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This work offers the writings and thoughts on Kansas of 17 authors. The contributors’ views span the period 1910 to 1994: they show not only a physical love of Kansas…
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Thomas Fox Averill
Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and…
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When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood’s ballad Tennessee Stud, he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out…
Raised in the traditional kitchen from which his mother runs her Buen AppeTito catering service, Weston Tito Hingler’s childhood is shaped by the foods he eats. Filled with recipes and…
It’s Christmas, and Carol Dickens’s life is in major transition. As her world spins out of control, Carol seeks refuge in her research on the use of the semicolon -…
Explores the relationship between fathers and sons, the dead and the living, the natural and the unnatural. This work reveals the ordinary and the extraordinary genius of a place, a…
Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest’s continuing cultural vitality and the stature and…
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