Rose City Rose City by Jean Harper Price: $16.00 178 pages trade paper ISBN: 0922811652 LCCN #: 2005024682 Rose City: A Memoir of Work is about what works in us. Jean Harper..., and resilient grace in her new home town and in herself. "Rose City: A Memoir of Work offers readers many pleasures the close observation of workplace skills and behaviors, the vibrant... some issues that have arise about memoir. Memoir isn't simply a narrative of the sensational or the celebrated or the extreme life excitingly recounted; it isn't only the provenance...

, and memoir have been published in The Iowa Review, Living Forge Journal, and Cimarron Review, among others. She is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University East..., and the publication of her award-winning memoir, Rose City, seem to have been predestined. My hobbies as a child were reading, designing nature walks in my parents back yard, and making books...

A Language Dark Enough A Language Dark Enough by Tony Whedon Price: $16.00 248 pages trade paper ISBN: 092281158X LCCN #: 2004003509 Combining travel memoir, literary criticism..., and his cool observations bring the work to a different level. His self-imposed exile has many of the elements that make good travel memoirs even better: whimsy, grace and contemplation... is not really travel writing, but it takes you somewhere somewhere blue in language like Dante's dark enough." Belle Waring"The book is a well-written, unusual mix of memoir, travel writing...

of Nolen's book in 1990, Mid-List has published several more books that also fall under the broad umbrella of "creative nonfiction," including memoirs and collections of nature writing..., trade paper ISBN: 092281158X $16.00 More Rose City : A Memoir of Work by Jean Harper 178 pages, trade paper ISBN: 0922811652 $16.00 More Out Here in the Out There : Essays...

advantage of the limber, liberal implications of its genre. Its methods range from memoir to speculative essay to satirical sketch, and its subjects from human foibles...