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1 Antipodes … Holly Goddard Jones

2–3 Khabaar … Madhushree Ghosh

4 Challenging Pregnancy … Genevieve Grabman

5 The Illusion of Simple … Charles Forrest Jones

6 What Flies Want … Emily Pérez

7 These Dark Skies … Arianne Zwartjes

8 The Plea … Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf

9 They Don’t Want Her There … Carolyn Chalmers

10 Clock and Compass … Mark Monmonier

11 All Is Leaf … John T. Price

12 The City We Make Together … Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman

13 Behind the Big House … Jodi Skipper

14 To Find a Pasqueflower … Greg Hoch

15 The Natural History of the Snakes and Lizards of Iowa … Terry VanDeWalle

16 Fandom, the Next Generation … Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, editors

17 The American Pipe Dream … Max Shulman

18–19 Recently Published

W H AT FLIES WA N T 20 Recent Book Honors

P O E M S

E M I LY PÉREZ
21 Index by Author

22 Index by Title, Subject

23 Exam and Desk Copy Policies, Contact Information

24 Ordering Information

25 Sales Representation

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Cover photo by Madhushree Ghosh, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey

of Food, Memory, and Family
 Antipodes
Stories
by Holly Goddard Jones

“Holly Goddard Jones is one of our greatest storytellers—

period—and Antipodes is a testament to her continued mastery,
wit, and grace. Brimming with unparalleled empathy for their
characters, these stories prove, once again, that Goddard Jones
knows us better than we know ourselves.”
—David James Poissant, author, Lake Life

“Holly Goddard Jones writes like a force of nature; her prose is

strong, solid, and full of power. Her voice is miraculous in its
ability to be singular even while she takes on eclectic premises
and themes. Goddard Jones is one of our best writers, and
Antipodes is her best book yet.”
—Silas House, author, Southernmost

A harried and depressed mother of three young children

serves on a committee that watches over the bottomless sinkhole
that has appeared in her Kentucky town. During COVID lock-
down, a thirty-four-year-old gamer moves back home with his
parents and is revisited by his long-forgotten childhood imaginary
friend. A politician running for a state congressional seat and a
young mother, who share the same set of fears about the future,
cross paths but don’t fully understand one another. A woman
attends a party at the home of a fellow church parishioner and
discovers she is on the receiving end of a sales pitch for a dooms-
day prepper.
These stories and more contemplate our current reality with
both frankness and hard-earned hopefulness, realism and fab-
ulism, tackling parenthood, environment, and the absurd-but-
unavoidable daily toil of worrying about mundane matters when
we’ve entered “an era of unknowability, of persistent strangeness.”
Holly Goddard Jones is associate professor in the MFA program in
creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
She is author of Girl Trouble, The Next Time You See Me, and The Salt
Line. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
“Antipodes is rich with characters whose
lives have been upended—by pregnancy
or menopause, by aging or love, or even
by uncanny world events. Holly Goddard
Jones captures her characters’ liminal
states with deftness and skill, illuminat-
ing their uncertainties, hopes, and deep
humanity. These stories are beautifully
constructed.”—Kim Edwards, author,
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
“Holly Goddard Jones is an extraordinary
talent and the stories in Antipodes are bril-
liant, spellbinding examinations of loom-
ing threats—sinkholes, floods, illness,
assault—firmly rooted in the comfort of
routine domesticity. One minute the sus-
pense is terrifying, and the next we are
lulled into childhood memory and the mira-
cle of birth. This is a stunning collection
by an amazing writer.”—Jill McCorkle,
author, Hieroglyphics

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 Khabaar
An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
by Madhushree Ghosh
FoodStory
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, series editor

“Khabaar crackles with energy and passion. This book engages

the reader on many levels: it awakens the senses, heightens
awareness of racial and gender disparity, and perhaps above all
is a powerful love story between its author and her family and
country of origin. Ghosh has written a book that educates as it
entertains, which is no easy feat. I am enriched for having read
it.”—Dani Shapiro, author, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy,
Paternity, and Love

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that

braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigra-
tion, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks,
and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong
and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods
carried over from the old country? These questions are integral
to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter
of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during
the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a
woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps
her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.
“In Khabaar, Madhushree Ghosh shares
her unforgettable story deftly and beauti-
fully, as only a gifted storyteller can. Like
the foods that shape and inform Ghosh’s
memories and reflections, her intimate,
powerful prose is meant to be savored.
This memoir, at once global in scope and
deeply intimate, is a treasure.”
—Deesha Philyaw, author, The Secret Lives
of Church Ladies

Madhushree Ghosh works in oncology diagnostics, and is a social

justice activist. Her work has been awarded a Notable Mention
in Best American Essays in Food Writing and a Pushcart Prize
nomination. She lives in San Diego, California.

