Library Journal Editor’s Pick Reader’s Digest “Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time” “Witty and insightful.” —Reader’s Digest “Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta’s Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families.” —Library Journal Editor’s Pick citation Lesson Plans chronicles the lives of three California families who choose to homeschool for different, deeply personal reasons. Patterson is a straight-laced insurance adjuster who has recently discovered both surfing and God and convinces his wife to homeschool their rambunctious twins. David is a liberal stay-at-home dad who feels stuck in suburbia and throws his energy into homeschoolong his three “ducklings.” Wedding photographer Keith has just separated from Beth, a full-time mom struggling to manage her own private chaos. And there’s Jennifer, Keith and Beth’s precocious daughter, who copes with severe allergies and doesn’t understand why she’s not attending school and seeing friends like she used to. Will homeschooling provide balance and harmony for these families? Or will it bring unforeseen challenges and stress? In this captivating and funny debut novel, Suzanne Greenberg takes a serious look at the choices parents profess to make on behalf of their children, as well as the unpredictable ways in which new relationships can change our lives. Suzanne Greenberg is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children and a guide to creative writing. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults. A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.
The characters in Speed-Walk and Other Stories often find themselves dislocated, living in places that do not resemble or feel like home. Their lives have somehow been turned on their axes, and often they cannot comprehend why. The stories in this stunning debut collection are united by their protagonists' common quest to make sense of the world, to bring it into focus, to set it right, to adapt.In selecting Suzanne Greenberg's fiction for the 2003 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Rick Moody wrote, "A charge sometimes leveled against contemporary fiction these days is that it has abrogated its responsibility to depict civilization as it actually exists. . . . Speed-Walk replies forcefully to this aesthetic error by locating its protagonists in completely recognizable environments. . . . [They] are ever engaged by the routines of American life: walking the dog, eating at the sushi bar, doing the laundry." Tightly written yet realistically spare, these stories provide a blueprint for survival when the unexpected is thrust into an ordinary life.
When eight-and-a-half-year-old Abigail Iris gets the kitten she has been wanting, she learns about the responsibilities that come with pet ownership, as well as the impact a kitten can have on a large family.
This innovative creative writing book is based on the notion that inspiring ideas can be found in the everyday ordinariness of our lives, even in the murky soup bubbles in the kitchen sink. The enjoyable and inviting exercises are designed to lead you to those ideas and to help you work with them, whether you want to write poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. In essence, this book presumes that the life you are living is already a writer's life. If you complete these exercises, regardless of how you complete them and regardless of the quality or merit of the results, you who will be doing what creative writers do--you will be a writer.--Back cover.
In Everyday Creative Writing the reader will find the prospecting tools of the trade - from freewriting and free association to puzzles and computer gaming.
During the last decades of the 19th century, America's expanding wealth and influence moved progressive thinkers to evaluate the role of public institutions in providing for the welfare of a growing population. This title explores how photography helped drive social reform in America at the end of the 19th century.
A transformation in O is Wilfred Bion0́9s most esoteric concept. O stretches contemporary psychoanalytic thought out of object relations and into the numinous. Much has been written in attempts to understand O, and to understand Bion0́9s shift into what some consider to be more mystical realms. Pages have been written regarding the philosophical origins of O, such as Kant0́9s things-in-themselves and Keats0́9 negative capability. Explorations of the analyst0́9s experience of their patient0́9s transformation in O are lacking in the literature. This research questions whether a transformation in O occurs as a dynamic within the field between patient and analyst. Using Giorgi0́9s phenomenological method, the researcher interviewed analysts who believe they have borne witness to their patients0́9 transformation in O. This study is significant because it illuminates lived experiences of O, which allows for a deeper understanding of the interplay between patient and analyst within the consulting room.
This is a collection of 37 of the most important, enduring, and influential essays by one of the great linguists of this century, gathered from a wide range of journals and books spanning four decades.
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