Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

"In a series of reflective essays, observations, and narratives, this work examines connections between the self, nature, and one's place in the universe. Topics explored within include surfing, traveling, flight, flora, and extinction. Much of the work is lyrical and/or conversational in nature to allow for natural digressions into other disciplines (i.e. biology, music, history)." -- Abstract

A hungover man wakes up. This story narrates his interior dialogue as he moves throughout his apartment over the course of the hours that range from his waking up to his dinner. He makes himself two meals, discusses God, politics, stray items left about h

"This is a road-novel that is also a meditation on cinematic and literary road-trip stories themselves. In following protagonist and film-critic Stan Avelia's journey from his small Western Massachusetts town to San Francisco in search of a long-lost underground film, the novel explores the value of art (to the community and to the self), the effects of economic deregulation, the power of ideology, and what it means to make a place one's home." --Abstract.

"Objects in the Mirror is a testament to imagination and the potential it has to decode and influence our reality. Each poem involves a retreat to our mental laboratories and libraries, in order to understand the world in a better way, and grow closer to the forces that compel us." --Abstract.

"Forms in this collection include longer narrative poems, shorter more image driven poems, and persona poems. Many of the poems explore issues of domesticity and motherhood, while others are in conversation with a variety of writers or artists including Jack Gilbert, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Mary Rowlandson, and Mary Cassatt." --Abstract.

"This thesis is a collection of essays written in a time the author chose to live in distinct cultures, exploring and contemplating her languages, desires, regrets and the things she cannot forsake. Traveling between the United States and China in the time of Covid19, the author looks into the weight of her choices and longings, where she came from, and where she is going." -- Abstract

Collection of nine short stories in which the theme of absence both unifies and distinguishes the stories, influencing the narratives in varying degrees: parents, communication, adulthood, requited love, and objects with sentimental value are examples of absences in effect. --Abstract.

First six chapters of a novel about Kikai Sato, a Japanese-American bookmaker struggling to make it in New York. She is asked by Akiyo, her yakuza-boss brother, to return to Kyoto to do him one last favor: Take out their father's eyes and return them to him for a cash reward.--Abstract.

"This collection of stories explores our fraught relationship with the past, and the ways in which we try to reconcile our memories--those elusive, shimmery ghosts--with the often dim, unsatisfactory present. In their examination of the intricate threads which bind us to our bygone days, these stories are at once an elegy for times and selves lost, and a celebration of that which urges us onward." --Abstract.

Packing with Proust is a travel memoir about my pilgrimage to literary sites around the world. I wander through the houses and graveyards of dead authors and fictional characters, searching in abandoned landscapes for a story I can call my own. I baptize

Panzerosa' offers stories that reach for truth in the life of the author, who is the youngest son of three brothers and descendant of Carl and Cecilia Strandwitz. Over the span of this memoir, brotherhood becomes displaced by the partnerships of marriage,