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“I have been an enthusiastic follower of Madhushree Ghosh, and
have great admiration for her literary talent. But I was not pre-
pared for this new, very powerful, and entrancing work. I highly
recommend it. It’s unforgettable.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, author,
The House of Broken Angels

“As thought-provoking as it is delicious, joyful, and a delight to

read.”—Sonia Faleiro, author, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

Hannah Claire Photography

“A seemingly effortlessly wise collection of essays that shows
again and again the ways writing about food involves more than
a story, a political history, or a family legacy, as Ghosh takes the
food essay into entirely new directions. The result is a brilliant
book about the past and the present that also feels like the
future of the form.”—Alexander Chee, author, How to Write an
Autobiographical Novel: Essays “Madhushree Ghosh is a talented and
exciting voice in the literary field. I’m
“Wildly original. With her scientific sensibility, chef’s palate, and looking forward to reading everything she
poet’s heart, Madhushree Ghosh has given us a singular and writes now and in the future. This is one
spectacular read.”—Mira Jacob, author, Good Talk: A Memoir in writer to watch.”—Nayomi Munaweera,
Conversations author, What Lies Between Us

“Madhushree Ghosh seamlessly blends stories of food and fam-

ily, longing and grief, to reveal the power of food to connect
us—to the past, to one another, to our appetites and desires, to
that which we wish to say when language fails. A book to read
with all your senses, Khabaar will break your heart and make it
swell.”—Lacy M. Johnson, author, The Reckonings: Essays

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 Challenging Pregnancy
A Journey through the Politics and Science
of Healthcare in America
by Genevieve Grabman
CHALLENGING
A Journey through the Politics and Science
of Healthcare in America

“A compelling read that educates the reader and exposes the

harms caused when our medical system treats women like
PREGNANCY
vessels.”—Julie F. Kay, coauthor, Controlling Women: What We
Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

In Challenging Pregnancy , Genevieve Grabman recounts

being pregnant with identical twins whose circulatory systems
were connected in a rare condition called twin-to-twin transfusion
syndrome. Doctors couldn’t “unfuse” the fetuses because one twin
also had several other confounding problems: selective intrauter-
ine growth restriction, a two-vessel umbilical cord, a marginal
cord insertion, and, possibly, a parasitic triplet. Genevieve Grabman
Ultimately, national anti-abortion politics—not medicine or her
own choices—determined the outcome of Grabman’s pregnancy.
At every juncture, anti-abortion politics limited the care available “Challenging Pregnancy interweaves the story
to her, the doctors and hospitals willing to treat her, the tools doc- of one very complicated pregnancy with
tors could use, and the words her doctors could say. Although she the political environment that determined
asked for aggressive treatment to save at least one baby, hospital its course. Readers will not only see the
ethics boards blocked all able doctors from helping her. overriding political concerns but also the
Challenging Pregnancy is about Grabman’s harrowing pregnancy personal turmoil. It is a reminder there
and the science and politics of maternal healthcare in the United is a story behind every ‘case’ and each of
States, where every person must self-advocate for the desired out- these stories hold value, meaning, and can
come of their own pregnancy. change the way we view the world.”
—Kathryn Marko, M.D., FACOG, George
Genevieve Grabman is a policy and communications lead at the Washington University
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She previously
served as director of Government Relations for Physicians for
Reproductive Health. An attorney, she has worked for the World
Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization.
Grabman is author of The Technology Takers: Leading Change in the
Digital Era. She lives in Washington, DC.

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 The Illusion of Simple
by Charles Forrest Jones

“Charles Forrest Jones has written an unflinchingly intimate epic:

a patchwork portrait of lives that are far from simple, in a rural
Kansas county that is anything but barren. The story pulses
with life, teems with gorgeously understated description, and
glimmers with truths that are violent, beautiful, ugly, gutting,
funny, and real. In these pages, the world is cracked wide open
to reveal people who should be stitched together by shared
wounds instead of pitted against each other for survival. And all
the while, political machinations churn as they do: absurdly the-
atrical, unethical in execution, and farcically bureaucratic. The
Illusion of Simple is an important book—one that pries open life,
bigotry, and love and its limits.”—Chris Harding Thornton,
author, Pickard County Atlas

“Deftly rendering the desolate landscape and agrarian politics of

Ewing County, Kansas, Jones reveals a rural community riven by
sins and secrets. A dusty, dark novel full of twists and turns, grief
and regret . . . and hope.”—J. Todd Scott, author, Lost River
In a dry Kansas riverbed, a troop of young girls finds
a human hand. This discovery leads Billy Spire, the tough and
broken sheriff of Ewing County, to investigate and confront the
depths of his community and of himself: the racism, the dying
economy, the lies and truths of friendship, grievances of the past
and present, and even his own injured marriage.
But like any town where people still breathe, there is also love
and hope and the possibility of redemption. To flyover folks, Ewing
County appears nothing more than a handful of empty streets amid
crop circles and the meandering, depleted Arkansas River. But the
truth of this place—the interwoven lives and stories—is anything
but simple.
“I swallowed up The Illusion of Simple in a
few sittings. Rather, it swallowed me. From
its opening pages, the novel drew me in
and wouldn’t let go. Charles Forrest Jones
does a masterful job composing a narrative
that is compelling, artful, and timely. He
takes dead aim at the reader and doesn’t
flinch; there is no illusion of simplicity
here.”—Andrew Malan Milward, author,
I Was a Revolutionary

Charles Forrest Jones is former director of the Kansas University

Public Management Center. Jones lives in Lawrence, Kansas and
Creede, Colorado.

