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Review of Eastertown by Max Crawford (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

I don't know who Edith Kinney Gaylord is but the flyleaf to Max Crawford's novel Eastertown (U. of Oklahoma Press) gives her credit for her "generosity" in making the publication possible; if that means the book wouldn't have been published without her support, then we can all be grateful for it. This is, I think, Crawford's best, and it's a masterful work, coming as it does after a long career of having published around a dozen books, the early ones by large New York houses before he was struck by the well-known mid-list blues and was sent into exile before his talent had found full flower. Banned for not making the best-seller list. And given the current climate for literary publishing, it's all the more crucial that small and university presses continue to find the Edith Kenny Gaylords of the world willing to keep the flame alive.

Eastertown is a kind of old-fashioned novel set just before the Korean War in a small West Texas town, and the soaring, sometimes challenging omniscient narration allows for the fullest expression of its citizens' voices: the banker, the high school principal, the superintendent, a teacher, a talented young woman who went off to New York to be an actress and returned, a secretary, two high school girls, several boys (among other things, the novel is an astonishingly rich and vivid testament to the wonder and joy of being a boy in such a place and time), an attorney, a Sheriff, a newspaper publisher, an old veteran - to name only a few who get space in this capacious story to have their dreams and failures, their deepest yearnings and blackest fears, aired out by an authorial voice that is rich and quirky. The episodes that form the events of the story are the many public occasions of small-town life in an earlier America: school plays, religious and historical pageants, a trial, an election, a graduation ceremony, a collective gathering as a tragedy unfolds.

Chief among these characters is one unforgettable and ill-fated family - the Bavenders, the husband a quiet science teacher who worked on the "bomb" in Los Alamos during the war; his two sons, Dudley and Van, and his wife, daughter of the town's richest man and afflicted by addictions and a general unhappiness. While the novel traces the fate of each, it is broadly embellishing the lives of everyone around them by exploring their internal lives and by reaching into their histories.

This is a novel whose characters seep into your consciousness so deeply that you know once the story's over they're going to be part of your future.

This incredible compilation captures the essence of living in a proud town with humble beginnings. Beautiful photographs with detailed information draw the reader into the diverse history that makes the city so special. Highly recommend!

A most powerful, gripping, moving experience. El Indio Jesus gently takes the reader into dark places of the human condition, but sheds the light of reason, logic, cultural realities, and the kind of truth that embraces love at its core. Simply put, El Indio Jesus is a masterpiece.

Poet David Ray bares his soul to us in "The Endless Search." Readers will share his childhood, perhaps to recollect the pain of isolation, loss and disappointment each of us has had. Who would want to be a child again, to relive such burning moments for himself and his sister, as David Ray has described for us.

"The Endless Search" has a luminous side, a love of life. The author's search for love, given and received, circles in frustration with absent and flawed parents. David Ray does not blame them; he tells the truth with just enough distance for the reader to feel the peace after the turmoil, the forgiveness and love that infuse "The Endless Search."

The book provides illuminating scenes of poverty, family caretakers, orphanages, the Great Depression on Oklahoma farms and in small towns, a few prosperous relatives and the cousin who plays with a $50 toy electric train. There is the guardian trained in psychology who turns out to be both Swengali and a child abuser. A meeting with James Jones, author of "From Here to Eternity," leads to nightmare weeks in Louney Handy's Illinois writers colony. Her unpredicable praise-and-torment behavior is another example of a search that appears endless, that of the author seeking professional recognition and income.

A gifted story teller and craftsman, writing in clear, easy languaage, David Ray illuminates the prose of "The Endless Search" with his poems. They, too, are clear, understandable, vivid. His poetry resonates with enjoyablee tones and rhythms reminiscent of Whitman and Frost.

"The Endless Search" is a book to read and read again. It can serve as a guidebook to David Ray's other published poetry, a treasure of American literature.

