Gravedigger's Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town
Title | Gravedigger's Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Unruh |
Publisher | Meadowlark |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2021-10-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781736223291 |
A reminder of relationships, more than skin deep. An examination of the complexities of those we love and care for. This book is a love letter to the people we carry in our hearts.
Flyover People
Title | Flyover People PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Unruh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | City and town life |
ISBN | 9780615385341 |
The Keillor Reader
Title | The Keillor Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Garrison Keillor |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101517778 |
Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the Good Poems collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
31 Days (Nights)
Title | 31 Days (Nights) PDF eBook |
Author | Reginald D. Jarrell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2024-02-15 |
Genre | Essays |
ISBN | 9781736911273 |
"Reginald D. Jarrell’s book of essays is a thoughtful exploration of experiences that molded him as a Black man growing up and raising his family primarily in Kansas. Mr. Jarrell also lived in Mississippi, Iowa, California, and Washington, D.C. As a pastor, lawyer, communications professional, and university professor, Mr. Jarrell is first of all a truth teller."--Publisher
Dragging Wyatt Earp
Title | Dragging Wyatt Earp PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Rebein |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2013-03-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0804040524 |
In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown’s Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, Rebein covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a number of Western myths, including those surrounding Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, George Armstrong Custer, and of course Wyatt Earp himself. Rebein rides a bronc in a rodeo, spends a day as a pen rider at a local feedlot, and attempts to “buck the tiger” at Dodge City’s new Boot Hill Casino and Resort. Funny and incisive, Dragging Wyatt Earp is an exciting new entry in what is sometimes called the nonfiction of place. It is a must- read for anyone interested in Western history, contemporary memoir, or the collision of Old and New West on the High Plains of Kansas.
Heads of the Colored People
Title | Heads of the Colored People PDF eBook |
Author | Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2018-04-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501168010 |
Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize * Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated In one of the season’s most acclaimed works of fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers “a firecracker of a book...a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious” (Financial Times). Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous—two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks—while others are devastatingly poignant. In the title story, when a cosplayer, dressed as his favorite anime character, is mistaken for a violent threat the consequences are dire; in another story, a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture. Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. Boldly resisting categorization and easy answers, Nafissa Thompson-Spires “has taken the best of what Toni Cade Bambara, Morgan Parker, and Junot Díaz do plus a whole lot of something we’ve never seen in American literature, blended it all together...giving us one of the finest short-story collections” (Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division).
The Media Book
Title | The Media Book PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Newbold |
Publisher | Hodder Education |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780340740477 |
The Media Book provides today's students with a comprehensive foundation for the study of the modern media. It has been systematically compiled to map the field in a way which corresponds to the curricular organization of the field around the globe, providing a complete resource for students in their third year to graduate level courses in the U.S.