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  • Old-Fashioned Modernism

    Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature

    by Andy Oler ...
    The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the “heartland,” a pastoral ideal standing in for all of American culture. Alternatively, the Midwest can represent “flyover country,” part of an expansive, undifferentiated mass between the coasts. In Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lingering Inland

    A Literary Tour of the Midwest

    Edited by Andy Oler ...
    How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 72 original short essays by a diverse array of contemporary writers. Each explores locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary figures and canonical ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Michigan Salvage

    The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell

    Edited by Andy Oler, Lisa DuRose, Ross Tangedal ...
    Michigan Salvage is the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including National Book Award finalist American Salvage (2009). Her writing captures a diverse and bustling rural America, brimming with complex characters who struggle with addiction, poverty, and land degradation—issues that have become, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Roads

    Driving America's Great Highways

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  • On Freedom

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  • A Writer's Life

    The Margaret Laurence Lectures

    by The Writers' Trust of Canada ...
    For anyone who loves great literature -- or aspires to write it -- this is an essential collection, full of insight, wisdom, humour, and candour from Canada's most important and beloved literary figures.For the past twenty-five years, the Writers' Trust of Canada's annual lecture series, the Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture, has invited some of Canada's most prominent authors to discuss the ... Read more

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  • Air & Light & Time & Space

    How Successful Academics Write

    by Helen Sword ...
    From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish ... Read more

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  • The Black Prairie Archives

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    The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century.This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited ... Read more

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  • A Sentimental Education

    by Hannah McGregor ...
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