The Yuchis, a Native American people originating in the southeastern United States, were forcibly relocated to the Indian Territory (along with their neighboring Native American tribes) in the 1830s. More than seventy years later, much of their traditional way of life still survived into the early 1900s and was observed and recorded by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) during the years 1904 to 1908. Speck documented numerous facets of Yuchi culture, including language, subsistence practices, decorative arts, domestic architecture, clothing, religious beliefs and rituals, healing practices, mythology, music, social and political organizations, warfare, games, and life transition rituals and customs from birth to burial. Ethnology Of The Yuchi Indians remains as a seminal introduction to the history and the culture of this Native American peoples and is a welcome and renewed addition to the library of Native American Studies.

I purchased this book for my military history class, and 3 years after I have graduated, it's still on my shelf for an interesting read. It's not your latest fiction thriller by any means, but it is well written and the subject matter is fascinating.

It is a scrapbook. Berlin dreams included many things, art, architecture, theater, sport. In the 1950's the city's dividedness became an occasion for more riches of artistic expression.

Brecht died in 1956. His daughter took over his company--the Ensemble-- and the right to produce his plays. The Berlin of the 1920's became frozen in time. After reunification the question arose as to whether the Berlin Ensemble should be preserved.

Friedrich Ebert was the first President of the Weimar Republic. German inflation, 1919-1923, was more demoralizing than the defeat of armies. Berlin is surrounded by beautiful lakes and woods but most of the inhabitants stayed within the city's confines which produced a multitude of employment opportunities and leisure pursuits. There was also the issue of a lack of low cost housing which some of the architects and planners sought to overcome.

Berlin night life defied description. There was political cabaret. There were night clubs one does not talk about. Criminal gangs were camouflaged as social clubs. Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, and Stefan George were active. Kathe Kollwitz and Georg Grosz were inevitably involved in showing the ugliness of life in the city. Other artists included Otto Dix, Ernst Barlach, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Otto Muller, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Bauhaus group influenced the avant garde.

The first public psychoanalytic institute was established in Berlin in 1921. The Berlin theater attracted the best talent. German film makers used Espressionism. Another genre of film was the mountain film. The music scene included Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arnold Schonberg, Paul Hindemith, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Arthur Schnabel, and Kurt Weill. The Wandervogel movement was apolitical. Notes and index are provided.

In 1845, with war with Mexico immanent, the US government authorized three expeditions to explore the boundary territory between the two countries: two of them were relatively famous (Kearny's survey along the Oregon Trail to South Pass and Fremont's expedition to California), but the third (Abert's exploration of the Canadian River in New Mexico, the Texas panhandle, and Oklahoma) was much less known; this interesting and well-annotated book is the official report of that expedition.

Leaving Bent's Fort near the end of August, with the legendary Thomas Fitzpatrick acting as guide, the command of about 30 men made their way through Raton Pass, then southeast to the Ute River, which they followed to where it enters the Canadian near present-day Logan. Turning east, the men marched through the Canadian River Valley across the panhandle of Texas, where Abert reiterated Stephen Long's opinion that this part of the West was a "great American desert." Fearing the Indians at first, Abert writes of pleasant, friendly encounters with the Kiowas and Comanches. After making an unintended detour when the North Fork of the Red was mistaken for the Wichita River, the party got back on course again and by the third week in October had reached their destination of Fort Gibson in eastern Oklahoma.

Abert was a clear, observant writer, and he describes much of the natural scenery encountered, including plant and animal life; he also writes intriguing accounts of the Indians and traders he met along the way. H. Bailey Carroll's excellent and detailed annotations made for the 1941 reprint (which this version copies) are a chief highlight of the book. The only things wanting in this book are good, detailed maps (only one rather cursory map is included). But as an early first-hand description of this part of the country, Abert's official report is magnificent.

I really believe that this is a great manual for use in the lab. Of course maybe it's because one of the graphic designers and illustrators is my son. And the picture used is one that he took. Congratulations on your first publication.