ABOUT THE BOOK: There is a
"becoming" Jane Austen who delights Victorians, spinsters, and
weenies — and who disgusted Mark Twain. There also exists a nastier Jane Austen
who challenges traditional notions of fitness and propriety. Much of this Jane
vanished when her sister Cassandra burned many of her letters. However, a
caustic Jane Austen remains to be appreciated in her novels, juvenilia, and
surviving correspondence. With a variety of insights afforded by
psychoanalysis, Regency history, and evolutionary theory, (as well as Proust
and Casanova and Stendhal), the author recovers a Jane Austen who is
unbecoming, adult, entertaining—and truly classic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steve Bachman is the
co-founder of The New Orleans Art Review
and four books of art and literary criticism.
ROUGH
MAGICKE by John Wm. Houghton
'75
ABOUT
THE BOOK: Rough Magicke is a
remarkable witch’s brew of supernatural, Christian, classical and scientific
arcana, served up at an all-too-real Midwestern military school. "An
occult thriller, scary, learned, and charitable in the true tradition of
Charles Williams and his fellow Inklings," wrote T.A. Shippey, editor of The
Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories..
"Intellectual and literary, Rough Magicke juxtaposes the arcane and the sacred while providing
a glimpse of the divine. It’s Dead Poets Society with a dash of Harry Potter and The Name of the Rose." adds Mike Brotherton, author of Star Dragon (Tor Books, 2003) and Spider Star (2006). "Rough Magicke is Goodbye, Mr. Chips meets The Father Brown Mysteries, with the welcome and in fact sorely needed addition
of witchcraft, telepathy, quicksand and magic rings," raves Mark O'Donnell
'76 of Broadway's HAIRSPRAY fame and author of Getting Over Homer from Knopf.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John William Houghton grew up in Culver,
Indiana (a town his family founded in 1844), and was graduated from Culver
Military Academy in 1971. A prize-winning historian with degrees from Harvard,
Yale, Indiana and Notre Dame universities, he has taught English and Religious
Studies, served as a school chaplain, and contributed to both Tolkien the
Medievalist and The Harper
Collins Encyclopedia of Catholicism.
Dr. Houghton is also the author of Falconry and other poems, published by
Unlimited Publishing LLC in 2003. Houghton’s verse has been described as
"a seamless modernization of Robert Frost." The characters of these
poems show us glimpses of a spiritual world hidden, not in the forest paths and
stone fences of New England, but in the equally rugged landscape of human
relationships. The metrical discipline hidden within the seemingly natural speech
of Houghton's characters reflects contemporary sensibilities in a transparent
mirror of classical forms and structures. While a few of the poems have
appeared previously in such publications as The Living Church and The Classical Outlook, this is Houghton's first book-length collection of
poetry -- a remarkable work of literature for the sophisticated reader of
verse.
SUMMER
LOVE by G. Wayne Miller '76
ABOUT THE STORY: Ben
Houghton is in his late 30s, married and living an artist's life made possible,
in part, by his wealthy father. He spends summers at the family estate on Block
Island, a place that holds many memories for him. The best is the one great
love of his life: Serena Fisher, a beautiful young woman he met the after
graduating college. Serena is back. A story of passion and obsession.
ABOUT THE WRITER: G. Wayne
Miller is an author, journalist and filmmaker. His seven books include TOY
WARS: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies that Make
Them and KING OF HEARTS, which is in Hollywood development. Miller is the
producer and writer of ON THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, a
documentary about the tuberculosis epidemic that will be broadcast on PBS in
2009.
Harvard Square Editions Anthology Of Short Fiction
ABOVE GROUNDis a
work of Living Fiction by contemporary authors engaged in a generative literary
dialogue readers are welcome to join. These novel excerpts and stories range
from romance with a ghost, to a modern Grapes-of-Wrath family quest, to lawlessness
in a remote island ‘paradise’, to surfing the 'Outernet' of the collective
unconscious. The variety and unexpected forms of the authors’ intelligence and
wit is enthralling. Dedicated to bringing together diverse and extraordinary
voices, the Above Ground
anthology of Living Fiction is unique because it’s generative.
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