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Michelle Latiolais

On the faculty of our very own campus, Michelle has just released her newest novel, "A Proper Knowledge" Reviews: "The novel counts-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."-Ron Carlson, author of "Five Skies" Michelle Latiolais is associate professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her novel "Even Now" won the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction in 1991.

A Proper Knowledge
by Latiolais, Michelle
"The novel counts-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."-Ron Carlson, author of "Five Skies"

"A ravishing intelligence is at work in these pages."-Elizabeth Tallent, author of "Honey," on "Even Now"

A gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism in this beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain-and the heart.

Michelle Latiolais is associate professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her novel "Even Now" won the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction in 1991.

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Created by the American Academy of Poets, National Poetry Month is a perfect time to reflect on the important place of poetry in literature, and renew your appreciation of a good poem!

A Yes-Or-No Answer: Poems
by Shore, Jane
In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature new phase as a member of the baby boom generation. Recalling her Jewish childhood in New Jersey, living in the apartment above the family's clothing store, Shore lovingly imagines her parents, now gone, reunited with relatives over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. The poet's teenage daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of her mother's own hippie days. Cherished items left behind -- an address book, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll -- continue to haunt the living. The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory through precise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a generation at a crossroads.

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