Conversations with Tim O'Brien

Edited by Patrick A. Smith
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reputation as one of ...

Hidden Harmonies

Edited by Paula J. Bishop & Kendra Preston Leonard
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Contributions by Christina Baade, Candace Bailey, Paula J. Bishop, Maribeth Clark, Brittany Greening, Tammy Kernodle, Kendra Preston Leonard, April L. Prince, Travis D. Stimeling, and Kristen M. Turner ...

Season to Taste

By Caroline J. Smith
Categories: Cooking And Foodways
Series: Ingrid G. Houck Series in Food and Foodways

2024 Honorable Mention Recipient for the Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work by One or More Authors from the Popular Culture Association

Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women ...

The Velveteen Rabbit at 100

Edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford Humes, Melanie Hurley, Kara K. Keeling, Maleeha ...

Wait Five Minutes

Edited by Shelley Ingram & Willow G. Mullins
Categories: Folklore

Contributions by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Sheila Bock, Kristen Bradley, Hannah Chapple, James Deutsch, Máirt Hanley, Christine Hoffmann, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelley Ingram, John Laudun, Jordan Lovejoy, ...

A Thousand Places Left Behind

By Peter K. Lutken Jr.
Edited by E. R. Lutken
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the ...

To Dance, to Live

By Carolyn J. Brown
With Carla S. Wall
Foreword by Leanne Mahoney
Afterword by Mona Nicholas
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Thalia Mara’s story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned ...

Abbas Kiarostami

Edited by Monika Raesch
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim ...

Comics Art in China

By John A. Lent & Xu Ying
Categories: Comics Studies

International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize – Best Art Publication

In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms ...

If You Should Go at Midnight

By Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl
Categories: Folklore

Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the ...