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- Mercer, Jacob Ian
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- : ______________________________________________________________________ Keith Scribner The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed
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- Katz, Tanya
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- . Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- me aid long term: Joy Johannessen, A.M. Homes, Mike Wilkerson, Pat Aungier. Thanks to Keith
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- . Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an
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- DeTal, Trev
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- "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
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- Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- , including Susan Rodgers, Keith Scribner, and Tracy Daugherty; my colleagues in the graduate workshop
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- writing: To my committeeTracy Daugherty, Keith Scribner, Chris Anderson, and Courtney Campbell for their
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- , Keith and JoAnn Lutz for their unquestioning love and support. Joann for showing me how to love reading
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- the surface. She has helped me to breathe as a writer. Thanks also to Tracy Daugherty, Keith Scribner
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- Aguilar, Joseph R.
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- This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
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- Masters Thesis
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- stories; Marjorie Sandor, Tracy Daugherty, and Keith Scribner, who, for whatever reason, decided to give
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- Oleson, Wendy E.
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- This thesis is the first third of a coming of age novel called i. In this selection the central character, Bea Bouvier, prepares to see her estranged mother on a cruise ship to the Bahamas. She hopes her parents will decide to reunite as a family, though it becomes increasingly...
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- Masters Thesis
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- a better writer and teacher, and thanks to Keith Scribner for making all of this writing business
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- Richter, Amanda M.
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- This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
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- Masters Thesis
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- , especially Tracy Daugherty, Keith Scribner, and the incomparable Marjorie Sandor for her many careful
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- Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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- Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Daugherty and Keith Scribner for their guidance and advice on craft during my time at Oregon State
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- Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
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- These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Sandor, Lisa Ede, and Douglas Warrick for their time and commitment; Tracy, Marjorie, and Keith
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- Boothman Duyck, Tracy
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- The Yogiebogeybox is a novel-in-stories. This novel explores spiritual transcendence and the connection of art to that spiritual journey. A variety of points of view are employed in the narrative in order to depict the journey of the protagonist, Ant Malo, through this journey. Some of the narrative threads are...
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- Masters Thesis
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- program at Oregon State University: Lutz, Miftaraj, Bluhm, Stephens, Harris, Young; all hard core. Keith
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- Weber, Joshua D.
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- The Gospel: According to Matt is a novel, told in the first person, simple past tense, depicting the struggle of a young man attempting to make sense of his relationship with his estranged father as he wrestles with a growing crisis of faith. Matt is deeply sincere in his desire...
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- Masters Thesis
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- , Tracy Daugherty, Marjorie Sandor, and Keith Scribner, for the nurturing environment they foster
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- Haskins, Isabelle
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- Kiddie Pool is a collection of eight short stories dealing in general terms with themes of culpability and control. The characters in the stories have their share of problems—car accidents, domestic violence, manic depression, obesity, unexpected deaths, truth or dare, religious crises—but they are resilient souls who keep on keeping...
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- Masters Thesis
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- invaluable. Thanks also to Ted Leeson, Marjorie Sandor, Karen Holmberg, and Keith Scribner, and to my