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 What Flies Want
Poems
by Emily Pérez
Iowa Poetry Prize
In What Flies Want , disaster looms in domesticity: a family
grapples with its members’ mental health, a marriage falters, and
a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school
lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization,
the collection asks how these private and public tensions are inter-
connected. Tangled in a family history of depression, a society
fixated on guns, a rocky relationship, and her own desire to ignore
and deny the problems she must face, this is a speaker who is by
turns defiant, defeated, self-implicating, and hopeful.
PRIMER
I learned my mother’s white
tongue, her white words
in white books impressed on crisp
white pages, stories set in white countries
under soft, white snow. I’d never seen snow,
but knew enough to desire its cleansing
cold, its regions where the white-cheeked
damsel with her long, white hair could cede
space to the knight, white on his horse
who whinnied whitely. I’d never ridden a horse,
but knew to fantasize about one, as that’s what white
girls did, and even if I never got bedded
by a stable hand or CEO, some tall white man
who could explain things to me, I knew that if I learned
the white language, its syntax and rightness, then,
like a cloud pristine and drifting, I’d be lifted,
I’d look down on my dark home from that unbroken sky.
Emily Pérez is author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and coedited
The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She works as a high
school teacher and dean, and lives in Denver, Colorado.
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W H AT FLIES WA N T
P O E M S
E M I LY PÉREZ
“The poetry of Emily Pérez will not allow
what is hers to be stolen. She interrogates
what has power over her, even as it is in
her, as it has formed and informed her.
Her work takes on the forces that make
womanhood something to survive—she
looks hard at love and family and devotion
and is not afraid to make of them a sad
song, an angry anthem, an ode of vexed
joy, a complex and overflowing music. Each
note is hard-won, truly traveled, and Pérez
is a poet who knows what we live through
belongs to us: the dark fear, the radiating
beauty, the intuitive and difficult paths
between.”—Brenda Shaughnessy, judge,
Iowa Poetry Prize
“Emily Pérez is one of my favorite poets
because her work resists tidy category.
Her music is crisp and weird; her backdrop
is speculative, and most importantly she
nimbly unpacks the intense, contorting
pith of Pérez as mother/woman/artist/
Latina/trickster/white-adjacent body. We
want What Flies Want for its sweet howl call-
ing out from the trenches of a home full of
swords, of ticking time bombs, and stolen
jewels. We want poetry to be this mythically
corporeal in its excavations ‘inscribed with
girls in the woods.’”—Carmen Giménez
Smith, author, Be Recorder
These Dark Skies
Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad
by Arianne Zwartjes

In These Dark Skies , Arianne Zwartjes interweaves the expe-

rience of living in the southern Netherlands—with her wife, who
is Russian—and the unfolding of both the refugee crisis across
Europe and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria,
Germany, and the Balkans. She probes her own subjectivity, as a
white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage,
as a writer, and as a witness.
The essays investigate and meditate on a broad array of related
topics, including drone strikes, tear gas, and military intervention;
the sugar trade, the Dutch blackface celebration of Zwarte Piet, and
constructions of whiteness in Europe and the U.S.; and visual arts
of Russian avant-garde painters, an Iraqi choreographer living in
Belgium, and German choreographer Pina Bausch.
This is a lyrical, timely book deeply salient to the political
moment we continue to find ourselves in: a moment of incredible
anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment, a moment of xeno-
phobic and misogynistic violence.

Arianne Zwartjes teaches for the Sierra Nevada University MFA

program. She is author of Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy (Iowa,
2012). Her writing has been awarded the Gulf Coast Nonfiction
Prize, been a Best American Essays notable essay, and been a semi-
finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. She lives in Tacoma,
Washington.

