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A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genres

John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017745/Understanding-Marsha-Norman
Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'night, Mother and her acclaimed adaptations of The Secret Garden and The Color Purple for musical theater, Marsha Norman has produced an impress…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017715/Charleston-Belles-Abroad
An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum period

In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017711/Understanding-Jim-Grimsley
The first book-length study of an influential voice in contemporary queer American literature

Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017681/Giving-Voice-to-Traditional-Songs
A firsthand account of the singer's humble beginnings and the passion that made her the true voice of traditional Scottish songs

Acclaimed Scottish singer Jean Redpath (1937-2014) is be…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017661/The-Damned-Dont-Cry-They-Just-Disappear
A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South

In The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist H…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017569/An-Encyclopedia-of-South-Carolina-Jazz-and-Blues-Musicians
A comprehensive guide to the men and women who contributed to and defined these musical genres in South Carolina

In An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians, Benjamin…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017399/Understanding-David-Henry-Hwang
David Henry Hwang is best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won a 1988 Tony Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he has written the Obie Award-winners Golden Child and F…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017431/Understanding-Truman-Capote
A new direction for Capote studies that reconsiders the author's place in literary criticism, the canon, and the classroom

Truman Capote—along with his most famous works In Cold Blood a…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017789/Stage-Money-revised-and-updated-edition
For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments. In light of this shocking and harsh reality, how does the show go on? Tim Do…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700