The personal reflections and insights of one professor and writer on the experience of teaching at the "poorest college in America"

Grover Cleveland College is dying, and the shock is too much for the college’s founder and president, Cyrus Cleveland—a direct descendant of President Grover Cleveland—who begins to die in tandem with his school. In a last bid to save his beloved institution, he wills the college to his nephew Marcus Cleveland, a used car salesman in New Jersey who has never been to college, much less administered one. Marcus heads north to see what he can do to live up to his uncle’s expectations and save the day. Facing the impending calamity with cheer, an incorrigibly sunny attitude, and ample naivete, he is totally unprepared for the stew of discontented faculty, internecine rivalries, and unforeseen events that threaten to upend his every effort to rescue the school from the threat of extinction.

Dive into the Heart of Maine with Rivers of Ink Embark on a literary journey along the Penobscot River with Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot. Curated with care and profound insight, this anthology opens with an introduction by Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, a respected Indigenous attorney, activist, and author from the Penobscot Nation. Through its pages, Rivers of Ink offers a mosaic of voices from 61 Maine writers, each weaving a tale of the river’s indelible mark on the region’s history, culture, and daily life. A Confluence of Stories and Causes This collection is more than a literary exploration; it’s a voyage into the heart of Maine’s heritage, highlighting the Penobscot River’s vital role in industry, environmental resilience, and personal narratives of those who live along its banks. From evocative essays and compelling fiction to soul-stirring poetry, Rivers of Ink captures the essence of the Penobscot—its sights, sounds, and spirit—while addressing today’s environmental and climate challenges with hope and resilience. Supporting “A Monumental Welcome” Your purchase of Rivers of Ink supports the Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters’ campaign “A Monumental Welcome.” Proceeds will fund a new visitor contact station, priority park projects, and Wabanaki-directed initiatives, ensuring the preservation and appreciation of this magnificent natural heritage for generations to come.

Unedited Draft - Clifford Straehley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1922. He attended the University of Michigan as a premedical student for three years. Prior to graduating with his bachelor's degree, Clifford was admitted to the Harvard Medical School and graduated cum laude in !946 . He went on to surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and later taught surgical students at Syracuse Medical School, Stanford Medical School, and at the University of Hawaii. Even with his impressive career history and resume, Clifford always regretted not finishing his undergraduate degree. When he entered his early eighties, he decided to enroll at St. Mary's College of California and earned his bachelor's degree in 2005 from St. Mary's College California at the tender age of eighty-four. Today Clifford resides in Walnut Creek, California with his beloved wife Marmie. He is the proud father and grandfather to three children and three grandchildren.

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought 'primitive' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women’s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott’s Escapade to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Kelley explores how interactions between geographic movement, identity formation, and imaginative excursions produce modernist experimentation. Drawing on fascinating supplementary and archival materials such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and unpublished drafts, Kelley’s book cuts across national and geographic borders to offer rich and often revisionary interpretations of both canonical and lesser-known works.

A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. She describes FGM is the ultimate child abuse, a ritual of mutilation handed down from mother to daughter and protected by the word "culture."