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 The Plea
The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and
His Struggle for Redemption
by Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
William Friedricks, series editor
“The Plea is not just an impeccable piece of historical scholarship,
but a gripping work of narrative nonfiction. Devoid of any taint
of sensationalism, the book vividly reconstructs the fascinating,
long-forgotten case of an eleven-year-old committing parricide,
the boy’s long struggle to rehabilitate himself, and his ultimate
redemption. An immensely readable and thought-provoking
book—one with particular relevance in our own age of increas-
ing juvenile homicides—it will captivate both American history
buffs and fans of true crime.”—Harold Schechter, author, Manic:
The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and
his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight
days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested
and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by
both the gruesome details of the homicides and the knowledge
of the accused perpetrator—a small, quiet boy weighing just 75
pounds.
Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, com-
plex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding
light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and
the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Patricia L. Bryan is coauthor of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in Amer­
ica’s Heartland (Iowa, 2007) and coeditor of Her America: “A Jury of Her
Peers” and Other Stories by Susan Glaspell (Iowa, 2010). She lives in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Thomas Wolf is coauthor of Midnight
Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland (Iowa, 2007), and author
of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable
Major League Baseball Season of 1932. He lives in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
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prison history website
“Bryan and Wolf are not only superior
scholars but also superior storytellers
of the highest order. Meticulously
researched, The Plea grips and surprises
start to finish—revealing layers of justice
and injustices, both personal and politi-
cal and more. True crime aficionados will
be enthralled.”—Art Taylor, Edgar Award–
winning author, The Boy Detective and the
Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense
“Thanks to their scrupulous research,
Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf offer a
fascinating, richly detailed, cinematic
account of the life-sentence conviction
of eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins for first-
degree murder, his struggle for pardon
or parole, and his life after release from
prison. Thanks to the rich context they
provide, readers will learn about many
other significant issues in Iowa history,
including the history of the state peniten-
tiary in Anamosa, Iowa, and the evolution
of penal practices, legal and social atti-
tudes regarding child offenders, and even
the broader social and political history
of Iowa in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.”—Marvin Bergman,
former editor, The Annals of Iowa
They Don’t Want Her There
Fighting Sexual and Racial Harassment in
the American University
by Carolyn Chalmers
foreword by Jean Y. Jew M.D.
afterword by Martha Chamallas
“They Don’t Want Her There is a powerful and infuriating story of
sexual harassment in a prominent medical school leading to a
series of riveting courtroom dramas. Chalmers leads us through
the courtroom challenges of sexual harassment at a time when
there was very little legal precedent to draw upon. Her own
story, as a young, deeply committed feminist lawyer, broadens
the human dimension of this storied and exhilarating work.”
—Sara M. Evans, author, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America
at Century’s End
decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American
professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University
of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the
university’s College of Medicine.
As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at
Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her char-
acter by her white male colleagues. After years of demoralizing
sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without
any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional
progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew
decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer.
This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfold-
ing during the eight years of a university investigation, a watershed
federal trial, and a state court jury trial. They Don’t Want Her There
is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal
and shows today’s professional women just how recently some of
our rights have been won—and at what cost.
Carolyn Chalmers’s career as an employment litigator, law firm
partner, and mediator spans four decades and scores of cases of
sex discrimination in American universities. She lives in Minne-
apolis, Minnesota.
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women’s studies / law / higher education
THEY DON’T
WANT HER
THERE SEXUAL AND
FIGHTING
HARASSMENT IN THE
RACIAL
AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY
CAROLYN CHALMERS
“A critically important window into law,
lawyering, and rights consciousness in the
early years of legal recognition of sexual
harassment. The state of the law alone
makes this an important account, but
it is the relationship—two professional
women, medical scientist and lawyer,
collaborating in pursuit of justice—that
makes this account essential reading
for all who care about justice today.”
—Barbara Young Welke, author, Law and
the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nine-
teenth Century United States
“You don’t need to be an activist lawyer or
familiar with maddening academic infight-
ing to be captured by Carolyn Chalmers’s
compelling narrative about Jean Jew’s
righteous battle with her colleagues and
university. This is a must-read to learn
about a pivotal workplace sexual harass-
ment case.”—Jay Weiner, author, Professor
Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s
Greatest Public Historian
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 Clock and Compass
How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
by Mark Monmonier

“A leading expert in twentieth-century cartography, Mark

how
Monmonier has given us a thoroughly researched and engaging
john byron
history of John Byron Plato and his ingenious, patented clock p l a t o g av e
system for creating rural addresses. This is a must read.” fa r me r s a r e a l
address
—Judith Tyner, author, Women in American Cartography: An Invisible
Mark Monmonier
Social History

A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato

took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before
starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight
in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a
veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake
for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lum-
ber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of
Denver, Colorado, and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he “Well-written, thoroughly researched, and
advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer richly illustrated, Mark Monmonier’s Clock
eager to see his calves couldn’t find his farm, Plato realized that and Compass is more than a simple tale of
an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. an entrepreneurial cartographer. The fact
Plato’s solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direc- that Plato’s system was not widely utilized
tion and distance from a local business center to give farmers does not make the story less significant.
a real address, just like city dwellers. He patented his invention Monmonier offers insight into geography
called the “Clock System” and tried to sell it to the Post Office and mapmaking, the changing social
Department. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as landscape of rural America, and govern-
rural farming declined and technology and capitalism overtook ment bureaucracy.”—J. L. Anderson,
John Byron Plato’s chances at geographic immortality. author, Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power
in America
Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geogra-
phy and the Environment at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School
of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has authored twenty books,
including How to Lie with Maps. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

