The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

A Novel

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

A Novel

Get those guys reading! : fiction and series books that boys will love

The Black mask boys : masters in the hard-boiled school of detective fiction

Black mask.

Three gun Terry.

Bodies piled up.

Hell's kettle.

Sal the dude.

Rough justice.

Frost flies alone.

Gundown.

Blackmailers don't shoot.

Boys will be girls : the feminine ethic and British children's fiction, 1857-1917

Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats : pulp fiction and youth culture, 1950 to 1980

She loves me, she loves me not : romantic fiction

Stranger Than Fiction Private Lessons Flight of Fancy Keeping a Breast Prelude Just Like a Woman A Stone's Throw Show Off Bashert Girls Will Be Boys Mothers of Invention

The guy-friendly YA library : serving male teens

Libraries Unlimited professional guides for young adult librarians,

Libraries Unlimited professional guides for young adult librarians.

The Library Staff vs. Guys: Can't We Just Get Along? Understanding Teen Males Males as Readers: Their Reading Habits Reading and Boys: Topics of Interest Books for Boys-Genres, Titles, and Topics Engaging Teen Males in Library Programming and Teen Advisory Boards School Visits and Booktalks Actively and Passively Creating Library Services for Teen Males Essential Fiction Titles or Series for Teen Males

Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Parable of the sower: Stardust ; Dawn ; Daughter of dust ; Zeitgeist ; Spirit of the times ; Baby boom ; Dust ; Daughter of dust II ; Earthseed ; Star child ; Moon child ; Moon child II ; School child ; Daydreamer ; Red ink ; Pasadena ; Memory ; Fire ; Memory II ; Empathy ; Empathy II ; First word ; First story ; The Good Book ; Peter Pan room ; First book ; A universe of words ; A universe of books ; Imagination ; The pink notebook ; Imagination II ; Rogue planet. -- Parable of the talents: Space ; Race ; Space II ; Race II ; Red Scare (haikus) ; Red Planet (haikus) ; Fear of communism ; Devil girl from Mars ; Brown girl from earth ; The Red Planet ; Amazing stories ; Pulp fiction ; Hero (boy's books) ; Prize (girl's books) ; The writer ; Octavia's books ; Remington ; The writer II ; The future. Adulthood rites: Stories ; Science fiction ; Genius ; Stargazing ; Black future ; Kindred. --

Embracing, evaluating, and examining African American children's and young adult literature

A comparative analysis of The Brownies' book and contemporary African American children's literature written by Patricia C. McKissack / "The random brushing of birds" : representations of African American women in biographies / Following tradition : young adult literature as neo-slave narrative / Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and the roots of African American children's literature / A triumphant mulatto : racial construction in Mildred Taylor's The land / Historical fiction and cultural evocations in a community-based literary club / My boys and my books : engaging African American young men in emancipatory reading / Reader responses to African American children's literature : a sociolinguistic perspective / Reading our richly diverse world : conceptualizing a response development zone / African American children's literature in rural schools / Where life and children's literature meet : African American males in the elementary grades / Fences, physical and proverbial : pre-service teachers' engagement with The other side by Jacqueline Woodson

Adventures in the dream trade

The introduction / Mostly introductions -- Fan letter -- Shameful secrets of comics retailing : the lingerie connection -- But what has that to do with Bacchus? (Deadface) -- Breathtaker -- Bratpack (Rich Veitch) -- Astro City : confession (Kurt Busiek) -- 300 good reasons to resent Dave Sim (Cerebus) -- Tantrum (Jules Feiffer) -- The Dark Knight returns -- Starchild : crossroads (James A. Owen) -- The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and his incredible aetheric flyer (Alfred Bester) -- Concerning dreams and nightmares (H.P. Lovecraft) -- The Einstein intersection (Samuel Delany) -- The Swords of Lankhmar (Fritz Leiber) -- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) -- The King of Elfland's daughter (Lord Dunsany) -- Curiosities : Lud-in-the-mist (Hope Mirrlees) -- From the end of the twentieth century John M. Ford) -- Jonathan Carroll -- Roger Zelazny -- The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world (Harlan Ellison) -- Banging the drum for Harlan Ellison -- After they've brought on the dancing girls -- Poetry -- A Writer's prayer -- Neil's thank you pome -- Sonnet -- How to write Longfellow's "Hiawatha" -- The Old warlock's reverie : A pantoum -- Flash girls -- In re: Pansy Smith and Violet Jones -- Banshee -- Post mortem on our love -- Personal thing -- All purpose folk song -- A girl needs a knife -- American gods web log -- Fiction -- Hallowe'en -- December 7, 1995 -- Good boys deserve favours -- The Flints of Memory Lane -- Essay for Patti --

Michael Chabon's America : magical words, secret worlds, and sacred spaces

Contemporary American Literature

Contemporary American literature (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.)

Real maps of imaginary worlds; or, Michael Chabon, shadowtail / The dudes abide: examining Clinton-era identity in Wonder Boys and The Big Lebowski / Quentin Tarantino and the paradox of popular culture in Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue / Driving away: muscle cars, loss, and unrequited travels with Chabon / "Guess who I am now": on communication and childhood in Michael Chabon's "lost world" stories / Comix remix; or, The strange case of Mr. Chabon / "An American golem": the necessity of myth in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay / The chatter of an African gray parrot: The Final Solution as postmodern detective fiction / Genre for justice: The Final Solution and The Yiddish Policemen's Union as reflections of golden age detective fiction texts / Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road and the rejection of communal identity as heroic quest / Solving the Jewish case: metaphorical detection in Michael Chabon's The Final Solution and The Yiddish Policemen's Union / Not growing old but growing up: appropriate masculine identity in Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys / Queer masculinities in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Manhood for Amateurs / Write what you don't know: Wonder Boys and therapeutic creative writing / American prowess deconstructed: Michael Chabon and the merger of naturalism and fantasy / "Hope unfulfilled, not yet betrayed": Michael Chabon's nostalgia for the future