Book Description: Best of Heartlands

A collection of seventy-one original essays details contemporary fiction writers' secrets and includes helpful but sometimes contradictory advice and unique insight into writers' personal habits, featuring revelations from John Barth, Rick Moody, Melanie Rae Thon, Brett Lott, Thisbe Nissen, and many more.

Product Description: "I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the water of this internal voice. This week the water’s still, this angled pen a blue sail; the hook is lazy in the estuary, the water the color of lapis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We are a nation of consumers. But where does what we buy come from? And how are these things made? In this meditation on manufacture, Susan Neville journeys to factories and plants in the heart of Indiana, looking for the sources of things...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Twilight in Arcadia features an essay by Susan Neville, professor of English at Butler University, and the photography of Tyagan Miller. This documentary publication examines tobacco farming in Indiana and the recent changes this industry has experienced. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern American folklore, but the blue also refers to the blue of the globe as seen from space and the blue lights that flicker behind closed eyelids in the house of the imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "... a literary pilgrimage as well as a spiritual one." —Indianapolis Star"... a powerful statement about the religious diversity of America... an indispensable volume." —National Catholic ReporterThe more mobile and rootless and virtual we become as a culture, the more we long for vital connections to the places in which we find ourselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Neville’s observations on inner and outer worlds deserve a large readership." ―Studies in Short Fiction"Blending fictional and reportorial technique, Ms. Neville unwinds a tapestry of the Indiana seasons... in scene after remarkable scene she succeeds in disturbing and undermining one’s calm...read more

Product Description: Therapists are often called upon to instruct others whether students, colleagues, or the general public. This book provides the information necessary to assist practising, clinical therapists in their teaching role. The approach is practical and down to earth and no previous knowledge or experience of teaching is assumed...read more

Tells the stories of a grandmother suffering from cancer, a woman who helps her neighbor throw out her husband, a traveling magician, a pianist and his wife, and a young daydreamer