Literature

Best to Laugh A Novel Lorna Landvik 2015 Fall

Minnesota funny girl takes Hollywood by storm in inimitable Lorna Landvik style

Grace Above All Jane St. Anthony 2015 Fall

The touching companion novel to The Summer Sherman Loved Me

The Summer Sherman Loved Me Jane St. Anthony 2015 Fall

A middle grade novel about love, family relationships, and what it means to grow up

The Poetics of Information Overload From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Paul Stephens 2015 Spring

What does avant-garde poetry have to say about information technology? A lot.

Dead Letters Sent Queer Literary Transmission Kevin Ohi 2015 Spring

Proposes a new model of literary transmission and tradition

Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring

Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris

Imagine the Sound Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights Carter Mathes 2015 Spring

Examines the use of sound in the works of African American writers during the post–Civil Rights era

The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall

Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author

Leif the Lucky Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2014 Fall

A delightful tale of the young Viking explorer Leif Erikson—the first European to set foot on America, 500 years before Columbus

The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami Matthew Carl Strecher 2014 Fall

A journey through the mysterious metaphysical realm where Haruki Murakami’s strangest characters lurk, bizarre scenes unfold, and dark secrets emerge

At the End of the Road Jack Kerouac in Mexico Jorge García-Robles 2014 Fall

Chronicles Jack Kerouac’s experiences and inspirations in Mexico

Mayor of the Universe A Novel Lorna Landvik 2014 Fall

Lorna Landvik launches science fiction into comic territory in this tale of a Walter Mittyish dreamer exploring universal truths

Insistence of the Material Literature in the Age of Biopolitics Christopher Breu 2014 Fall

A provocative reconsideration of experimental fiction from the late twentieth century

Stealing Thunder Mary Casanova 2014 Fall

The gripping tale of a young girl’s desperate attempt to save the horse she loves

When Eagles Fall Mary Casanova 2014 Fall

An intense adventure story of girl versus nature in Minnesota’s north woods

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