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Detached, Liz Streiff May 2017

Detached, Liz Streiff

Manuscripts

Illustration by Liz Streiff.


Interview With Meghan Daum, Julian Wylie May 2017

Interview With Meghan Daum, Julian Wylie

Manuscripts

Meghan Daum is the author of four books, most recently the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir. Since 2005, Daum has been an opinion columnist …


Retaliation, Sarah Coffing May 2017

Retaliation, Sarah Coffing

Manuscripts

Prose by Sarah Coffing.


Alopecia, Laura Wilhelm May 2017

Alopecia, Laura Wilhelm

Manuscripts

Poetry by Laura Wilhelm. Runner-Up in the 2017 Manuscripts Poetry Contest with Alessandra Lynch.


Seeing Lights, Ariana Hays May 2017

Seeing Lights, Ariana Hays

Manuscripts

Illustration by Ariana Hays.


Fake Tales Of San Francisco, Caroline Hyde May 2017

Fake Tales Of San Francisco, Caroline Hyde

Manuscripts

Prose by Michelé Strachota.


Summer People, Claire Christoff May 2017

Summer People, Claire Christoff

Manuscripts

Poetry by Claire Christoff.


Alana Williams, Jebri — May 2017

Alana Williams, Jebri —

Manuscripts

Illustration by Jebri.


Interview With Robert Wrigley, Matthew Del Busto May 2017

Interview With Robert Wrigley, Matthew Del Busto

Manuscripts

Robert Wrigley is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (2013), which won him the Pacific Northwest Book Award. During his visit to Butler, Wrigley sat down to talk with Manuscripts staff member Matt Del Busto about his most recent collection, titled after Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, written almost 400 years prior. They discussed the power of poetry and melancholy in our lives. In 2016, Wrigley retired from a forty-year teaching career and currently lives in Idaho “in the woods on the side of a mountain” with his wife.


Illicit, Chelsea Yedinak May 2017

Illicit, Chelsea Yedinak

Manuscripts

Prose by Chelsea Yedinak.


Fools, Caitlyn Zegiestowsky May 2017

Fools, Caitlyn Zegiestowsky

Manuscripts

Illustration by Caitlyn Zegiestowsky.


Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff May 2017

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

Manuscripts

Includes table of contents and editor's note.


Kingdom Come, Kirk B. Young Jan 2017

Kingdom Come, Kirk B. Young

Graduate Thesis Collection

A secret service agent returns home to reconcile with his wife just as the Rapture begins. His scramble to reunite with her becomes all the more urgent when a violent cult begins terrorizing the city in its final hours


Poetry As The Scholar's Art: An Interview With Poet Amy Newman, Julie Miller Jan 2017

Poetry As The Scholar's Art: An Interview With Poet Amy Newman, Julie Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

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Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: A Historical Fiction Detailing The Trauma Of Mental Institutions In The Mid 1940’S, Jessica Klingensmith Jan 2017

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: A Historical Fiction Detailing The Trauma Of Mental Institutions In The Mid 1940’S, Jessica Klingensmith

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Out of Sight, Out of Mind is a historical fiction that details the trauma of one character, Francie, when she is admitted to a mental institution against her will in mid-1940’s America. Francie suffers from severe bipolar depression, which was poorly understood and had little treatments during this time. Different characters take turns narrating this piece, demonstrating how different perspectives can provide insight into the same circumstance. Francie’s family must cope with complicated family relationships and mental illness throughout this narrative, which serves as the first segment of a future novel.


Marathon, Tristan Durst Jan 2017

Marathon, Tristan Durst

Graduate Thesis Collection

Marathon is a novel about a young girl who is not born into the best family, who sets out to make a family for herself.


Collect Your Dead, John Eckerd Jan 2017

Collect Your Dead, John Eckerd

Graduate Thesis Collection

Since the bizarre disappearance of his wife, mountaineer Abbot Boone's life has spiraled into a pit of alcoholism and alienation. But then a wealthy and desperate widow hires Boone for an impossible task: to recover her husband's dead body from the peaks of Mount Everest. With nothing to lose and debts mounting, Boone enlists a team of exiles and misfits to attempt the climb. But if Boone is to conquer the mountain, he will first have to survive the pressure cooker of Everest Base Camp, brutal subzero temperatures, and ultimately confront the mystery of his own grief


When Poetry And Humor Get Hitched, Christian Hartselle Jan 2017

When Poetry And Humor Get Hitched, Christian Hartselle

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Through humor, poetry explores the imagination and the mind just as it does through other means of expression. Comic poetry finds the truth in the illogical and in the absurd; it finds what unsettles us through its use of surprise; it finds delight and play in the unknown and uncertain. By its very nature, comic poetry clings to the edges of what we know, so pinpointing its characteristics is tricky. But the shared characteristic of all comic poetry is the permission the poet grants herself to disobey boundaries. The poet chooses not to fit her works within the reader’s expectations, …


Beneath The Foundation, Michele Cooley Jan 2017

Beneath The Foundation, Michele Cooley

Graduate Thesis Collection

Beneath the Foundation is a work of fiction, a detective novel that follows protagonist Cheryl Simpson as she’s thrust into the middle of a murder mystery. Cheryl lives a quite life, an attempt at hiding from her past, but when she arrives at work one Saturday morning and finds her boss dead of a gunshot wound, she finds herself pulled into the middle of the investigation. Clues start popping up all around her, and once they start showing up in her apartment, she realizes there’s more at stake than figuring out who killed her boss. As Cheryl works through the …