butin, author, Service-Learning in Theory and Practice ship in the emerging democracy efforts
around higher education, and, more
Literature is powerful. It offers respite. It provides access broadly, adds to the repertoire of tactics
to beauty and horror, to new places, new people, and new ideas. It for the emerging nonviolent civic life
can, as the phrase goes, change your life. Good things, all of them. movement.Harry C. Boyte, senior
But also somewhat limited goods: theyre all pretty passive, pretty scholar, Sabo Center for Democracy
privateyou might even say self-centered. and Citizenship, Augsburg College
Reading as Collective Action shifts our focus outward, to another of
literatures powers: the power to reshape our world in very public,
very active ways. In this book, you will encounter readers who
criticized the Bush administrations war on terror by republishing
poems by writers ranging from Shakespeare to Amiri Baraka every-
where from lampposts to the New York Times. You will read about
people in Michigan and Tennessee, who leveraged a community
reading program on John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath to organize
support for those in need during the Great Recession and to engage
with their neighbors about immigration. You will meet a pair of
students who took to public transit to talk with strangers about
working-class literature and a trio who created a literary website
that reclaimed the working-class history of the Pacific Northwest.
This book challenges dominant academic modes of reading.
For adherents of the civic turn, it suggests how we can create
more politically effective forms of service learning and community
engagement grounded in a commitment to tactical, grassroots ac-
tions. Whether youre a social worker or a student, a zine-maker,
a librarian, a professor, or just a passionate reader with a desire to
better your community, this book shows that when we read texts
as tactics, that book changed my life can become that book
changed our lives.

Nicholas Hengen Fox teaches literature, writing, and social justice

courses at Portland Community College in Oregon. He lives in
Portland, Oregon.

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 Knowing Where It Comes From
Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete
in a Global Market
by Fabio Parasecoli

This is a definitive account of place-based food labeling. Whether This book demonstrates the global
comparing the legal terms of European protected designations of importance of place-based labels in
origin versus U.S. trademarks or detailing the cultural imaginaries of contemporary food culture, fusing issues
Slow Foods Arc of Taste, Parasecoli is a savvy guide to the political of development, heritage, and food
intricacies and social consequences of geographical indications. security along the way. I particularly found
Heather Paxson, author, The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value Parasecoli an expert guide through the
in America complex trade agreements, legal codes,
and practical considerations that make
This lucid investigation of place-based food and drink labels lays out place matter for the future of food.
the intersection of trade networks and intellectual property regimes Michaela DeSoucey, author, Contested
over the past century and provides important new insights. The legal Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
and political engagements with these labels have complex, contra-
dictory, and inconsistent consequences, thus providing a crucial Knowing Where It Comes From is a singular
cautionary tale to both producers and consumers.Amy B. Trubek, achievement on the construction of local
author, The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir food in our contemporary societies. The
critical and experienced perspective of
Offering the first broadly comparative analysis of place- Parasecoli reveals successfully the hits,
based labeling and marketing systems, Knowing Where It Comes interests, needs, and contradictions of the
From examines the way claims about the origins and meanings of world of todays food.F. Xavier Medina,
traditional foods get made around the world, from Italy and France director, UNESCO chair on food, culture,
to Costa Rica and Thailand. It also highlights the implications of and development at the Universitat
different systems for both producers and consumers. Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona
Labeling regimes have moved beyond intellectual property to
embrace community-based protections, intangible cultural heri-
tage, cultural landscapes, and indigenous knowledge. Reflecting
a rich array of juridical, regulatory, and activist perspectives, these
approaches seek to level the playing field on which food producers
and consumers interact.

Fabio Parasecoli is an associate professor and director of food

studies at The New School in New York City. His books include
Bite Me! Food in Popular Culture, Cultural History of Food, coedited
with Peter Scholliers, Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy, and, with
Laura Lindefled, Feasting Our Eyes: Food, Film, and Cultural Citizenship
in the United States.

