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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth century—including Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, and Francesca Turina—and radically changed the conversation on public mourning. Engaging with broader intellectual discussions around gender, the history of emotions, the politics of mourning, and the construction of community, Widow City argues that widows served as key models demonstrating to readers not just how to mourn, but how to live well after devastating loss. At the same time, widows were figures of great anxiety: their status as unattached women, and the public performance of their grief, were viewed as very real threats to the stability of the social order. They are thus key to broader intellectual understandings of community and civic life in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Drawing on the example of two friendships of Elizabeth Montagu, this essay argues that \"virtue friendship\" was the standard against which eighteenth-century men and women, especially the Bluestockings, measured their personal relationships. Deborah Heller argues that this virtue-based, rational ideal of friendship ultimately derived from Aristotle and his treatises on ethics. Feeling and affect are indeed essential components of this virtuebased model of friendship, but they need to be directed toward what is truly lovable, the friend's moral goodness. Although we see tokens of \"love\" language in Montagu's correspondence, they represent claims of sincerity and truthfulness toward the other person that must be redeemed over time. The only way of redeeming these claims is through continuous communication and mutuality. Heller argues, finally, that the intersubjective structure of virtue friendship had important social consequences as well—through its very pragmatics of subjective truthfulness and sincerity.

Ellie Haskell, the protagonist in Dorothy Cannell's mystery series, demonstrates that the bumbling detective model of information seeking, evaluation, and use can be just effective as information-literacy approaches to problem solving. Here, Overmier stresses that bumbling detectives, despite their bumbling, exhibited a high degree of information literacy.

I was fortunate to grow up with a school library, a local lending library, and--an hour or so up the coast by train in Sydney--the New South Wales State Library and its fabulous Mitchell Reading Room. Discovering that place was like finding Narnia in the back of a wardrobe. My grandmother is not Anikka Lachlan, the central character in The Railwayman's Wife, although I did take Anikka's husband, Mac, away from her in a train accident similar to the one that took my grandfather from my grandmother. And I did give Ani my grandmother's job--my grandmother became the local institute's librarian after her husband's death in 1951, and I've heard extraordinary stories, since the book was published in Australia in 2013, about widowed women employed by the railways as librarians, as station mistresses, as laundresses. Yet that Ani could be a librarian.

To his credit, [John Updike] saved his best work, Endpoint, for last, and how many authors can say that? Endpoint is a poignant collection of poems that he wrote during the last seven years of his life. He organized them into a book just a few weeks before he died. Several of the poems seem to have been written right from his hospital bed. They are wistful and airy and yet very sad.

In 1990 [Elizabeth Boyle] began putting in some serious writing time and completed three manuscripts. She entered her fourth in Dell Publishing's Diamond Dell Contest. Boyle's submission was one of five finalists, but she hadn't finished it yet. After five frantic weeks, Boyle finally typed \"The End\" two days before the deadline and then missed the last FedEx shipment out of Seattle. So her husband, Terry, booked a Sunday flight to New York City and hand delivered the manuscript.

Dixon's new collection explores the heart of an aging man's life.

Jones features winner of the International Reading Association's 2004 Children's Book Awards for \"Young Adult-Nonfiction\" Miriam Stone's book, At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoir. In the book, Stone expresses emotions she dared not reveal to her family when her mother's imminent death became a reality.

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