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HopwoodThe Newsletter Vol. LXX, 1 http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/ January, 2009 HOPWOODHOPWOOD You are all cordially invited to attend this year’s awards ceremonies. The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, January 20, with a fi ction reading by Tobias Wolff fol- lowing the announcement of the awards. Mr. Wolff is the author of This Boy’s Life, In Pharaoh’s Army, The Night in Question, Old School, and Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. The Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, April 22, with a lecture by Ellen Bry- ant Voigt. She is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Messenger: New and Select- ed Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton & Co., 2007); Shadow of Heaven (2002), which was a fi nalist for the National Book Award; Kyrie (1995), a fi nalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award; Two Trees; The Lotus Flowers; The Forces of Plenty; and Claim- ing Kin. Both awards ceremonies will be held in the Rackham Amphitheatre at 3:30 p.m. The 71st Annual Summer Hopwood Awards were announced by Professor Nicholas Delbanco on September 25. The judges were John Lofy and Jennifer Metsker (Hopwood Award winner). And the winners are: Nonfi ction: Anya Dudek, $1,500; Joshua M. Munro, $1,500 Fiction: Jennifer Riemenschneider, $2,500 Poetry: Jessi Holler, $2,500 Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry: Meghann Rotary, $500; Molly Gail Shannon, $700 Continued, page 2 photophotoby by EleElenana Seibert Seibert photo by BarBarryry Goldstein Goldstein Inside: TOBIAS ELLEN 2 Publications by Hopwood Winners 2 -books and chapbooks Wolff Bryant 3 -articles and essays 4 -reviews Voight 5 -ﬁ ction 5 -poetry 8 -audio 8 -ﬁ lm 9 -drama performances and publications 9 News Notes 11 Awards and Honors 14 Deaths 14 Special Announcements Editortorr Andrea Beauchampa Design Anthony Cece Publications by Hopwood Winners* Books and Chapbooks Ronica Bhattacharya Bijou Roy, a novel, forthcoming from St. Martin’s in Fall 2009. Gillian Bradshaw The Sun’s Bride, a novel, Severn, 2008. Victoria Chang Salvinia Molesta, poems, University of Georgia Press, 2008. Alex Cigale Chronicle of Calamities, chapbook, Pudding House, 2008. Paula Coppedge From the Trenches to Classrooms: Continuing Education at Case Western Reserve University and the Evolution of ACE, Eagle Creek Press, Solon, OH, 2006. Joe Friedman The Dream Workbook, nonfi ction, Carroll and Brown (UK); published by Orion Children’s Books (UK): Boobela and Worm, 2007 (chosen as one of the children’s books of the year by The Times); Boobela and the Belching Giant, 2007; and Boobela, Worm and Potion Power, 2008. Joe writes that each of the Boobela books “has four two-thousand word stories and brief interludes between them. The artist, Sam Childs, is brilliant.” The books haven’t been published in America yet but may best be ordered from Amazon in Canada. See www.boobela.com. Mary George The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know, Princeton University Press, 2008. Susan Jane Gilman Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, a memoir, Grand Central Publishing, forthcoming in March, 2009. Richard Goodman The Soul of Creative Writing, will be published in paperback early in 2009 Derek Green New World Order, stories, Autumn House Press, 2008. Matthew Hittinger Platos de Sal, a chapbook sequence, which will be published by Seven Kitchens Press in late spring 2009. Sarah Houghteling Pictures at an Exhibition, a novel, Knopf, 2009. Bill Ivey Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, University of Califor- nia Press, 2008; edited with Steven J. Tepper, Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life, Routledge, 2008. Josie Kearns Alphabet of the Ocean, poetry, March Street Press, 2008; The Theory of Everything, poetry, Mayapple Press. Valerie Laken Dream House, a novel, Harper, 2009. Gregory Loselle Phantom Limb, a poetry chapbook, Pudding House Press, 2008. Joe Matuzak Eating Fire, poetry, forthcoming from Wayne State University, Spring 2010. * Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. 2 Karyna McGlynn I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, poetry, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, forthcoming from Sarabande Books in Fall 2009; Alabama Steve, Destructible Heart Press, 2008. Rose Melikan The Blackstone Key, a novel, Touchstone, Simon & Schuster (US) and Little, Brown (UK), 2008. Two sequels, The Counterfeit Guest and The Mistaken Wife are due in 2009 and 2010. Lyle E. Nelson My John Tyler: A Rare Career, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2008. “It is one in a series, mostly completed, that will include biographies of all 43 presidents. Some First Ladies also published. Tyler was the 10th president.” Bich Nguyen “Bich recently signed a two-book contract for two novels. Short Girls will be published in 2009 and a second (as yet untitled) novel will follow in 2011” (information from Porter Shreve). Paula Spurling Paige A translation of Unmarried Women: Stories by the Neapolitan writer Matilde Serao, Northwestern University, Fall 2007; translation from the Italian