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Good Food, Strong Communities
Promoting Social Justice through Local
and Regional Food Systems
edited by Steve Ventura and Martin Bailkey

Many Americans are hungry, while others struggle to find This engaging edited volume tells us what
healthy foods. What are communities doing to address this prob- works in different cities to simultaneously
lem, and what should they be doing? Good Food, Strong Communities bring about vibrant farms and gardens,
shares ideas and stories about efforts to improve food security in just and fair food systems, strong com-
large urban areas of the United States by strengthening community munities, thriving local economies, sus-
food systems. It draws on five years of collaboration between a tainable ecosystems, and healthy people.
research team comprised of the University of Wisconsin, Grow- It incorporates welcome reflection on
ing Power, and the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, and more dismantling racism through community-
than thirty organizations on the front lines of this work in Boston, based work in large urban food systems.
Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Madison, Molly D. Anderson, Middlebury College
and Cedar Rapids. Here, activists and scholars talk about whats
working and what still needs to be done to ensure that everyone Because this compilation grounds an
has access to readily available, affordable, appropriate, and ac- overview of practical and ethical issues
ceptable food. in U.S. community food systems with im-
The approach begins by laying out the basic principles of food portant and original case stories, it makes
security and food justice in light of the diversity of food system a unique and useful contribution to the
practices and innovations in Americas cities. The contributing field.Christine Porter, project director,
authors address land access for urban agriculture, debates over city Food Dignity, University of Wyoming
farming, new possibilities in food processing, and the marketing
of healthy food. They put these basic elementsland, production,
processing, and marketingin the context of municipal policy,
education, and food justice and sovereignty, particularly for people
of color. While the path of a food product from its producer to its
consumer may seem straightforward on the surface, the apparent
simplicity hides the complex logisticaland value-ladenfactors
that create and maintain a food system. This book helps readers
understand how a food system functions and how individual and
community initiatives can lessen the problems associated with an
industrialized food system.

Steve Ventura is the Gaylord Nelson distinguished professor of

environmental studies and soil science at the University of Wis-
consinMadison. He is also the director of the Land Tenure Center
in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Martin Bailkey
conducted one of the first assessments on the viability of using
vacant urban lots for farming. He also taught in various fields at
the university level. More recently, Martin served as outreach and
program coordinator for Growing Power, and coproject manager
of the Community and Regional Food Systems Project. Both Steve
and Martin live in Madison, Wisconsin.

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 Playful Letters
A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics
by Erika Mary Boeckeler
Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books
Matthew P. Brown, series editor

This is a lively and intriguing book. Apart from the value of the par-
ticular studies, the authors specific innovative contribution is that
she deals not just with key moments of Western European culture
but with the ways in which the alphabetic theme played out in Russia
over the equivalent period.Simon Franklin, Cambridge University

Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely

ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions
through Alphabeticsa new interpretive model for understanding
artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the

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graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters.
A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half
after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of
print, manuscript, sound, and image.
Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured
letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the
ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature This book offers a wealth of compelling
and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the let- evidence supporting Boeckelers asser-
terature that underwrites such cultural production. Playful Letters tion that letters mattered in early modern
begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the European culture, and the case studies
human bodyan intersection where letterature emerges with star- provide extremely interesting support for
tling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies pro- the claim. Boeckeler has some wonder-
duced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped ful insights into the way letters and the
letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of thought about them animate the art she
typography, orthography, and poetry. These mutually informing discusses.James A. Knapp, Loyola
processes render visible the persistent crumbling of words into University Chicago
letters and their reconstitution into narrative, poetry, and image.
In addition to providing a rich history of literary and artistic al-
phabetic interrogation in early modern Western Europe and Russia,
Playful Letters contributes to the continuous story of how people use
new technologies and media to reflect on older forms, including
the alphabet itself.

Erika Mary Boeckeler is an assistant professor of English at North-

eastern University. She lives in Melrose, Massachusetts.

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19 Bailkey, Martin, ed. Good Food, Strong Communities
20 Boeckeler, Erika mary Playful Letters
12 Busse, Kristina Framing Fan Fiction
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3 Futrell, Susan Good Apples
10 Gardner, Dana North American Birds
16 Grattan, Sean austin Hope Isnt Stupid
7 Gregory, Ted Mary Janes Ghost
17 Hengen Fox, Nicholas Reading as Collective Action
4 Lansburgh, Matthew Outside Is the Ocean
11 Lantz, Gary Heart Stays Country
14 Miller, Cristanne, ed. Whitman & Dickinson
18 Parasecoli, Fabio Knowing Where It Comes From
6 Patrick, Kevin The Phantom Unmasked
1 Sandhoff, Michelle Service in a Time of Suspicion
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15 Tuggle, Lindsay The Afterlives of Specimens
8 Twemlow, Nick Attributed to the Harrow Painter
19 Ventura, Steve, ed. Good Food, Strong Communities

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15 Afterlives of Specimens, The
8 Attributed to the Harrow Painter
12 Framing Fan Fiction
Heart Stays Country Meditations from the
Southern Flint Hills
gary lantz

3 Good Apples
19 Good Food, Strong Communities
11 Heart Stays Country
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16 Hope Isnt Stupid
18 Knowing Where It Comes From
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