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 All Is Leaf
Essays and Transformations
by John T. Price
A Bur Oak Book
Holly Carver, series editor
“Whether writing movingly and urgently of his father’s last legal
case or exploring the absurdity of pizza night at Planet Fitness,
Price does so with a compelling goodwill that is in such short
supply these days. He masterfully balances genuine emotion
and whimsy with the sly aplomb and generous gaze of a true
midwesterner.”—Sue William Silverman, author, How to Survive
Death and Other Inconveniences
Drawing inspiration and urgency from the storied
Goethe Oak tree at Buchenwald concentration camp—and from
the leaf as symbol of all change, growth, and renewal—award-win-
ning essayist John Price explores a multitude of dramatic trans-
formations, in his life and in the fragile world beyond: “the how
of the organism—that keeps your humanity alive.”
He employs an array of forms and voices, whether penning
a break-up letter to America or a literary rock-n-roll road song
dedicated to prairie scientists, or giving pregame pep talks to his
son’s losing football team. Here, too, are moving portrayals of his
father’s last effort as a small-town lawyer to defend the rights of
abused women, and his own efforts as a writing teacher to honor
the personal stories of his students.
From his Iowa backyard to the edge of the Arctic Circle, from the
forgotten recesses of the body to the far reaches of the solar sys-
tem, this book demonstrates the ways imagination and informed
compassion can, as Price describes it, expand thousandfold the
boundaries of what we might “have naïvely considered an indi-
vidual self.”
John T. Price is professor of English and director of the Cre-
ative Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Nebraska,
Omaha. He is author of Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
(Iowa, 2012) and editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader (Iowa, 2014).
He lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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essays / nature
“All Is Leaf is a master class in the essay,
demonstrating inspiring stylistic and
emotional range. Hilarious and tender,
it opens a redemptive view of home,
self, family, and the natural world. Price
shows how humor and pathos, nature and
human nature, are two sides of the same
remarkable leaf.”—Michael P. Branch,
author, On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a
Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and
Helped Us Cure Cancer
“With a wink and a humble nod to the uni-
verse, John Price has crafted a brilliant col-
lection that captures his enchantment with
nature and delves into flights of fancy. All Is
Leaf will invite you to ponder, imagine, or
laugh with every delightful page.”
—Lydia Kang, author, Opium and Absinthe
“John Price’s roaming curiosity charges
these wide-ranging, oftentimes humorous,
always insightful, essays. This is a book to
read with pencil in hand—not only to mark
his memorable passages and phrases, but
because you’ll be flabbergasted at how
Price delivered such a beautiful smorgas-
bord of prose into your brain.”
—Taylor Brorby, author, Boys and Oil
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 The City We Make Together
City Council Meeting’s Primer for Participation

David A. Brown Photography / Houston, Texas

by Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman
Humanities and Public Life
Teresa Mangum and Anne Valk, series editors

“Following a structure that artfully replicates the political

dramaturgy of a city council meeting, this lovely and poi-
gnant book joins the messiness of politics with the experi-
ment of aesthetics. The elements of theatre turn out to be
vehicles for better understanding the stakes of essential
civic processes that we too often take for granted.”
—Shannon Jackson, author, Social Works: Performing Art,
Supporting Publics
In 2009, theatre artist Aaron Landsman was dragged by
a friend to a city council meeting in Portland, Oregon. At first
he was bored, but when a citizen dumped trash in front of the
council in order to show how the city needed cleaning up, he was
intrigued. He began attending local government meetings across
the country, interviewing council members, staffers, activists, and
other citizens. Out of this investigation, Landsman and director
Mallory Catlett developed a participatory theatre piece called City
Council Meeting.
The City We Make Together looks at how we make art with commu-
nities, how we perform power and who gets to play which roles,
and how we might use creativity and rigorous inquiry to look at
our structures of democracy anew.
Mallory Catlett is coartistic director of Mabou Mines, an associate
artist at CultureHub, and artistic director of Restless Productions
NYC. She lives in New York City. Aaron Landsman is a theatre
artist, writer, and teacher. He lives in New York City.
“This book is a fantastic and unique
examination of participatory art prac-
tices, the ethics of public engagement,
and, most importantly, how to aim the
power of imagination and collaboration
toward the idea and practice of local
democracy. A read I will return to many
times.”—Michael Rohd, artist for civic
imagination, Center for Performance and
Civic Practice
“The City We Make Together is a book that
asks what kinds of creative processes
build mutual respect within and between
communities, and how we honor the
histories of our neighborhoods and our
activism. Catlett and Landsman help
us see the ways the work we are already
doing can be made more visible and
celebrated as art.”—Rick Lowe, artist,
founder, Project Row Houses

august
288 pages . 19 color photos . 1 b&w figure
6 × 9 inches
$35.00 paper original, 978-1-60938-827-0
$35.00 e-book, 978-1-60938-828-7
politics / theatre
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 Behind the Big House
Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage
in the U.S. South

Courtesy of David Wharton

by Jodi Skipper
Humanities and Public Life
Teresa Mangum and Anne Valk, series editors

“Behind the Big House has the heart of a gorgeous

memoir and the bones of our most evocative
scholarly texts. Jodi Skipper meets readers and monuments
where we are, and chronicles superbly what it means to make,
destroy, and really rebuild a region’s history. Stunning work.”
—Kiese Laymon, author, Heavy: An American Memoir
“Skipper has illuminated for us one of the most pressing issues
in American identity—how we reckon with our own original
sin of enslavement. More than that, she’s illuminating a path
to redemption lit by thoughtful engagement, open eyes, and
open hearts. This book is the intersection of mindfulness and
hope.”—Michael W. Twitty, James Beard Award–winning author,
The Cooking Gene
When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose
stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered,
obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives
readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes
to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The
book explores Jodi Skipper’s eight-year collaboration with the
Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used
at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative
of U.S. history and culture.
In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic
approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color
negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and
its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation.
“Skipper’s book is a grassroots level journey
into prioritizing the lives of enslaved people
in historic preservation and historic rep-
resentations in Holly Springs, Mississippi,
and nationally. Behind the Big House is a
hands-on research project and heritage
tourism destination that has brought
people together for impactful conversa-
tions about race.”—Antoinette T. Jackson,
author, Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other
Side of Leisure
“Behind the Big House presents historic pres-
ervation as a form of memory activism. In
Skipper’s telling, a local effort to preserve
the legacy of slavery wends through class-
rooms, national nonprofits, ill-fitting aca-
demic benchmarks, and intimate friend-
ships. Historic preservation—and Dr.
Skipper herself—emerge as models for
work in the public humanities.”
—Dave Tell, author, Remembering Emmett Till

Jodi Skipper is associate professor of anthropology and southern

studies at the University of Mississippi. She is coeditor of Navi­
gating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region. She lives
in Oxford, Mississippi.

