Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
MSU Press Records
UA.3.14
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
- Creator
- Michigan State University Press.
- Title
- MSU Press records
- ID
- UA.3.14
- Date [inclusive]
- 1949-2008
- Extent
- 4.5 Cubic feet
- Language
- English
Preferred Citation note
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."
Historical Note
The MSU Press began operations in 1947 under the direction of Michigan State College's Special Assistant to the President in Charge of Public Relations, and over the years it has been administered by various offices. Since 1980, the Press has reported to the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction is a literary biannual journal devoted to publishing works of contemporary nonfiction extending from the personal essay – including nature, environmental, and travel writing – to memoir, literary journalism, and personal cultural criticism. Since its debut in the Spring of 1999, the journal has been guided by the intent implied in the title: to give nonfiction its due as a literary genre by offering writers of the “fourth genre” a showcase for their work and providing readers a place to find lively and creative examples of the form. In addition to contemporary nonfiction, Fourth Genre features interviews with prominent nonfiction writers, roundtable discussions of topical genre issues, mini-essays by selected photographers and visual artists, letters from readers, and reviews and capsule summaries of current books.
Fourth Genre has received an unprecedented four Pushcart Prizes: Patricia Monaghan’s "Physics and Grief" (Vol. 5, No. 2) in 2004 Brenda Miller’s "How to Meditate" and Ladette Randolph’s "Fields of Mercy" (Vol. 3, No. 1) in 2003; Brett Lott’s "Toward Humility" (Vol. 1, No. 2) in 1999. In 2003, C. M. Mayo won first place in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for "A Touch of Evil" (Vol. 4, No. 2) and Lad Tobin won “Notable Essay of the Year” in Best American Travel Writing for "You Virtually Can’t Get There from Here" (Vol. 4, No. 2).
Scope and Contents note
The records of the MSU Press consist of Board of Directors meeting minutes (1963-1966, undated), a handbook entitled MSC Press which gives guidelines for materials submitted (1950), and two booklets which review publications of the MSU Press (1955, undated). Also included are published (1948-1950, 1954-1957) and unpublished (1957-1958, 1961-1963, 1967, 1969) annual reports.
The Fourth Genre series contains correspondence between authors and editors, between editors and outside readers, and between editors. Some handwritten working notes and drafts are included. Final page proofs with author corrections, drafts of feature items, and original manuscripts from accepted authors, many with outside reader comments, round out the collection.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Conrad Hall888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu
Revision Description
August 2012
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. The writers' contracts in the Fourth Genre series are restricted. Computer disks: See Archivist.
Legal Status note
Copyright: Michigan State University except where noted. Property Rights: Michigan State University.
Conditions Governing Use note
Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Michigan State University. Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Genre(s)
- Annual reports
- Brochures
- Catalogs
- Ephemera
- Manuscripts
- Minutes (Records)
- Newsletters
Subject(s)
- American essays
- Creative nonfiction
Collection Inventory
| Drawer | Folder | |||
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Michigan State College Press 1950 |
F.D. | 1 | ||
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Board of Directors - Minutes of Meetings 1963-1966, Undated |
F.D. | 2 | ||
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Michigan State Spring Books 1955 |
F.D. | 3 | ||
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Books for July, August and September Undated |
F.D. | 4 | ||
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Brochures and Flyers |
F.D. | 5 | ||
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Cresset Press Proposal 1949 |
F.D. | 6 | ||
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Foreword Newsletter 1993, 1994, 2004 |
F.D. | 7 | ||
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The Michigan State College Press 1950 |
F.D. | 8 | ||
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Michigan State University Press 2000, 2001 |
F.D. | 9 | ||
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Michigan State University Press Books 1963-1964 |
F.D. | 10 | ||
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MSU Press Book catalogue Fall/ Winter 2014 |
F.D. | 11 | ||
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction |
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Volume 1, Number 2 Fall 1999 |
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Log Book of Accepted Pieces and One Computer Disk |
4029 | 1 | ||
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Writers' Contracts |
4029 | 2 | ||
Volume 2, Number 1 Spring 2000 |
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Writers' Contracts |
4029 | 3 | ||
Volume 3, Number 1 Spring 2001 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Submission Letters from Writers 1999-2001 |
4029 | 4-6 | ||
Volume 3, Number 2 Fall 2001 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Accepted Manuscripts with Reading Notes and two computer disks |
4029 | 7-8 | ||
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Manuscript Acceptance Letters |
4029 | 9 | ||
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Front cover and Table of Contents |
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Front Cover and Table of Contents |
4029 | 10 | ||
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Cover Letters |
4029 | 11-14 | ||
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Readers' Comments |
4029 | 15 | ||
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Page Proofs and Page Proof Log |
4029 | 16-17 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4029 | 18-19 | ||
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Galeano, Eduardo. "Ventanas, Tejidos, Abrazos" (Windows, Weavings, Embraces) |
