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The characters--young and old, queer and straight, contemporary and historical--who inhabit Lynn C. Miller's stories often find themselves in defining moments and crisis situations. As they search through the archives of memory, truth, and experience, they seek to understand not only the past and present but themselves. Stretching the definition of "archive, " Miller builds interconnected webs that surprise, much like the seemingly random pape...

The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender."--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

Excerpt from Studies on North American Cercariae: With Eight PlatesWhile these estimates may in some cases be incomplete, nevertheless they serve to show one of the trends of modern investigation in the field of Helminthology. Now the number of described cercariae in this country has reached such proportions that it is not practical even to refer to all previous descriptions in this paper. Descriptions from the state of Illinois alone, includi...

Every person has a story to tell, but few beginners know how to uncover their story's narrative potential. And despite a growing interest among students and creative writers, few guides to the genre of memoirs and creative nonfiction highlight compelling storytelling strategies. Addressing this gap, authors Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook provide a compact, accessible guide to memoir writing that shows how an aspiring memoir writer can use...

After a minor car accident shatters her equilibrium, forty-three-year-old Amanda Ferguson wakes up to a memory of being terrorized by her older brother Adrian, whom she holds responsible for the death of her twin brother thirty years before. Set against the background of the theatre, The Day after Death explores how loss and family trauma affect our ability to connect, trust, and love.

In" Death of a Department Chair, " protagonist Miriam Held recounts the events of the previous fall when she was suspected of killing Isabel Vittorio, the chair of her department and her former lover. The controversial and contrary Vittorio was, at the time of her death, attempting to block the hire of a brilliant African American female professor. Already under siege for her attempts to increase diversity on campus, Miriam is forced to defend...

In this first novel of delicious wit and sharp observation, Austin playwright and professor Lynn C. Miller displays an unerring eye for the foibles of male-dominated departmental politics at fictional Austin University.When Fiona Hardison, a blocked Edith Wharton scholar, is passed over for promotion at the behest of her lover -- memorably slimy departmental chairman Sigmund Froelich -- she embarks on a journey toward self discovery with surpr...

Voices Made Flesh includes scripts and essays about performances of the lives of women such as Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Anus Nin, which consider issues that arise when a woman represents another woman's life. In the second section, seven performers tell their own stories, engaging issues of sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, loss of parent, disability, life and death. Voices highlights issues of representation, identity, and sta...