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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 2012
Page
1
University selected Eula Biss Notes From No Man's Land as its inaugural common book. Biss teaches at Northwestern in Evanston and will visit KU in October to discuss writing and the college.
Eula Biss, 35, living in Rogers Park Illinois with husband John Bresland and son Juneau, discusses continuing to reside in the same apartment explored in Notes From No Man's Land. She holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop, and wrote The Balloonists, a 2002 prose poem series.
The 2009 essay collection by Eula Biss covers race identity fear and kinship. KU’s Bold Aspirations plan funds a shared read for social and intellectual ties with 125 nominations, 4 500 copies to incoming students, and an author visit by Eula Biss on October 4 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Interim director Mike Wildgen said the nonprofit, now staffing up after leadership losses, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on October 1. The agency with six full time and 18 part time employees has a $964000 budget and serves about 3500 seniors with meals, transportation and support to remain independent at home.
Incoming Jayhawks attend Traditions Night to learn campus customs and start the fall semester. The event helps new students connect with KU traditions and campus life as orientation begins. Community questions directed to LJWorld via Facebook and Twitter.
History buffs lead Quantrill's Raid tour of downtown as community memories rise around the 1863 Lawrence massacre. The piece recalls Ralph Dix attempting to reason with William Quantrill's raiders at what is now the library parking lot and the Oak Hill Cemetery monument marking bloodiest day.
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