Travels in a Tree House
Essays on Life and Other Joys

John S. Workman

Salt-of-the-earth wisdom and humanity along with a sense of humor about life's worries and contradictions. (more …)

"[Travels in a Treehouse] captures the relationship between religion and everyday life; it is sprinkled with joy and humor; it is appealing to men and women in all walks of life."

—Andrew J. McDonald
Bishop Emeritus Diocese of Little Rock

2001, 192 pages
$16.95 paper (s), 1-55728-705-8

"Too Good a Town"
William Allen White, Community, and the
Emerging Rhetoric of Middle America

Edward Gale Agran

Investigating William Allen White's life and his fifty-year body of jounalism and writings, Agran explores the dynamic thought of one of America's best-read and most-respected social commentators. Agran shows clearly how White honed his style and transformed the myth of conquering the western frontier into what became the twentieth century idea of community.

1998, 256 pages
$34.95 cloth (s), 978-1-55728-520-1 | 1-55728-520-9
$16.95 paper (s), 978-1-55728-521-8 | 1-55728-521-7

The Shortstop's Son

Philip Martin

"Philip Martin makes quick but deep incisions into the body cultural and politic of our nation. He is one of a handful of tough surgeons trying to resurrect this corpus in the middle-age days of our democracy. And he's funny."

—Andrei Codrescu
National Public Radio

1997, 176 pages
$29.95 cloth (s), 978-1-55728-483-9 | 1-55728-483-0
$16.00 paper (s), 978-1-55728-484-6 | 1-55728-484-9

The Hero's Apprentice

Essays by Laurence Gonzales

In this strong new collection of essays by Laurence Gonzales we encounter people in some of the world's most challenging professions and situations—firefighters, wirewalkers, wilderness explorers, brain surgeons, cancer patients.

1994, 224 pages
$24.95 cloth, 1-55728-360-5

The Higher Illiteracy
Essays on Bureaucracy, Propaganda, and Self-delusion

Gene Lyons

"Writing, teaching, the rationality of living in a small American city [Little Rock]—these are among the elements of Gene Lyons' life and the topics of his stimulating essays."

—Washington Post Book World

1988, 278 pages
$35.00 cloth, 1-55728-003-7
$18.00 paper, 1-55728-004-5

The Still Point

Laurence Gonzales

". . . the twelve essays . . . fairly sing with a voice all their own. It's a strong deep timbre that carries whatever tune it sings. . . ."

—Chicago Sun-Times

$20.00 paper, 1-55728-081-9

Writers in the Schools
A Guide to Teaching Creative Writing in the Classroom

Susan Perabo

For nearly three decades writers from the University of Arkansas's Programs in Creative Writing have traveled to Arkansas's public and private schools to enrich classrooms by contributing a unique dose of teaching methods. The workshops and sessions these writers teach open avenues for student creativity and sharpen students' language skills across the state. Writers in the Schools combines and condenses these proven techniques. Organized in an approach gauged to student abilities, the chapters proceed from a beginning level through intermediate and advanced levels and are useful to students in any grade.

80 pages
$19.95 paper (s)
978-1-55728-492-1 | 1-55728-492-X