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Foster, Patricia. "The Intelligent Heart" |
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Lawson, Linda. "Following Nancy Home" |
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McCabe, Nancy. "The One That Got Away: On Memory and Forgetting" |
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Origer, Christopher. "The Permanence of Masks" |
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Grant, Sheryl. "Out of Place in the Bitterroots" |
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Moss, Anna. "Within this Landscape, I Find You" |
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Scalet, Sarah. "Confessions of a Weed-Hugger" |
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Andrew, Elizabeth. "On Shining Rails" |
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Haertsch, Melissa. "A Brief History of Thyme: Cosmology on the Corner Lot" |
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Eldred, Janet Carey. "Modern Fidelity" |
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Shoemaker, Jan. "Menopause and T.S. Eliot" |
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Leslie, Naton. "Janitors" |
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Poirier-Bures, Simone. "A Trip to the Dordoi" |
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Gerber, Dan. "Notebook of an Arctic Explorer" |
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Henrickson, Shu-Huei. "Sauce on the Walls" |
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Worth, Jan. "Haywire" |
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Interview: Eduardo Galeano, with Patrick Madden |
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Harvey, Steve. "The Art of the Personal Essay" |
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Kitchen, Judith. "The End" |
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Root, Robert. "Scenes, Stanzas, Segments and The Essayist's Art" |
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Ives, Peter. "Discoveries" |
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Volume 4, Number 1 Spring 2002 |
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Submission Cover Letters |
4029 | 20 | ||
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Revision Requests, Readers' Notes, and Author Responses |
4029 | 21 | ||
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Acceptance Letters with SASE's, and Some Readers' Notes |
4029 | 22 | ||
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Correspondence re. Page Proofs, Final Edits, Publication Permission |
4029 | 23 | ||
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Author Contact List |
4029 | 24 | ||
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Production Schedule |
4029 | 25 | ||
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Miscellaneous Internal Items |
4029 | 25 | ||
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Drafts of Table of Contents, Editor's Note, and Book Review |
4029 | 26 | ||
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Correspondence, Contract, and Information re. author Chris White (deceased) |
4029 | 27 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4029 | 28 | ||
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Mayo, C.M. "A Touch of Evil" |
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Cotter, Genevieve. "Hatchet" |
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Wakefield, Darcy. "Boy Crazy" |
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Hammond, Jeffrey. "The Time Machine" |
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Hales, John. "The Opening to the Womb of the World" |
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Haley, Thomas. "Resistance" |
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Chavez, Lisa D. "The Romance Writer" |
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Huber, Sonya. "My Men" |
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Rawlings, Wendy. "Virtually Romance (a discourse on love in the information age)" |
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Eidus, Janice. "Her True Face" |
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Ostriker, Alicia. "Milk" |
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4030 | 1 | ||
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Flynn, Jenny. "Strays" |
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Bergstrom, Heather Brittain. "Signs of Departure" |
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St. Germain, Sheryl. "Sweets and Shiny Things" |
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Chesley, Brent. "Jake, It's Chinatown" |
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Flaherty, Kate. "Nothing Like Las Vegas" |
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Cooksey, Fred. "Coasting" |
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Bauer, Ann M. "Echolalia" |
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White, Christine. "Reflection Rag: Uncle Joe, Roberto Clemente and I" |
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Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. "Full Disclosure" |
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Volume 4, Number 2 Fall 2002 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Submission Cover Letters |
4030 | 2-4 | ||
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Log Book Listing Author's Name, Manuscript Title, and Status of Each Submission |
4030 | 5 | ||
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Readers' Comments |
4030 | 6 | ||
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Rejection Letters, some with Readers' Comments |
4030 | 7 | ||
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Correspondence on Page Proofs, Biographical Information, Author Contracts |
4030 | 8 | ||
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Miscellaneous (E-mail on book reviews, disc labeled "Reader to Reader," form letter on page proofs, drafts of Table of Contents, handwritten notes on Place and Mortality). |
4030 | 9 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4030 | 10-11 | ||
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Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "Grand Trunk Station" (photo essay) |
