Welcome to Your Life
Writings for the Heart of Young America
David Haynes and Julie Landsman
Growing up today is more complicated than ever, in part to the the increasing diverseness and divisiveness of our culture. Welcome to Your Life
is a valuable anthology of fiction, memoir and poetry from various
cultural and ethnic perspectives discussing emotional issues that
confront young adults today. Featuring generous selections by writers
including David Sedaris, Charles Baxter, Diane Glancy, Lucille Clifton,
Li-Young Li, Ethan Canin, Sherman Alexie, and over twenty others, Welcome to Your Life speaks to the racially and psychologically complex realities of young lives today.
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David Haynes
Julie Landsman
Author's Bio:Julie Landsman is a teacher and writer who has worked in special
settings for students having difficulty in the classroom, as well as
teaching in regular high schools and junior high schools. Landsman has
traveled around the country talking to groups of teachers and
administrators interested in working in positive ways with students who
fail in traditional classrooms. The author of Basic Needs: A Year with Street Kids in a City School, Landsman is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.
David Haynes is the author of several novels, including All American Dream Dolls, Somebody Else's Mama, Live at Five, and most recently, The Full Matilda.
He teaches in the creative writing programs at Southern Methodist
University and Warren Wilson College. He has worked as a classroom
teacher and as a teacher-in-residence for the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards. His short stories have been
published in journals and anthologies, and two were read and recorded
for National Public Radio’s "Selected Shorts." Granta magazine selected him as one of America’s best young novelists in 1996.
Quotes:“This collection would definitely be interesting reading and
discussion, especially at the high school level. . . . This is a
challenging anthology.”—Kliatt
“Subtle, surprising, and
complicated perspectives on diversity questions. . . . One of the
strengths of this collection is that they are not preachy. They will
provide an inviting retreat from the prohibition-filled public service
messages and various books of virtues that bombard our young.”—Hungry Mind Review
“I loved the challenges inherent in many of these pieces. Nothing is
easy here, and for that I was grateful, because nothing is easy in real
life, and that's what we've got in these pages. I am impressed with the
range of writers assembled by David Haynes and Julie Landsman, both
veteran teachers.”—Susan Straight, from the foreword
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Binding: Paper
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 1998
Size: 6 x 9
Genre: Fiction Anthology/Poetry Anthology
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781571310171
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