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“From Boys to Men offers an accessible, engaging, richly detailed rhetorical history
that will be of use to any student or teacher of rhetoric interested in US history,
national identity, or gender construction.  Its cogent exploration of how organizations
for boys promoted idealized, racialized, and class-based masculine development amidst
the pressures of national development brings essential depth to ongoing scholarly
conversations in rhetorical studies.”  —Christa J. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Political philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek has written a compelling and
commendatory review of the new book. See: LA Review of Books.

“What I discovered was how colonialism really affected us —
us doubting our identity. This is something that everybody
wants to know: What is my identity? Everyone tries to work
that out through their lives. When your identity is so defined
by the other, the struggle is between how the other has framed
your identity and what you know is not your identity. So what is it?”
- Elizabeth Nunez

Praise for Cat Got Your Tongue?

"It is clear that McPherron and Randolph truly wish to impart to their readers all of their 
expertise and passion for idioms in order to improve how English language learners from 
around the world acquire idioms.  Cat Got Your Toungue? serves as a complete guide for 
teaching idioms, and is easy to reade and peruse.  With excellent definitions, reviews, 
activities, materials, and references, this book is all a teacher needs to become well-prepared 
to effectively teach idioms."
-Judith C. Bridges, University of South Florida

Praise for naked romance and then some:

"Davida Singer is a love gangster, a trickster. Writing in her honey drawl for all she’s worth. 
Writing with a passion so indomitable it will keep you hungering for one more poem. 
Like Lorca, she dreams that we are all love songs waiting to be read aloud. 
This book is naked romance, and then some."
- Frank London, Grammy Award-winning trumpeter / composer 
(The Klezmatics, Klezmer Brass Allstars)

"Intense and savagely beautiful, Latifah Salom’s The Cake House grabs you,
then grabs you harder.  The magic of this suburban-gothic literary thriller
is the scale on which it’s done—small and absolutely terrifying.
An accomplished, mesmerizing debut." - Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander 

“Reading The Cake House, I vividly saw the whole edifice rising up
before me, latticework covering a multitude of sins. A wonderful,
chewy, complicated book that doesn't flinch from danger or pain
but rejects despair.” - Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling Temeraire series

“When I came back from war, one of the things that
happened was that people would ask me what it was
like, and how the war is going. And I generally felt
empowered to answer them. After all, I'd been there.
And yet, each person has such a small piece of the war,
and that piece will be powerfully shaped not only by
when they were there and where in Iraq they were,
but also by what job they did. So rather than writing
a unified novel about the experience of war, I wanted
twelve different voices—voices that would approach
similar themes but from very different perspectives.”
- Phil Klay in an Interview with writer/editor Rebecca Rubenstein