Long Time Gone
Hannah Martian ’20, ’24 MA Sport Management
Crooked Lane Books: 2024
Wonderland, Wyoming, buried the truth about Jessica Coldwater’s murder 40 years ago, but private investigator Quinn Cuthridge returns to her small hometown to dig in and find the murderer. Hannah Martian’s debut book explores past and present, attraction and secrets. They crafted a story in which Quinn must face her own history in the backcountry, while falling for a ranch hand, in this queer mystery novel.
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101 Old Re-Fry’d Cougar Tales
Richard “Dick” Fry
2023
Legendary WSU sports information director and Coug storyteller Dick Fry compiled his entertaining tales of Washington State athletes from the last century and more. Fry, now 101, dove deep into the lore and characters of Cougar sports, then shared those stories in his inimitable, humorous style. Read about the first homecoming football game, poet/basketballer Jim McKean, and many more players and events in Fry’s collection.
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The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894
Louis Kirk McAuley
Edinburgh University Press: 2024
Drawing extensively from archival materials such as the photo albums of Robert Louis Stevenson’s cousin, Sir Graham Balfour, Louis Kirk McAuley explores the global transfer of plants and animals in this academic look at the ways “unruly natures” decenter humans in literature. He teaches in the WSU English department.
A Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of the Physical-Virtual Continuum
Edited by Vahid Vahdat, James F. Kerestes, and Ebrahim Poustinchi
Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press: 2024
This collection, coedited by Vahid Vahdat, an assistant professor of architecture and interior design at WSU’s School of Design and Construction, explores the implications of “purpleness” for architecture and design. The guiding idea is that the material and immaterial, and mundane and exotic, should be rethought as belonging to a continuum rather than being separated by an uncrossable chasm. The book won the art category in this year’s Next Generation Indie Book Awards.