of A Small-Town Marriage by Marchesa Colombi; Northwestern University Press, 2001; both books were written in 1885. Porter Shreve When the White House Was Ours, a novel, Houghton Miffl in, 2008. Ted Solotaroff The Literary Community: Essays 1968-2008, Sheep Meadow Press, 2008. Holly Wren Spaulding The Grass Impossibly, poems, Michigan Writers Cooperative Press, 2008. Anne Stevenson Stone Milk, poems, Bloodaxe (U.K.), 2008. Jan Wahl Bear Dance, illustrated by Monique Felix, Creative Editions, 2008. Rosmarie Waldrop A translation of Dichten =, No. 10: 16 New (To American Readers) Poets (with A. Duncan, et. al), Burning Deck, 2008; translated Quisite Moment by Anne Portugal, Burning Deck, 2008. Ronald Wallace For a Limited Time Only, poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. He continues to co- direct the creative writing program in Madison, Wisconsin and to edit the University of Wisconsin Press poetry series. Martha Zweig Monkey Lightening, poetry Tupelo Press, forthcoming in 2009. Articles and Essays Sven Birkerts “In the Commissaries of Hell,” AGNI #67, 2008; “Table Talk,” The Threepenny Review, Summer 2008; “The Advertent Eye,” AGNI #68, 2008. Yoni Brenner “Shouts & Murmurs: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers,” The New Yorker, July 21, 2008. Phyllis Bronstein with B. J. Fox, J. L. Kamon, and M. L. Knolls, “Parenting and gender as predictors of moral courage in late adolescence: A longitudinal study,” Sex Roles, LVI, 2007; with G. S. Ginsburg and I. S. Herrara-Leavitt, “Parental predictors of motivational orientation and academic performance in early adolescence: A longitudinal study,” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, XXXVI, 2005; “The family environment: Where gender role socialization begins,” a chapter in Handbook of girls’ and women’s psychological health, edited by W. Worell and C. Good- heart, Oxford University Press, 2005. 3 Nigel Gearing “‘What Became of Waring?’: Class Reunion at Cambridge,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2008. David Gewanter “Poets on Novels: on Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee,” NOR: New Ohio Review #4, 2008. Richard Goodman “My Beautiful Ann,” appeared in the inaugural issue of Conclave. “It Sounds So Much Better When You Say Mal de Mer,” appears in the recently published anthology, Fishing’s Greatest Misadventures. Matthew Hittinger A contribution to Dustin Brookshire’s blog, “Why Do I Write?” Lawrence Joseph “Notions of the Other,” TriQuarterly #131, 2008. William Lychack “Captives of the Junta: Letter from Burma,” The American Scholar, Fall 2008; “Borrowed Fathers,” Backtracks Magazine, Winter 2008. Derek Mong “Dramatic Custom-Built Spanish Colonial,” Cream City Review, XXXII, 1, Spring 2008; “O h i o—,” forthcoming in Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes. Randon Billings Noble “On Looking,” The Massachusetts Review, Summer 2007; “War Weary from a Dangerous Liaison,” The New York Times, November 16, 2008. Marge Piercy “Why Do We Collect Pictures of Cats?” Forward, Painting Cats by Deborah Dewit March- ant, 2008; “Cinnamon Lamb,” Celebrity Recipes, National Museum of American Jewish His- tory’s Gala Album, 2008; “The Fall,” Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, 5th Edition, edited by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano, McGraw Hill, 2008; an interview with Marge Piercy, New York Quarterly #64. Sarah Sala “An Interview with Forker Girl, Thylias Moss;” with Ben Israel, “An Interview with Writer and Undertaker, Thomas Lynch,” Oleander Review #2, Fall 2008. Porter Shreve Published three Op-Eds in the New York Times in May, during the week leading up to the Indiana Primary: “Hoosier Time,” “Clinton at the Crossroads,” and “Feeling Blue in Indiana.” Dr. Sherman Silber With Mark P. Connolly, Michael S. Pollard, Stijn Hoorens, Brian R. Kaplan, and Selwyn P. Oskowitz, “Long-term Economic Benefi ts Attributed to IVF-conceived Children: A Lifetime Tax Calculation,” The American Journal of Managed Care, XIV, 9, 2008. Reviews Michael Byers “Three Novels of China,” a review of Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein, Peony in Love by Lisa See, and A Free Life by Ha Jin, Michigan Quarterly Review: A Special Issue on China, Spring 2008. Emery George A review of The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II by Krisztián Ungváry, East European Quarterly, XL, 2, June 2006. Neil Gordon A review of The Devil’s Footprints by John Burnside, The New York Times Book Review, April 13, 2008. Laurence Lieberman “Dunya Mikhail: The Laggard Bird,” a review of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail, The American Poetry Review, May/June 2008. 4 Jess Row A review of Beijing Coma by Ma Jian, NYTBR, July 13, 2008. Porter Shreve Reviews of: Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles in the Chicago Tribune; The Blue Star by Tony Earley in the Boston Globe; and Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing in the Boston Globe. Edmund White a review of Wartime Writings, 1943-1949, The War: A Memoir, and The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras, The New York Review of Books, June 26, 2008.

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