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Interview With Marlon James, Julian Wylie May 2017

Interview With Marlon James, Julian Wylie

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Marlon James is the author of three novels, most recently A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the coveted Man Booker Prize in 2015. He is also the writer behind John Crow’s Devil, published 2005, and The Book of Night Women, published 2009. Since 2007, James has been a professor of creative writing at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has also written for numerous publications, including The New York Times. During his visit to Butler University as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, James took the time to speak with …


Elegy For My Wisdom Teeth, Claire Christoff May 2017

Elegy For My Wisdom Teeth, Claire Christoff

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Poetry by Claire Christoff.


Muros, Arisa Moreland May 2017

Muros, Arisa Moreland

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Prose by Arisa Moreland. Runner-Up in the 2017 Manuscripts Prose Contest with Kelsey Parker Ervick.


Still Life, Ariana Hays May 2017

Still Life, Ariana Hays

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Illustration by Ariana Hays.


Breathe In, Empty Out, Sonia Goldberg May 2017

Breathe In, Empty Out, Sonia Goldberg

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Poetry by Sonia Goldberg.


Putrid Pistols Ep, Carissa Marquardt May 2017

Putrid Pistols Ep, Carissa Marquardt

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Prose by Carissa Marquardt.


Deception, Stephen Neal May 2017

Deception, Stephen Neal

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Prose by Stephen Neal.


Liminal, Jessica Benzing May 2017

Liminal, Jessica Benzing

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Poetry by Jessica Benzing.


Detached, Liz Streiff May 2017

Detached, Liz Streiff

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Illustration by Liz Streiff.


Interview With Meghan Daum, Julian Wylie May 2017

Interview With Meghan Daum, Julian Wylie

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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

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Prose by Sarah Coffing.


Alopecia, Laura Wilhelm May 2017

Alopecia, Laura Wilhelm

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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

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Illustration by Ariana Hays.


Fake Tales Of San Francisco, Caroline Hyde May 2017

Fake Tales Of San Francisco, Caroline Hyde

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Prose by Michelé Strachota.


Summer People, Claire Christoff May 2017

Summer People, Claire Christoff

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Poetry by Claire Christoff.


Alana Williams, Jebri — May 2017

Alana Williams, Jebri —

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Illustration by Jebri.


Interview With Robert Wrigley, Matthew Del Busto May 2017

Interview With Robert Wrigley, Matthew Del Busto

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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

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Prose by Chelsea Yedinak.


Fools, Caitlyn Zegiestowsky May 2017

Fools, Caitlyn Zegiestowsky

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Illustration by Caitlyn Zegiestowsky.


Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff May 2017

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

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Includes table of contents and editor's note.


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.


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 …


Volume 7, Issue 3: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff May 2016

Volume 7, Issue 3: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff

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Excerpts, Manuscripts Staff May 2016

Excerpts, Manuscripts Staff

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The Weekly Theme, Helen Overton May 2016

The Weekly Theme, Helen Overton

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On Eating Grapes Downward, Betty Smith May 2016

On Eating Grapes Downward, Betty Smith

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The World Unmasks, Ted W. Sedvert May 2016

The World Unmasks, Ted W. Sedvert

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Why I Came To College, John F. Carson May 2016

Why I Came To College, John F. Carson

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Joseph Lautner--Director Entertainer, Harlan Johnson May 2016

Joseph Lautner--Director Entertainer, Harlan Johnson

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Entertainment--Two Kinds, Robert Dietz May 2016

Entertainment--Two Kinds, Robert Dietz

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