American reader series

"A collection of nine short stories connected by clumsy encounters, personal impotence, and the allure of transgression"--.

"Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character that is neither protagonist nor antagonist, but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one-you or Oklahoma? Dinah Cox lives in her hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she teaches in the English department at Oklahoma State University and is an associate editor at Cimarron Review."--.

A collection of short stories by Adam McOmber, including his "The Automatic Garden," "A Memory of His Rising," ""Gardens of the Moon," "Egyptomania," and others.

A collection of twelve interviews in which the poet Li-Young Lee discusses his family's struggle with political oppression in China and Indonesia, his spirituality and writing practices, and his advice for young poets.

A collection of prose meditations and vignettes on a wide variety of topics such as eating cereal with bananas, high-school shyness, fake diamonds, and chance meetings.