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Amazon Best Books of July

Goucher College RSS — 20080710T13:21:18

Pat Willard (2005)’s America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA has been named one of Amazon’s Best Books of July. Amazon calls the book “a celebration of our nation’s table and a welcome addition to the popular food lit genre.” AmericaEats! originated as a 1935 WPA project that sent out-of-work writers (including Eudora Welty and Ralph Ellison) across the country to write about regional foods and food customs such as church suppers and county fairs. The project was never completed and instead was filed away at the Library of Congress until Pat discovered it and set out to see how many of the traditions written about by the WPA still existed. The book will be reviewed in the September issue of Atlantic.

Best Historical Memoir

Goucher College RSS — 20080627T18:34:19

The 2008 New York Book Festival has named Margaret Ahnert's (1999) book The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide winner of its Best Historical Memoir Award. The book received the USA News Best Book Award in World History earlier in the spring.

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Atlantic Monthly Award

Goucher College RSS — 20080314T15:54:37

Pamela Haag (2009) has won honorable mention in Atlantic Monthly's annual collegiate writing contest. The essay is "Resurrection City," which combines a family narrative with an historical narrative about the resurgence of evangelism in the mid-1970s. Haag recently signed a contract with HarperCollins for a book tentatively titled Marriage and Its Discontents.

Book News

Goucher College RSS — 20071114T21:13:57

Stephen Kimber (2001)'s new book Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia (1783-1792) , was released in Canada by Doubleday in May.

USA News Best Book Award in World History

Goucher College RSS — 20071115T14:58:41

Margaret Ahnert (2000) won the USA News Best Book Award for 2007 in World History.

Colorado Book Award

Goucher College RSS — 20071019T15:33:30

Shari Caudron (2005) has been awarded the Colorado Book Award.

MFA Alum to Teach in China

Goucher College RSS — 20070921T17:37:27

Paul Morris (2005) taught creative nonfiction at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, last October.

MFA Program's Newest Publications

Goucher College RSS — 20070921T12:42:44

Stewart Green's (2007) seventeenth book, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, will be released by Globe Pequot Press next March. It is a short interpretive book on the history, natural history, and geology of the park. Stewart will also be giving a photo presentation and reading from his book On the Edge: The Climber's Life, which was his Goucher thesis, at the Taos Mountain Film Festival on October 6.

The European edition of David Copeland's (2006) book Blood & Volume: Inside New York's Israeli Mafia comes out the week of September 24. David has just signed a one-year agreement to be represented by Artists & Artisans. He has been in Los Angeles pitching movie and TV show ideas while trying to sell film rights to Blood & Volume.

James Conaway's Collection of Essays

Goucher College RSS — 20071115T15:22:39

A collection of essays by visiting faculty member James Conaway was published in October.

Visiting Faculty Member Pulitzer Finalist

Goucher College RSS — 20070418T15:58:04

Pete Earley's Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. As recent students know, Pete read an excerpt from the book several summers ago when he served on the MFA faculty. He is currently a member of our visiting faculty. The book was published by Putnam Sons

MFA Student Featured in "How to Make eLearning Work"

Goucher College RSS — 20070116T20:27:38

Traci Macnamara, a student in the MFA program, was featured in an article in eLearners.com telling how "you literally can go around the world and still obtain a degree." She is stationed at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, the largest U.S. base for scientific research, while completing her degree and writing a manuscript about her adventures there. You can read the article here.

New Books from Goucher Alumni

Goucher College RSS — 20061201T15:47:10

Geoff Gilpin offers a penetrating literary-journalistic memoir.