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Fall, 2007 |
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Silvis M’76 has collected a Drue Heinz Literature Prize, two fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award,
five fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for fiction,
playwriting, and screenwriting, and an IUP Distinguished Alumni Award. His
latest book, the launch title for what the publisher calls “a new line of
fabulist and new wave fabulist fiction from Omnidawn Books,” is
In a Town Called Mundomuerto. This is Silvis’s ninth book
of fiction, and it chronicles jealousy and superstition among inhabitants of
a small Central American fishing village who are visited by a mysterious
stranger who might—or might not—be a dolphin-man. |
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novels by W. Ivan Wright ’80 are being published this year.
Black People: For Entertainment Purposes Only appeared in the
spring, while
Indentured Scholars: The Inner City Scandal was due for release
in October. According to Wright’s publisher, Able Journey Press, “Ivan’s
books deal dramatically and humorously with the many threads of the African
American experience.” |
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Dunbar ’82 is the lead singer of Grayscale, billed by its
label, Alamo-Sunset Records, as an “alternative rock entity.” Also
known as an “alterna-pop band,” Dunbar and fellow musician William
Weaver released their first album,
That Flawless Flashing Day, in May and soon followed
with a remixed and remastered album, Grayscale, that
had previously been self-produced. A publicist for Alamo-Sunset
Records said Grayscale is being played in rotation on several
Internet indie radio outlets and won Artist of the Month recognition
last November on iChannel. |
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 A
unique regimental history by Dennis Brandt M’73 focuses on the
soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War
Community was published last winter by University of
Missouri Press. According to a release from the publisher, “The 87th
drew its men from the Scotch-Irish and German populations of York
and Adams counties in south-central Pennsylvania—a region with
closer ties to Baltimore than to Philadelphia—where some citizens
shared Marylanders’ southern views on race while others aided the
Underground Railroad.” Brandt is an independent researcher who lives
in Red Lion, Pa. |
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Dietitian April Meredick Rudat ’00 has produced what she describes
as “a practical, fun, and research-based guide to breastfeeding and
parenting multiples” in
Oh Yes You Can Breastfeed Twins! Based in part on her
own experience, the book gives what she feels is badly needed
information “especially since Pennsylvania breastfeeding rates are
low.” This fall, Rudat is teaching a master’s-level course, Maternal
and Child Nutrition, at Marywood University in Scranton. Information
about her book is available at
www.ohyesyoucanbreastfeedtwins.com. |
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