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Choosing to follow your own path
by, Alanna Rieser
June 21, 2016

Amidst the nervous titter of soon-to-be graduates, I could feel the excitement boiling under the clean, black robes at Lawrence University’s graduation ceremony. This year’s commencement speaker was Lan Samantha Chang. An Appleton WI native, Chang is the author of Hunger, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, and Inheritance. Hunger is a novella and collection of short stories, published in 1988. Chang’s prose follows the… [Read More]

Filed Under: commencement, graduation, Hunger, immigration, Inheritance, Iowa Writers Workshop, Lan Samantha Chang
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The Fallback Plan
by, Lindsay Debach
October 27, 2011

After the endless commencement ceremony, the cap toss, and the droning luncheons with family and friends, comes the panic-induced question asked by the college graduate: What next?  Debut author Leigh Stein accurately captures this bewilderment and sense of loss experienced by so many Generation Yer’s post-college in her first novel The Fallback Plan (Melville 2012) due out in January. Esther Kohler- Stein’s Juno-esque protagonist- graduated… [Read More]

Filed Under: college, Fallback Plan, graduation, identity, Leigh Stein, Melville House, mourning
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