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A collection of essays full of startling directness, fearlessness, and surprise.   Filled with profound reflections and snapshots from the past, Karen Chase‿s History is Embarrassing weaves together threads from one single life‿a girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter. Like Chase, the characters who populate these essays are outsiders‿undercover cops, a gay couple in 1500s India, bear poachers, psychiatric p...

Bear, Chase's second collection of poetry, grew from her research for a non-fiction book about an illegal bear poaching operation. In the poems, the author addresses a bear, exploring the curious line between humans and other mammals, while other poems are written from the point of view of a prisoner, jailed for unknown crimes. Aside from these, there are many autobiographical and notional poems, subjects ranging from Chase's girlhood polio to...

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¿ An Italian food-themed short story sure to delight fans of Delicious and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and the movies Big Night and Chocolat.Mary Angela-an aging, reclusive, Italian widow-is drawn into baking bread for a high-end corner restaurant in her gentrifying neighborhood. It's a recipe for disaster to her husband who haunts her kitchen.At a time when we are social distancing, and too often confined to our own kitchens (baking too m...

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This book studies the social and literary conditions which helped construct the experience of old age in the Victorian period. Taking exemplary texts and situating them within relevant cultural episodes, the book recreates the drama of the aged struggling for rights and recognition in a world that would have preferred to grant invisibility.

Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century fills a long overdue need for a re-evaluation of this classic text. In this collection of new essays prominent scholars address the timely questions which Middlemarch poses today, and they prepare the ground for the ongoing reconsideration of a great novel.

A Paris travelogue and collection of essays that "must be on everyone's list before going to Paris along with Hemingway's A Movable Feast." - Gregory RandallIf Karen A. Chase absolutely had to turn forty, she decided she could do it gracefully in Paris… for nearly forty days. What began as a blog to communicate with friends and family, became a travel journal filled with over a months' worth of humorous and insightful glimpses into her Paris a...

With cries of war spreading across the colonies and pressure mounting to join the Revolution, an intrepid young Post Rider, Nathaniel Marten, is reluctant to raise a rifle for the cause until in a chance encounter with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel is asked to secure the remaining signatures by carrying the sole copy of the Declaration to the congressmen unable to attend the formal signing.

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Middlemarch is the prime example of George Eliot's dictum that "interpretations are illimitable, " and in this collection of new essays Middlemarch is re-examined as an open text responsive to gaps and fissures, and as resistant to authority as it is to other fixed notions of identity, idealism, and gender. What does the novel omit, and how do the omissions shape what is there? How shall we understand the materiality of the text? What problems...

For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and athletic young man who had given up speaking and had withdrawn from social interaction. Meeting on the locked ward every week for two years, Chase and Ben passed a pad of paper back and forth, taking turns writing one...

A unique chronicle of childhood polio told with a remarkable blend of provocative reflection, humor, and pluck.

How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors ¿ Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot ¿ depict the mind and organise emotion, Chase approaches their works as expressive structures, and analyses their struggle to accommodate rival imperatives in depicting p...

Presents and expands upon Roosevelt's daily nautical log as he was trying to regain the use of his polio-damaged legs.

A collection of power and humor in earthy eroticism, invoking both the fever and hope in wakeful dreams. A bold work of the elegiac past and the visceral present converging in provocative imagery. There is often an undercurrent of longing in Chase's poems--the longing of hunger, of sex, of unfinished business with the dead. Central to the collection is the title poem, a spiraling nightmare that explores the messy and terrifying commingling of ...

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