In this engaging collection, seniors from JCC Indianapolis and the Albert and Sara Rueben Senior and Community Resource Center remember small and large moments of their lives that will make you laugh, cry, and leave you full of wonder at the wide range of journeys that have brought them to now. From memories of Southaven, Michigan, an enclave for Jewish young people in the 1940's, to the horrors of Nazi Germany, these writers have not only created a legacy for their families, but also offer invaluable insights to those who want to know more about what it was like to live in their time. The...
In this engaging collection, seniors from JCC Indianapolis and the Albert and Sara Rueben Senior and Community Resource Center remember small and larg...
We hope you've enjoyed reading the poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction online for our first year of Flying Island, and we're now proud to present our first annual Best of Flying Island for 2014.
We hope you've enjoyed reading the poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction online for our first year of Flying Island, and we're now proud to present...
While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. An American Tune moves back and forth in time, telling the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she became, a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An achingly poignant...
While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a ...
Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers features over seventy-five notable Indiana poets, fiction writers, and essayists, including Marianne Boruch, Jared Carter, Mari Evans, Karen Joy Fowler, Helen Frost, John Green, Philip Gulley, Patricia Henley, Susan Neville, Scott Russell Sanders, and Dan Wakefield. The most experienced writers are in their nineties, the youngest in their twenties. Some are best-selling authors, some widely known in literary circles, some just beginning. Many were born and raised in Indiana, others found their way here and stayed.
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Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers features over seventy-five notable Indiana poets, fiction writers, and essayi...