November 2001
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AFRICAN AMERICAN SATIRE The Sacredly Profane Novel
by Darryl Dickson-Carr (Associate professor of English, FSU)
University of Missouri Press
Dickson-Carr has written the first book-length study of African-American
satire and the vital role it has played. In the process, he investigates
African-American literature, American literature and the history
of satire.
THE MONGO MANGO COOKBOOK and everything you ever wanted to
know about mangoes
by Cynthia Thuma (B.A. '45, College of Arts and Sciences)
Pineapple Press Inc. Sarasota, Fla.
This specialty cookbook goes far beyond mango recipes and delves
into mango history, legend, literature and lore. The recipe portion
includes mangoes in salads, meat and seafood dishes, desserts,
drinks, salsas and chutneys.
BEYOND A PHYSICAL DISABILITY The Person Within A Practical
Guide
by Evelyn West Ayrault (B.S. '75, College of Education)
Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, NY.
Evelyn Ayrault is a clinical psychologist who was born with cerebral
palsy. Her message and book are intended to alert anyone closely
involved with a disabled individual, as well as professionals
in the health care field, to the psychological dynamics below
the surface of a physical disability.
OUR SOLARIAN LEGACY Multidimensional Humans in a Self-Learning
Universe by Paul Von Ward (M.A. '69, College of Arts and Sciences)
Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Charlottesville, Va.
Independent scholar Paul Von Ward attempts in this book to bring
order to intellectual and experienced chaos, grounding humans
in a truer sense of their stellar history, inner capacities and
potential destiny. He asks the questions and offers startling
but reassuring new answers.
CROOKED RIVER BURNING
By Mark Winegardner (English professor, FSU)
Harcourt Brace, New York, N.Y.
Without a knowledgeable guide, you might visit Cleveland and
never really delve into its deep rock-and-roll roots. Fortunately,
Mark Winegardner is on hand to show you around. His second novel
is a big book on Cleveland and all its characters great and small.
"Crooked River Burning" recounts most of the lives
of the finely drawn David Zielinski, Anne O'Connor, their big-shot
fathers and a host of the city's citizens across every conceivable
social and economic strata.
THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT
by David Kirby (English professor, FSU)
Louisiana State University Press
To read any of the poems in this collection is to find yourself
in the company of a fine companion - a convivial storyteller,
stand-up comic and wry observer of the human condition.
A glance at the table of contents tells you to expect the unexpected,
with titles such as "Catholic Teenager from Hell Goes to
Italy," "Roman Polanski's Cookies" and "Moderation
Kills (Excusez-Moi, Je Suis Sick as a Dog)."
BLACK BOX, INC.
By Ray Canterbery (FSU professor of economics)
iUniverse.com
For those of us dying to know what it would be like to get inebriated
and jabber about economics, "Black Box, Inc. ," the
first novel by FSU economist Ray Canterbery, provides a strong
hint. Reading this hilarious satirical take on not only numbers,
but also politics, physics, love and God is a little like being
at an office party and having something fizzy slipped into your
drink. Everything's off kilter and before you know it you're
running into walls.
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