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Cappello shares how she met Marty Pops, the first man she fell in love with. In those days, the early 1980s, when the life of ideas and desire and flirtation were all bound together, never neatly severed, when ingenues sleeping with their English professors was de rigueer, when so many in the male professoriate were on the prow, she remembers being cornered by Pops among a crush of people in a crowded room. To this day, she conveys she still fails to recognize what drew her to him.

Analyzing the works of Marquis de Sade and Michel Foucault, Sharlin shares what she thinks of sex, separateness and marriage. She then sets out to prove that Foucalt was wrong about modern life.

Lambda Literary Award finalist Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious,The Nearest Exit May Be Behind Youis a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around you-whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the \"official stories\" about how gender and sexuality work. S. Bear Bergman's first book wasButch is a Noun(Suspect Thoughts Press). Ze is an activist, gender-jammer, and author of two books and three award-winning solo stage shows. Bergman recently relocated to Burlington, Ontario, from New England.

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the wordserendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abusedserendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who \"manages serendipity\" for the U.S. Navy. The story ofserendipityis fascinating; that ofThe Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950s by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influentialOn the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.

Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? The Spread of Novels explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Demonstrating that translation was both the cause and means by which the novel attained success, Mary Helen McMurran shows how this period was a watershed in translation history, signaling the end of a premodern system of translation and the advent of modern literary exchange.

Sjoholm presents several translated excerpts of Emilie Demant Hatt's travel memoirs in the Swedish Lapland. More specifically, the excerpts are taken from near the beginning of With the Lapps in the High Mountains (1913), and describe experiences shortly after Demant Hatt arrived in the Swedish Lapland by train in June of 1907. In the first excerpt, \"Setting Out,\" Demant Hatt writes of staying with Finnish settlers in Kattuvuoma before crossing the Torneträsk Lake to Laimolahti, where a small Sami community had one of their summer encampments. Among other scenic observations, it is also interesting to note that the Finns and the Sami shared religious beliefs, namely the Laestadian faith. For this purpose, one of the Sunday services is described in \"Sundays,\" the second excerpt.

Hijiya reminisces the life he experienced in Spokane Washington wherein race relations between Japanese, whites, and blacks mattered. Among other things, he narrates that their nameless neighborhood was mostly white, but with an enclave of Japanese. Their church, however, was in a more heterogeneous part of the city, where whites, blacks, and Japanese lived on the same block, though rarely in the same house.

Rosolowski discusses the significance of the Turkish Embassy Game which she and her friends played while still schoolchildren in Poland, while also commenting on the conditions of the country reeling from the effects of World War II. For her, the Turkish game is not simply a memory, since it captures the forces at work as a child--as a number of children socializing with each other and a different culture in ways that marked their temperaments, their ways of thinking, and even their ways of being in the world. Thus, when she and her friends created the Turkish Embassy Game, they made and remade the maps they saw in the adult world.

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the \"foremost interpreters of . . . our recent contemporary moment.\" Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, daunting subject through what is fundamentally a conversation between two writers. Reactions to Sontag tend to be polarized, but Lopate's account of Sontag's significance to him and to the culture over which she loomed is neither hagiography nor hatchet job. Despite admiring and being inspired by her essays, he admits a persistent ambivalence about Sontag. Lopate also describes the figure she cut in person through a series of wry personal anecdotes of his encounters with her over the years. Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. But while crediting her successes, Lopate also looks at how her taste for aphorism and the radical high ground led her into exaggerations that could do violence to her own common sense, and how her ambition to be seen primarily as a novelist made her undervalue her brilliant essays. Honest yet sympathetic, Lopate's engaging evaluation reveals a Sontag who was both an original and very much a person of her time.