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In this anthology, distinguished writers explore the relevance of mentors in their education and development as writers. Each author contributes an essay and a story or poem, which together give a unique sense of the forces that shape a writer's craft and vision.

2011 Eric Hoffer Award in the General Fiction2011 The Thomas & Lillie D. Chaffin Award“Alex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American literature.”Chris OffuttLike a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. These stories reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we find tactile, misbegotten characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough coal to keep an elderly woman's stove burning a few more nights. Echoing Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where in one story, a man spends seven days in a jon boat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed "Wife" watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in Southern fiction.Alex Taylor has worked as a day laborer on tobacco farms, as a car detailer at a used automotive lot, as a sorghum peddler, as a tender of suburban lawns, at various fast food chains, and at a cigarette lighter factory. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and now teaches at Western Kentucky University. He lives in Rosine, Kentucky.

Want to grow more marijuana than you can smoke? Lets Grow a Pound is an easy to follow day-by-day guide that will help you grow a bigger harvest than you ever imagined possible.SeeMoreBuds, author of the hit Marijuana Buds For Less, has taken all the guesswork out of growing indoors and harvesting more than a pound of marijuana in under three months. Each of the 73 days it takes to get to a bountiful harvest is described and demonstrated with beautiful full-color photographs. The equipment needed, set up, and each stage of growing, care taking, hydrating, feeding and identifying and dealing with potential problems are all here.This book is a must-have for anyone even interested in growing the finest marijuana around without spending an arm and a leg. The methods demonstrated in the book are guaranteed to lead a grower to success, whether they are a complete novice or an experienced "greenthumb" looking for a better way to grow.Let's Grow A Pound is published and edited by world-famous marijuana cultivator Ed Rosenthal.

Insider secrets & interview advice from the person who is hiring... the Human Resources Director. Read in an hour, take action today! Find out what you're doing wrong, break through the myths, and get the inside scoop. A must read interview guide for any high school or college student seeking to jump miles ahead of the competition. This book provides useful, practical, and easy to apply advice from a Human Resources Director --- the person who is making the hiring decision! If you are a college student who wants the inside scoop and a road map to travel the simplest, fastest, and most direct route to land the job of your dreams...this book is for you! This book breaks through the myths and points you to the fast lane! Who should buy this book: This interview guide is perfect for high school or college students seeking to jump-start their successful career. Also, this book is ideal for parents wishing to help their son or daughter define and reach their career goals!

One of the Buddha's most central ideas is the importance of transcending either/or thinking to avoid the trap of extremist views. In Beyond the Self Thich Nhat Hanh suggests that we can find tranquility by embracing all aspects of life, instead of focusing on what we like and dislike. The book contains Nhat Hanh's original translation of the Sutra on the Middle Way, as well as his commentary on how we can use this teaching to better understand how to navigate our difficulties and find peace of mind. By changing how we see the world, Beyond the Self helps us transform ourselves.

This easily accessible translation and commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way To Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on living fully in the present moment. To live alone doesnt mean to isolate oneself from society. It means to live in mindfulness: to let go of the past and the future, and to look deeply and discover the true nature of all that is taking place in the present moment. To fully realize this is to meet our appointment with life and to experience peace, joy, and happiness this realization brings. A wonderful addition to the library of anyone interested in Buddhist studies.Our appointment with life is in the present moment. The place of our appointment is right here, in this very place. Thich Nhat Hanh in Our Appointment with Life

Find peace and calm amid the busyness of your life with this new book by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Designed to be both inspiration and guidebook for those new to mindfulness practice, Making Space offers easy-to-follow instructions for setting up a breathing room, listening to a bell, sitting, breathing, and walking meditations, and cooking and eating a meal in mindfulness. Whether you live alone or with a family, this beautifully illustrated book can help you create a sense of retreat and sanctuary at home.

Lia Purpuras essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; theyre also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witnessall in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called moments of beingpreviously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. Rough Likeness finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness.

2010 ForeWord Book of the Year, EssayVaswani is a confident writer whose unflinching eye shows the reader the beauty grounded in the mundane.San Francisco ChronicleVaswanis voice is witty, sharp, innovative, unique.Chitra BanerjeeYou Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba's Tatoos, but it is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a brilliant new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family.Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends (Sarabande Books, 2004). Recipient of a 2006 O. Henry Prize, her fiction and nonfiction have been widely anthologized and published in journals such as Epoch, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner. She lives in New York City.

"Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human andtransgressive."Paula Fox"These are marvelous stories of experience and have the ripeness of wry, hard-won wisdom."Phillip Lopate"Bingham has the eye to see where a story lives, the heart to understand it, and the voiceand craftto tell it."Robin Morgan In her wise and sexy new collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day "transgressions" in affairs of the heart. She offers up a mnage trois, an older woman's affair with a student, a painter who uses his age as an excuse to behave indecorously. But the reader quickly discovers the real transgressions are those of the self against the self.