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Jose Felipe Alvergue
purplish

New American Canon

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

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Samuel Rafael Barber
The Box in Which We Live

Encompassing a wide range of formal approaches and genres, Samuel Rafael Barber captures the disparate manifestations of power and powerlessness in this era of global neoliberalism. The stories in The Box…

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Michael Blouin
The Political Poe

The Political Poe examines the collective works of Edgar Allan Poe through a political lens. While others have gestured toward Poe's gloomy conservatism, Michael J. Blouin argues that Poe's reaction again…

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Martyn Bone
The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

New American Canon

This book considers the full range of Jesmyn Ward's career thus far. Martyn Bone examines key themes running throughout Ward's writing: Black life in the U.S. South; the legacies of slavery and segregatio…

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Andrew Brininstool
High Desert Blood

High Desert Blood unveils the conditions that led to the infamous 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico riot and its aftermath. Snaking through the storyline are inmates Gary Williams, a nonviolent first-time o…

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Daniel Ciba
Blue Roses

Blue Roses documents a queer response to one of the most popular American playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams. Referencing Williams's symbolic nickname for Laura in The Glass Menageri…

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Aaron Colton
Writing Through Writer's Block

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan…

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Coreen Derifield
We Were Still Ladies

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

Following World War II, women living in small towns and on farms across the Midwest woke every morning and headed out for a long day of work in a nearby factory. This transition into industrial work cause…

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Hasan Dudar
Carryout

In the late 1970s, Ziad Idilbi, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, marries Salma, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the very last time, the couple opens a corner …

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Divya Garg
Decolonizing Media Fandom

"Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Anglo-American, and able-bodied. Research about racially and culturally diverse fans is usually undertake…

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Melody S. Gee
We Carry Smoke and Paper

Answering an unexpected call to faith in her thirties, Melody Gee contends with what saying "yes" to conversion requires of an adopted daughter of Chinese immigrants. She looks for answers and c…

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Ted Geltner
Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures

The year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write. His…

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William Green
This Is the Route of My Forefathers

The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans--and most Americans--know little about them. In This Is the Route of My Forefathers, William Green elevates an understudied history by synthesizi…

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Chandra Owenby Hopkins
Southern Stages

Studies Theatre Hist & Culture

Through the eyes of actors and everyday people, Southern Stagesoffers an engaging new model for interrogating the performance of southernness, as well as how memory and imagination intersect in spaces tha…

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Bruce Johnson
Love, Dirt

From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a trip to…

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Samantha Kimmey
The Extremities!

One day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. Kim initially believes the disorder--as she refers to it--will disappear…

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Youna Kwak
For This and Other Cruelties

CALIBA's 2025 Golden Poppy Book Award Winner, PoetryThe shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak'sFor This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold e…

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Courtney Ann Lafaive
Follow the Signs

If you have ever been asked "What's your sign?" you have Linda Goodman to thank--or blame. America's first New Age celebrity, Goodman's 1968 book, Sun Signs , sold over 60 million copies, while …

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Pat Lipsky
Brightening Glance

Brightening Glance offers a stunningly self-revealing portrait of the struggles and sacrifices, joys and excitement inherent in a modern painter's life, and captures the evergreen allure of New York's art…

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Addie Mahmassani
Air Split Open: Odetta, Joan Baez, and the American Folk Movement

Nearly a decade ago, Bob Dylan fan Addie Mahmassani took a look at her large collection of books on the 1960s folk revival and asked what was missing. The answer was obvious: There was no feminist analysi…

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