Northern Michigan University NMU Commons All NMU Master's Theses Student Works 2012 Come with Me to Taco Tuesday: Essays and Appeals Richard Hackler Northern Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.nmu.edu/theses Recommended Citation Hackler, Richard, "Come with Me to Taco Tuesday: Essays and Appeals" (2012). All NMU Master's Theses. 402. https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/402 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at NMU Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in All NMU Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of NMU Commons. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. COME WITH ME TO TACO TUESDAY: ESSAYS AND APPEALS By Richard Hackler THESIS Submitted to Northern Michigan University In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS Graduate Studies Office 2012 OLSON LIBRARY NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY THESIS DATA FORM In order to catalog your thesis properly and enter a record in the OCLC international bibliographic data base, Olson Library must have the following requested information to distinguish you from others with the same or similar names and to provide appropriate subject access for other researchers. NAME: Hackler, Richard William DATE OF BIRTH: August 14, 1984 ABSTRACT COME WITH ME TO TACO TUESDAY: ESSAYS AND APPEALS By Richard Hackler Come with Me to Taco Tuesday is a collection of short creative nonfiction that (loosely) charts the past eight years of my life living near Lake Superior. The essays vary in style, structure, and tone, and, when read together, chart my development from adolescence (small concerns, exuberance) to adulthood (larger concerns, a more restrained exuberance).