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Richard Fluck

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Richard Fluck retired from full-time work in 2011, worked part time in Franklin & Marshall College's Office of College Grants for five years, and has now retired fully.
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Rico Stays

Rico Stays is the final novel in Ed Duncan’s Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. As he did in the other two books in the series, Pigeon-Blood Red and The Last Straw, Duncan…
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite

In 2011, the Korean American writer and teacher Suki Kim taught English to the sons of North Korea’s elite. This book explores her experiences there and, as she writes, “My goal was to write a book that humanizes North Koreans.”
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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Native Country of the Heart was the right book at the right time. It read like a personal letter from Cherríe Moraga to me, and I will be forever grateful…
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Salt Houses

If you’ve ever built a sand castle in the intertidal zone at the ocean’s edge, you know what happens when the tide comes in: It washes away your castle, leaving not a trace of it except in your memory or a photograph.
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The Last Straw

When Jeffrey Phillips, a poor teenager in Chicago, shoots and kills a man in a carjacking gone sideways, Sandra Yanders, a teen witness from “the other side of the tracks,”…
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Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

Sycophancy (ˈsikəˌfan(t)sē) is the phenomenon known to most of us by alternative words or phrases such as sucking up, ass kissing, brown nosing, and bootlicking—words and terms that give sycophancy…
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939

Volker Ullrich Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase As the son of a WW II veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, I grew up hearing stories…
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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

One of Di Giovanni’s themes in her book The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria is “the velocity of war,” the speed with which it descends upon a country, whether it be Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, or Syria. The book is based on Di Giovanni’s reporting from Syria during the six-month period, June–December 2012.
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Ben Ehrenreich, on assignment for Harper’s magazine, went to Palestine’s West Bank in 2011 to report on Israel’s water war with Palestine. The Way to the Spring is based on his eye-witness account of life in the West Bank—in the village of Nabi Saleh and the cities of Hebron and Ramallah.
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Music and the Armenian Diaspora

Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, on a high-stakes project. I actually liked…
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To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing. 6 1
Stephen Newton shares his path from the world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films" subjects. 3 0
"In my childhood, it wasn’t unusual for the crashed remains of fighter planes to be unearthed by farm activity. The fascination of that endurance of past events in the landscape informs my work, I think, in part because I enjoy the notion of the reversal that Garner so brilliantly demonstrated. People think they shape the land. But the land shapes them. Though I’m sure that anyone from an indigenous community reading that would think it was no great insight." - Mark Wagstaff 2 0
'Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.' 8 0
"I write about equity and social justice, just maybe because I want to love this world and I want it—I want us, the people of the world, to treat each other better, or at least move closer to trying. I write about equity and social justice because I spent forty-plus years trying to address it through our educational system, and I don't want to waste the insight I've gained. Loving the world means seeing it as it is and as it might be and doing what I can—which is, now, to write." 3 0
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Commencement speech @fandmcollege, May 2022. 3 0

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