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Martin, Lee. "Fire Season" |
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Eldred, Janet Carey. "Just What the Muscles Grope For." |
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Wrigley, Robert. "Seeing Arrowhead, Seeing Flint – Homage to the Makers" |
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Serber, Natalie. "The Day You Stopped Being a Cat" |
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Lin, Brenda. "Mao Dun" |
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Gates, Roberta Hartling Gates. "There Is No Right Word" |
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Husted, Bette Lynch. "Body Mechanics" |
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Ofri, Danielle. "Positive" |
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Benson, Amy. "The Moment After the Moment It Would Have Mattered" |
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Bernstein, Jane. "The Enormous Phone Call" |
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Harden, Holly. "On Migraines" |
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Patterson, Jill. "Girlfriends Solid as Rock" |
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Anderson, CB. "Lost in Dogtown" |
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Spinner, Jenny. "(My Father's Dead) If Only I Could Tell You" |
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Trahan, Marcia. "The Dark Room" |
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Tobin, Lad. "You Virtually Can't Get There From Here" |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Accepted manuscript Submission Cover Letters with SASE’s, Readers’ Comments, and Acceptance Letters |
4030 | 12 | ||
Volume 5, Number 1 Spring 2003 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Submission Cover Letters |
4030 | 13-15 | ||
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Log Book |
4030 | 16 | ||
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Outside Reader Comments |
4030 | 17 | ||
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Four Submissions: two with submission cover letters and brief reader comments attached (A. Naslund, M. Berkley), two with revision letters attached (S. Bavaria, L. Raphael) |
4030 | 18 | ||
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Editorial Recommendations |
4030 | 19 | ||
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Rejection Letters with Reader Comments Attached |
4030 | 20 | ||
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Draft of Editor's Note and Table of Contents |
4030 | 21 | ||
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Cover Letters from Accepted Authors re. Contact and Biographical Information |
4030 | 21 | ||
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Correspondence on Page Proofs |
4030 | 21 | ||
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Letter Withdrawing Essay from Consideration (C. Craig) |
4030 | 21 | ||
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Editorial Assistants Meeting Agenda |
4030 | 21 | ||
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Cover Letter from University Press, and Cover and Page Proofs |
4030 | 22-23 | ||
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Draft of Table of Contents, Author Contact List, and Form Letter to Authors re. Production schedule |
4030 | 24 | ||
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Accepted manuscripts (some with SASE's, reader comments, earlier versions, and/or cover letters attached) |
4030 | 25-26 | ||
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Merrill, Cheryl. "13 Ways of Looking at an Elephant" |
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Lawrence, Leslie. "Quiet Cabin with View" |
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Crosby, Sara. "Good Tobacco" |
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McGrath, David. "The Swellest Thing" |
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Sherman, Nancy. "Lost Tribes" |
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Lisle, Laurie. "Heart" |
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Church, Steven. "Next Stop, Meteor Crater" |
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Eisele, Kimi. "Border Maps" |
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Weld, Elizabeth. "Youth and Funeral" |
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Miller, Ben. "Treasure" |
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Comer, Diane. "Family Geometry" |
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Weber, Elizabeth. "Intersection" |
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Dickerson, Sarah. "In the Shape of a Goddess" |
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Carson, Kristen. "What Grows Out There" |
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Volume 5, Number 2 Fall 2003 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Submission Cover Letters |
4030 | 27-28 | ||
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Submission Cover Letters |
4031 | 1 | ||
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Log Book |
4031 | 2 | ||
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Outside Reader Comments |
4031 | 3 | ||
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Editorial Recommendations |
4031 | 4 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters with Reader Comments Attached |
4031 | 5 | ||
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One Special Rejection Letter with Revision Suggestion |
4031 | 6 | ||
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Review of Richard Rodriguez's Brown by Robert Root (hard copy and disk) |
4031 | 7 | ||
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Page proofs and Drafts of Photo Essay by Roger B. Smith |
4031 | 8 | ||
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Two Drafts of Table of Contents |
4031 | 9 | ||
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Cover Letters from Accepted Authors re. Final Manuscripts, Contact and Biographical information |
4031 | 9 | ||
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Form Letter re. Production Schedule and Related e-mail to Editors |
4031 | 9 | ||
