Indiana Winter

Literature & Fiction

Neville, Susan

History & Criticism

Indiana Univ. Pr

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.

In the House of Blue Lights (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

United States

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

In the House of Blue Lights is an award-winning collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern 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. “It was January when he brought her here. She had accepted that on the maps of the world there were these green and brown places called continents floating in the cradle of blue, and that these continents had centers and that she would be living there and that it would take her for the rest of her life at least a full day, by train, to reach the ocean. She married my grandfather believing that their river would be blue. She pictured something like the Gulf, a warm vein in a landscape she’d seen only in photographs or paintings. She had never in her life seen snow. She pictured her married self as a blue-eyed princess living by the blue water in a world of snow and ice. With a blue sky that stretched from east to west . . . But you know how, when you head north toward the Great Lakes, somewhere in Tennessee or Kentucky you can see ahead of you, in the winter months, how the sky lowers its slab of gray and there’s that line of opaque clouds like a wool blanket being pulled up over your head until you can’t see anything outside of it?” ―Excerpt from “Blue” by Susan Neville, In the House of Blue Lights

University of Notre Dame Press

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. The focus is on the adult learner and a wide range of topics is covered including psychological and social factors in teaching and learning, assessment and evaluation. Several teaching methods are also described together with a discussion of their advantages and disadvantages. This book should be interesting reading for all therapists looking for a practical guide to successful teaching.

Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Therapists (Skills for Practice)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Butterworth-Heinemann

Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters—and her settings—are, most of them, midwestern. There is the staunchly midwestern wife in the story "Kentucky People," for instance. She was born in this house in this Indiana town, a world far removed from people like Mrs. Lovelace, next door, transient people "who have followed the industrial revolution from Kentucky to Indiana and most of whom are now in Texas." Nothing really out of the way has ever happened to her. Now she "shivers with excitement" when she is called upon to help Mrs. Lovelace throw her husband out—helps her haul all of his belongings out onto the porch: underwear, shoes, whiskey bottles, rolltop desk, even "wedding presents from his side of the family."
The collection moves from the playful tone of "Johnny Appleseed," in which the author takes an old fecundity myth and does something different with it, to the wise and poignant story of an elderly woman attending a family gathering at which she recognizes the separateness from her children and grandchildren that the cancer within her has given her. It has been months since any one of them has kissed her on the mouth. There are so many things that she would like to tell them, "but they don't want to talk about it, each one of them positive that he is the one human being in the history of the earth who will never ever die."
All of the stories in this unusual first collection stick in the reader's mind long after he has read them.

The Invention of Flight: Stories

Univ of Georgia Pr

Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters―and her settings―are, most of them, midwestern. There is the staunchly midwestern wife in the story "Kentucky People," for instance. She was born in this house in this Indiana town, a world far removed from people like Mrs. Lovelace, next door, transient people "who have followed the industrial revolution from Kentucky to Indiana and most of whom are now in Texas." Nothing really out of the way has ever happened to her. Now she "shivers with excitement" when she is called upon to help Mrs. Lovelace throw her husband out―helps her haul all of his belongings out onto the porch: underwear, shoes, whiskey bottles, rolltop desk, even "wedding presents from his side of the family."The collection moves from the playful tone of "Johnny Appleseed," in which the author takes an old fecundity myth and does something different with it, to the wise and poignant story of an elderly woman attending a family gathering at which she recognizes the separateness from her children and grandchildren that the cancer within her has given her. It has been months since any one of them has kissed her on the mouth. There are so many things that she would like to tell them, "but they don't want to talk about it, each one of them positive that he is the one human being in the history of the earth who will never ever die."All of the stories in this unusual first collection stick in the reader's mind long after he has read them.

Literary

University of Georgia Press

Winner of FC’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange. Dolls walk down the streets, cradling their empty heads and letting the wind turn them into flutes. A politician heads to Washington, DC, and leaves a toxic underground plume in his wake. A woman eats car parts instead of confronting the children who have forgotten her. A young woman falls in love with the robot who took her job at the candy factory. In The Town of Whispering Dolls, it is usually the grandmothers and the children who grieve. Feeling invisible, in the story “Here,” a woman who has buried her children looks up at the sky where commercial and military jets fly overhead and tries to express her rage to the rich and powerful: “Keep flyingying above us in your planes. From one coast to the other, keep right on flying over us! We test your bombs and your beloved warriors. Here. Right here. Look down.”

The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

Fiction Collective 2

Whether it's the simplest of prohibitions (don't use too many adjectives), or a cherished writing maxim (show, don't tell), all writers have a rule of thumb that guides their work. In this book, more than 70 contemporary writers share their own insight and revelations, offering insider tips and advice. Writers include:Jiro Adachi Steve Almond John Barth Steven Barthelme Janet Burroway Robert Olen Butler Lydia Davis Stephen Dixon Molly Giles Robin Hemley Brian Kiteley Bret Lott Paul Maliszewski Erin McGraw Pablo Medina Ander Monson Rick Moody Stewart O'Nan Gina Ochsner Thisbe Nissen Scott Russell Sanders Barb Shoup Joan Silber Joseph Skibell Melanie Rae Thom Steve Tomasula Jane Yolen

Rules of Thumb: 71 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations

Martone, Michael

Writer's Digest Books

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. 
 From these journeys, Neville learns how the process of canning tomatoes is similar to the process of making metal caskets. Watches thousands of blue globes spin through a room like planets. Learns how, and by whom, and how well, and why things are made, whether they be dolls or insulin, gyroscopes or glass. And, by focusing on process and production, Neville gives us new, uncommon perspectives from which to view our world, and ourselves.

Fabrication : Essays on making things and making meaning

Essays & Correspondence

MacMurray & Beck

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Indiana Winter

In the House of Blue Lights (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

In the House of Blue Lights (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Therapists (Skills for Practice)

The Invention of Flight: Stories

The Invention of Flight: Stories

The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

Rules of Thumb: 71 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations

Fabrication : Essays on making things and making meaning