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Alumni Type: Recent Books By IU Graduates
Whatever might be said about his death, it would be dang near impossible to exaggerate reports of Mark Twain’s life, which was every bit as full and adventurous — and quintessentially American — as his greatest novels. Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years (Random House, 2010), by MICHAEL SHELDEN, MA’75, PhD’79, disputes the standard view that Twain’s last few years were dark and depressed, showing how he flirted with showgirls, teased the king of England, fought with Mary Baker Eddy — and deliberately cultivated his iconic image. Shelden, formerly a correspondent for the The Daily Telegraph in London and a critic for the The Baltimore Sun, has written biographies of George Orwell and Graham Greene. He is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University.
Read in a gulp, the poems in Threshhold (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), by JENNIFER RICHTER, BA’91, speak of illness, pain, and mother-love with an almost novelistic breadth and directness. Taken separately, each stands equally well alone in its careful craft. Richter has been leading poetry workshops for 17 years, including four years at Stanford, as well as stints teaching poetry to schoolchildren and to recovering substance abusers. She currently teaches for the Stanford University Online Writer’s Studio, and she lives in Oregon with her husband and children. Threshold won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award.
Just as the first wave of Baby Boomers hit retirement, a new book by PHILIP B. STAFFORD, PhD’77, Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America (Praeger, 2009), offers a take on getting old that gets away from the dreary options that dominate popular discourse: fade away, unloved, in a substandard nursing home or exercise hard enough, eat right enough, and save enough money to remain middle-aged up to the end. Stafford argues we should be thinking instead about the importance of place, and he takes a close look at why some places work better than others in helping elders thrive. Stafford is director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community’s Center on Aging and Community and an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at IUB.
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