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Labels and Handwritten Notes |
4031 | 9 | ||
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Table of Contents and Corrected Page Proofs by Authors |
4031 | 10 | ||
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Accepted manuscripts (some with SASE's, reader comments, and/or cover letters attached) |
4031 | 11 | ||
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Scott, Martin. "Five Fingers of Death: On Revenge and the Martial Arts" |
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Meltzer, Daniel. "Lost" |
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Monaghan, Patricia. "Physics and Grief" |
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Shavin, Dana Lise. "Two People Who Ordinarily Would Never Meet" |
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Purpura, Lia. "Spires" |
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Stewart, Amy. "Chicago Torch Songs" |
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Leslie, Naton. "There Are Green Ones and Yellow Ones" |
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Skoot, Floyd. "We're Here Now" |
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Moore, Dinty W. "If Mr. Clean Had Been My Father: An Essay on Family and Coincidence" |
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Brooks, Ben. "Bully at the Pulpit: One American's Cultural Exchange with Cuba" |
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Fennelly, Beth Ann. "Various Parts of the Elephant: on Metaphor" |
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Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Log Book |
4031 | 12 | ||
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Outside Reader Comments |
4031 | 13 | ||
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Editorial Recommendations |
4031 | 14 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters with Reader Comments Attached |
4031 | 15 | ||
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Janet Eidus' Manuscript "No-Goodnicks," Special Rejection Letter, Reader Reports, and Internal Correspondence re. Reader Reports |
4031 | 16 | ||
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Table of Contents |
4031 | 17 | ||
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Author Contact List |
4031 | 17 | ||
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Book Review Correspondence |
4031 | 17 | ||
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Draft of Photo Essay by Kim Aikens and Correspondence re. Revisions |
4031 | 17 | ||
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Cover Letters from Accepted Authors re. Final Manuscripts, Contact and Biographical Information |
4031 | 18 | ||
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Signed contract from Ellen Prewitt and a Blank contract |
4031 | 18 | ||
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Page Proof Memo/Off Print Order Form from Ellen Morris Prewitt |
4031 | 18 | ||
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Two Manuscripts: "Literary Balls: An Essay on Writing Essays" by Michael O'Rourke; "Comments on the Form: Writing an Investigative Memoir" by Christopher Scanlan |
4031 | 19 | ||
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Page Proof Corrections from Authors |
4031 | 20 | ||
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Manuscript and disc of Interview with Gerald Stern, by Sue William Silverman; two cover letters from Silverman re. interview and book review; e-mail from Silverman re. Table of Contents |
4031 | 21 | ||
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Packet of SASE's and Reader Comments (for accepted manuscripts), with Copy of Production Schedule Form Letter Attached |
4031 | 37 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4031 | 22 | ||
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Harvey, Steven. "Coming to Terms" |
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Tomas, Pappi. "The Office" |
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Gavin, Gaynell. "In Brief: An American Tale" |
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Griffin, Gail. "The Falling" |
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Hammond, Jeffrey. "A Room of My Own" |
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Miller, Alyce. "Footnote on Metaphor" |
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Kimber, Robert. "Buying a New Fridge at Sixty-Five" |
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Allison, Sue. "Not the Great Books" |
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Prewitt, Ellen Morris. "If It's Just One More Thing, Why Does it Feel Like the Last?" |
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Lounsberry, Barbara. "Disappearing Country" |
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Abildskov, Marilyn. "Split" |
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Volume 6, Number 2 Fall 2004 |
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Cover proof |
4031 | 23 | ||
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Log Book |
4031 | 23 | ||
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Submission Cover Letters |
4031 | 24-26 | ||
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Submission Cover Letters with Manuscripts |
4031 | 27-28 | ||
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Outside Reader Comments |
4031 | 29 | ||
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Editorial Recommendations |
4031 | 30 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters with Reader Comments Attached |
4031 | 31 | ||
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Papers re. "Roundtable" Feature: 1) Checklist; 2) Drafts and e-mail re. Who Am I in this Story? Behind the Lines of "What's a Rally to Do?" by Mimi Schwartz; 3) Ms.by Mike Steinberg (untitled); 4) Roundtable by Sue William Silverman; 5) Multiple Personalities in Memoir by Rebecca McClanahan; 6) Timeline, Correspondence and Draft of "Roundtable" feature |
4031 | 32 | ||
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Correspondence re. Proofs |
4031 | 33 | ||
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Three drafts of the Table of Contents |
4031 | 33 | ||
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Author Correspondence re. Contact/Biographical Information |