March
246 pages . 8 color photos . 1 color map
1 b&w map . 6 × 9 inches
$27.50 paper original, 978-1-60938-817-1
$27.50 e-book, 978-1-60938-818-8
african american studies
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 To Find a Pasqueflower
A Story of the Tallgrass Prairie
by Greg Hoch
A Bur Oak Book
Holly Carver, series editor
“To Find a Pasqueflower invites us into the love of Greg Hoch’s life:
America’s unfathomably complex tallgrass prairies. Science-
based chapters summon us to look more closely and ask more
questions. Enticing personal essays speak of landscapes of the
heart and soul—springtime’s emergence, wolves glimpsed on
the trail, the booming of prairie chickens. Hungry for prairie?
This book will feed your desires.”—Cornelia F. Mutel, author,
A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern
Woodland
The tallgrass prairie once stretched from Indiana to
Kansas to Minnesota. Most of this land is now growing corn and
soybeans. In To Find a Pasqueflower, Greg Hoch shows us that the
tallgrass prairie is the most endangered ecosystem on the con-
tinent, but it’s also an ecosystem that people can play an active
role in restoring.
Hoch blends history, culture, and science into a unified narrative
of the tallgrass prairie, with an emphasis on humans’ participation
in its development and destruction. Hoch also demonstrates how
variable and dynamic the prairie is, creating both challenges and
opportunities for those who manage and restore and appreciate it.
Greg Hoch works as a prairie habitat supervisor for the Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources. He is author of Booming from the
Mists of Nowhere: The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Iowa, 2015),
Sky Dance of the Woodcock: The Habits and Habitats of a Strange Little
Bird (Iowa, 2019), and With Wings Extended: A Leap into the Wood
Duck’s World (Iowa, 2020). He lives near Cambridge, Minnesota.
may
288 pages . 7 b&w photos . 5 b&w figures
6 × 8 inches
$19.95 paper original, 978-1-60938-825-6
$19.95 e-book, 978-1-60938-826-3
nature / midwest
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TO FIND A
PASQUEFLOWER
a story of the tallgr ass pr airie
greg hoch
“Greg Hoch has created a truly valuable
new contribution to the literature on prai-
ries. Of particular note is the depth of his
research, reflected in the amazing array
of fascinating quotes scattered through-
out the book and his comprehensive
references. Hoch poses more thought-­
provoking questions than he answers,
giving an accurate portrayal of how much
we still have to learn about prairies and
how to care for them. This is a must-have
volume for anyone interested in prairies as
a naturalist, ecologist, land manager, art-
ist, or casual enthusiast.”—Scott Fulton,
president, the Prairie Enthusiasts
“Hoch blends history, science, and personal
experience to paint a richly detailed por-
trait of the North American tallgrass prai-
rie. He also highlights the role of humans
in the development and near disappear-
ance of the prairie and the need for action
to preserve this iconic ecosystem for
future generations.”—John Blair, director,
Konza Prairie Biological Station
The Natural History of the Snakes
and Lizards of Iowa
by Terry VanDeWalle

Courtesy of Jim Scharosch

A Bur Oak Guide
Holly Carver, series editor

“This book will be cherished by anyone interested in the natu-

ral world. Professionals have been waiting a long time for this
kind of work to be published on Iowa’s snakes and lizards,
and we will use it on an almost daily basis.”—Paul Frese, Iowa
Department of Natural Resources

This book is an in-depth look at the natural history of

every single snake and lizard species/subspecies found in Iowa.

Courtesy of Terry VanDeWalle

Each of the thirty-three species accounts includes a sampling of
the common names the species has been known by in the past,
the first specimens collected in the state, and a brief history of
the early Iowa literature related to the species, along with a com-
plete description and a discussion of similar species, distribution
in the state, habitat, behavior, threats, foods and feeding, and
reproduction.
While readers will be able to identify Iowa’s snakes and lizards
through its species accounts, identification keys, and beautiful “The herpetological community has
photographs and illustrations, this book is intended to be more long awaited a publication of this scale.
than a field guide. What makes it truly unique is the comparison Comprehensive species accounts that
of historic data collected by Iowa herpetologists in the 1930s and include all essential elements of a spe-
1940s with data collected by the author, along with James L. Chris- cies’ natural history make this book the
tiansen and others, since 1960. Custom maps show the reader how authoritative volume on Iowa’s snakes
species’ distributions have changed over time. and lizards. I am eager to add it to my
professional reference library.”
Terry VanDeWalle is principal biologist with Stantec Consulting —Daniel Fogell, author, A Field Guide to
Services and an adjunct natural resources instructor at Hawkeye the Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska
Community College. VanDeWalle has been conducting research on
Iowa’s reptiles and amphibians for more than thirty years, working
closely with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service. He lives in Brandon, Iowa.

