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  • The fifth floor and other stories

    Creator:
    Mercer, Jacob Ian
    Abstract:
    The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed connection and exposure—about lonely men in specific places.
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    : ______________________________________________________________________ Keith Scribner The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed

  • Kingston Beach

    Creator:
    Katz, Tanya
    Abstract:
    This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach, a redemptive novel about a horrific event. The book chronicles the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in which Jay and Margot lose two of their three children while vacationing at the beach. Jay is a pediatric heart surgeon already highly...
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    Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach

  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
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    Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
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    . Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is

  • There were bears and rumors of bears

    Creator:
    Miftaraj, Andre M.
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    There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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    me aid long term: Joy Johannessen, A.M. Homes, Mike Wilkerson, Pat Aungier. Thanks to Keith

  • The long house

    Creator:
    Harris, Gregory A.
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    The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
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    . Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an

  • A fool's marathon

    Creator:
    DeTal, Trev
    Abstract:
    "A Fool's Marathon" is a fabulist novel exploring themes of Platonic love, imagination and its relationship to reality, and psychological coming of age through the exploits of a young Oscar Duplenty. The work-in-progress is presented in two sections: the first a contiguous five chapters from the beginning of the newest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , and one was tall: the short one was white, and the tall one was brown. “Who is king but Epiphanes

  • The wish list of Arturo Chan

    Creator:
    Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
    Abstract:
    This collection of loosely-linked stories explores the lives of a set of characters who exist in the margins of society, but quietly so. In the opening story, "Two-Minute Histories," an ostensibly negative act—breaking and entering, among other verifiable crimes—is demonstrated to lead to some positive outcome such as a moment...
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    , including Susan Rodgers, Keith Scribner, and Tracy Daugherty; my colleagues in the graduate workshop

  • Headwater

    Creator:
    Martens, Jacob L.
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    These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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    writing: To my committeeTracy Daugherty, Keith Scribner, Chris Anderson, and Courtney Campbell for their

  • Fallow

    Creator:
    Lutz, Kevin W.
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    Fallow is a creative non-fiction book of memory and place. It chronicles the lives of William and Vera Lutz and their lives of struggle on the Northern Plains of North Dakota. It follows a narrator and his attempts to make sense of, and connect to their, lives following both of...
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    , Keith and JoAnn Lutz for their unquestioning love and support. Joann for showing me how to love reading

  • Always talk to strangers

    Creator:
    Buck, C. Nathan
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    Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
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    the surface. She has helped me to breathe as a writer. Thanks also to Tracy Daugherty, Keith Scribner