4031 | 33 | ||
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Author Contact List |
4031 | 33 | ||
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Corrected Proofs from Authors |
4031 | 33 | ||
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Copyediting Checklist, Notes, and Correspondence |
4031 | 34 | ||
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Handwritten Notes on "Editors' Note" and Wendy Bishop Profile |
4031 | 34 | ||
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Correspondence re. Table of Contents |
4031 | 34 | ||
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Correspondence re. Wendy Bishop (deceased) and Draft of Tribute to Her |
4031 | 34 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4031 | 35-36 | ||
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Sinor, Jennifer. "The Marlin" |
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Raz, Hilda. "Stock" |
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Pelizzon, V. Penelope. "Memoire on the Heliographe" |
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Scheick, William J. "Floral Images from Childhood" |
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Merrill, Cheryl. "A Creature of Many Parts" |
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Galosy, Richard. "Renewal" (photo essay) |
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Sjoholm, Barbara. "The Natural History of My Begonia" |
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Miller, Brenda. "The Case Against Metaphor: An Apologia" |
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Drummond, Laurie Lynn. "See For Yourself" |
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Larsen, Jeanne. "Hell and Heaven at Tateyama" |
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Pollack, Eileen. "The Jewish Shah" |
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Tables of Contents for Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2 |
4032 | 1 | ||
Volume 7, Number 1 Spring 2005 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Page Proof Corrections and Relating Correspondence |
4032 | 2 | ||
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Correspondence with Sue Silverman and Marc Sheehan |
4032 | 3 | ||
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Revisions and Relating Correspondence |
4032 | 4 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters |
4032 | 5 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts with Cover Letter |
4032 | 6-7 | ||
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Table of Contents |
4032 | 8 | ||
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Log Book |
4032 | 9 | ||
Volume 7, Number 2 Fall 2005 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Original Manuscripts with Cover Letters |
4032 | 10 | ||
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Table of Contents |
4032 | 11 | ||
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Log Book |
4032 | 12 | ||
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Correspondence Regarding Shifted Issue |
4032 | 13 | ||
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Final Page Proof Corrections and Correspondence |
4032 | 14 | ||
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Correspondence with Sue Silverman and March Sheehan |
4032 | 15 | ||
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Correspondence with Outside Readers |
4032 | 16 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters |
4032 | 17 | ||
| Box | Folder | |||
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Fourth Genre Dark Archive - CD-R 2001-2005 |
4032 | 18 | ||
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Editors' Prize Contest 2005 |
4032 | 19 | ||
Volume 8, Number 1 Spring 2006 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Table of Contents |
4032 | 20 | ||
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Original Manuscripts with Cover Letters |
4032 | 21-22 | ||
Volume 8, Number 2 Fall 2006 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Table of Contents |
4032 | 23 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts |
4032 | 24-25 | ||
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Associate Editor Reports |
4032 | 26 | ||
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Outside Readers |
4032 | 27 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters |
4032 | 28 | ||
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Log Book |
4032 | 29 | ||
| Box | Folder | |||
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Second Annual Editors' Prize 2006 |
4032 | 30-31 | ||
Volume 9, Number 1 Spring 2007 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Table of Contents and Correspondence Regarding Proofs |
4032 | 32 | ||
Volume 9, Number 2 and Volume 10, Number 1 Fall 2007, Spring 2008 |
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| Box | Folder | |||
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Table of Contents and Correspondence (9.1) |
4032 | 33 | ||
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Outside Readers (Vol. 9, no. 2 & Vol. 10, no. 1) |
4032 | 34 | ||
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Special Rejection Letters (Vol. 9, no. 2 & Vol. 10, no. 1) |
4033 | 1 | ||
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Accepted Manuscripts for Volume 9, Number 2 |
4033 | 2-3 | ||
| Box | Folder | |||
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Third Annual Editors' Prize 2007 |
4033 | 4-5 | ||
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1949 |
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1950 |
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1954 |
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1955 |
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1956 |
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1957 |
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1957 |
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1958 |
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1961 |
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1962 |
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1963 |
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1967 |
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