august
384 pages . 35 color maps . 46 b&w figures
129 color photos . 6 × 9 inches
$37.50 paper original, 978-1-60938-837-9
$37.50 e-book, 978-1-60938-838-6
nature
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 Fandom, the Next Generation
edited by Bridget Kies and Megan Connor
Fandom & Culture
Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen, series editors
This collection is the first to offer a close study of fan
generations, which are defined not only by fans’ ages, but by their
entry point into a canon or via their personal politics. The contrib-
utors further the conversation about how generational fandom
is influenced by and, in turn, influences technologies, industry
practices, and social and political changes. As reboot culture con-
tinues, as franchises continue expanding over time, and as new
technologies enable easier access to older media, Fandom, the Next
Generation offers a necessary investigation into transgenerational
fandoms and intergenerational fan relationships.
Contributors
Maria Alberto, University of Utah
Mélanie Bourdaa, University of Bordeaux Montaigne
Meredith Dabek, Maynooth University
Simone Driessen, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Yektanurşin Duyan, Mardin Artuklu University
Dan Golding, Swinburne University of Technology
Bethan Jones, Aberdale, Wales
Siobhan Lyons, Sydney, New South Wales
L. N. Rosales, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Andrew Scahill, University of Colorado, Denver
Janelle Vermaak-Griessel, Nelson Mandela University
Cynthia W. Walker, St. Peter’s University
Dawn Walls-Thumma, Coventry, Vermont
Neta Yodovich, University of Haifa
Bridget Kies is assistant professor of film studies at Oakland
University, where she also serves on the executive committee for
the women’s and gender studies program. She lives in Pontiac,
Michigan. Megan Connor is a PhD candidate in the Media School
at Indiana University, and a teaching fellow at Indiana University,
Northwest. She lives in Crown Point, Indiana.
august
256 pages . 5 b&w figures . 4 b&w tables . 6 × 9 inches
$70.00s paper original, 978-1-60938-833-1
$70.00s e-book, 978-1-60938-834-8
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“Kies and Connor have assembled a col-
lection of essays that are brimming with
original data. Through analysis of fans
of a range of media franchises that span
expected cult properties such as Star Wars
and Sherlock to previously unconsidered
texts like Jem and the Holograms and The
Man from U.N.C.L.E., diverse topics includ-
ing nostalgia, technology’s impact on
consumption habits, and reboot or legacy
media arise. Central to all of these essays
is the concept of identity—both individual
and collective—and how gerontological
issues are deeply intertwined with other
aspects of fandom’s intersectional identity
politics. The essays in this collection thus
initiate important debates that will hope-
fully frame fan studies for generations to
come.”—Ross Garner, Cardiff University
“Fandom, the Next Generation investigates how
fandom persists over time, whether in one
person, transmitted intergenerationally,
or around reboots or new content. With
case studies from sci-fi to celebrity culture
to novels, from the nineteenth century to
the twenty-first, the book provides a rich
variety of approaches to an under-studied
topic.”—Mel Stanfill, author, Exploiting
Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to
Manipulate Fans
 The American Pipe Dream
Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890–1940
by Max Shulman
Studies in Theatre History and Culture
Heather S. Nathans, series editor & Daniel Ciba, associate series editor

“The American Pipe Dream is a valuable contribution to the cultural

history of addiction. Assembling a new archive of plays about
alcoholism and drug habituation, and reading them in their
broader context, Max Shulman demonstrates how American

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theatre shaped our current understandings of addiction.”
—Susan Zieger, author, Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and
Sexuality in Nineteenth-century British and American Literature

The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of

addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth
century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored “Shulman’s work contributes to ongoing
material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the conversations about the role of theatre in
U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, Shulman argues the public’s understanding of health issues,
that performance was essential in creating the addict in America’s especially its complicity in the stigmatizing
cultural imagination. He demonstrates how modern-day percep- of addiction. His clear writing style makes
tions of addiction and of the addict emerge from a complex history his examination of these once-popular
of accumulation and revision that spanned the Progressive Era, plays accessible to both students and
the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. researchers.”—Susan Kattwinkel,
Chapters look at how theatre, film, and popular culture linked College of Charleston
the Chinese immigrant and opium smoking; the early attacks on
doctors for their part in the creation of addicts; the legislation of
addiction as a criminal condition; the comic portrayals of addic-
tion; the intersection of Black, jazz, and drug cultures through
cabaret performance; and the linkage between narcotic inebria-
tion and artistic inspiration. The American Pipe Dream creates active
connections between these case studies, demonstrating how this
history has influenced our contemporary understanding, treat-
ment, and legislation of drug use and addiction.

Max Shulman is assistant professor of theatre at the University of

Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is coeditor of Performing the Pro­
gressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage (Iowa,
2019). He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

june
240 pages . 10 b&w photos . 6 × 9 inches
$70.00s paper original, 978-1-60938-845-4
$70.00s e-book, 978-1-60938-846-1
theatre
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. . . Index by Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 Bryan, Patricia L. … The Plea
12 Catlett, Mallory … The City We Make Together
9 Chalmers, Carolyn … They Don’t Want Her There
16 Connor, Megan, editor … Fandom, the Next Generation
2–3 Ghosh, Madhushree … Khabaar
1 Goddard Jones, Holly … Antipodes
4 Grabman, Genevieve … Challenging Pregnancy
14 Hoch, Greg … To Find a Pasqueflower
5 Jones, Charles Forrest … The Illusion of Simple
16 Kies, Bridget, editor … Fandom, the Next Generation
12 Landsman, Aaron … The City We Make Together

CHALLENGING
A Journey through the Politics and Science
of Healthcare in America
10
6
Monmonier, Mark … Clock and Compass
Pérez, Emily … What Flies Want

PREGNANCY 11
17
Price, John T. … All Is Leaf
Shulman, Max … The American Pipe Dream
13 Skipper, Jodi … Behind the Big House
15 VanDeWalle, Terry … The Natural History of the Snakes and
  Lizards of Iowa
8 Wolf, Thomas … The Plea
Genevieve Grabman
7 Zwartjes, Arianne … These Dark Skies

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 . . . Index by Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 All Is Leaf

THEY DON’T 17
1
The American Pipe Dream
Antipodes
WANT HER 13 Behind the Big House

THERE SEXUALFIGHTING
AND
4
12
Challenging Pregnancy
The City We Make Together

HARASSMENT IN THE
RACIAL
10 Clock and Compass

AMERICAN
16 Fandom, the Next Generation
5 The Illusion of Simple

UNIVERSITY CAROLYN CHALMERS

2–3
15
Khabaar
The Natural History of the Snakes and Lizards of Iowa
8 The Plea
7 These Dark Skies
9 They Don’t Want Her There
14 To Find a Pasqueflower
6 What Flies Want

. . . Index by Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13 African American Studies
TO FIND A 8, 10 American History
PASQUEFLOWER
a story of the tallgr ass pr airie
4, 7 Current Events
7, 11 Essays
16 Fan Studies
1, 5 Fiction
2–3 Food
10 Geography

greg hoch
9 Higher Education
9 Law
2–3 Memoir
14 Midwest
11, 14–15 Nature
6 Poetry
4, 12 Politics
16 Popular Culture
12, 17 Theatre
8 True Crime
4 Women’s Health
9 Women’s Studies

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319/335-2055 (fax) ALLISON MEANS
uipress@uiowa.edu 319/335-3440 . allison-means@uiowa.edu
uipress.uiowa.edu
Acquisitions Editor
Meredith Stabel
319/335-2012 . meredith-stabel@uiowa.edu

Rights and Permissions Manager

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Translations, Foreign Rights, Film and Entertainment Rights

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 . . . Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Orders
The Chicago Distribution Center handles fulfillment
operations for the University of Iowa Press. Please
send orders and returns to:
University of Iowa Press
c/o Chicago Distribution Center
11030 South Langley Ave.
Chicago, IL 60628
800/621-2736 or 773/702-7010
800/621-8476 (fax)
orders@press.uchicago.edu
Special Sales
For information about special discounts on bulk pur-
chases of books for premiums, fundraising, and sales
promotions, contact Allison Means.
Booksellers
Books may be ordered from wholesalers or directly
from the press. Inquiries regarding discounts,
co-op availability, and author appearances should be
directed to Allison Means.
Media Requests
We offer physical or digital copies for media
requests for most titles. To learn more, visit our
website, Media Requests, or contact our marketing
department at uipress-marketing@uiowa.edu.
invoices
Purchases made through the Chicago Distribution
Center or the University of Iowa Press will generate a
Chicago Distribution Center invoice.
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Returns
Eligible books may be returned to the Chicago
Distribution Center where they will be sorted and
credited accordingly. Credit will be issued for books
received in “shop worn” or better condition and that
were purchased as a returnable title.
Returns should be sent to:
Returns Department University of Iowa Press
c/o Chicago Distribution Center
11030 South Langley Ave.
Chicago, IL 60628
Shipping
Individual domestic orders: $7.00 for the first book
plus $2.00 for each additional book. Individual
orders outside the U.S.: $13.00 for the first book plus
$7.50 for each additional book.
Libraries
We make every attempt to ensure that our books are
printed on acid-free paper. The University of Iowa
Press is a CIP publisher.
Discount Codes
Trade: no mark. Short: s. For discount schedule
or other sales information, contact Allison Means.
All prices are subject to change without notice.
...
This catalog describes new and recently published
books from the University of Iowa Press. Publication
dates, prices, and discounts are based on informa-
tion available as this catalog goes to press and are
subject to change without notice.
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Washington, D.C. 818/243-4676 (fax)
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917/664-1270
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International Orders
New York state, western Pennsylvania Eurospan Group, c/o Turpin Distribution
Bailey Walsh, University of Chicago Press +44 (0) 1767 604972
608/218-1669 +44 (0) 1767 601640 (fax)
608/218-1670 (fax) eurospan@turpin-distribution.com
bwalsh@press.uchicago.edu Alternatively, individuals and institutions may
order from Eurospan’s online bookstore:
eurospanbookstore.com.
Pacific Northwest
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Washington, Wyoming
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888/491-1248 (fax)
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