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Straight Man (New York: Random House, 1997) is a novel by American writer Richard Russo set at the fictional West Central Pennsylvania University in Railton, Pennsylvania.A campus novel, the book was inspired by Russo's experiences teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Southern Connecticut State University, and Penn State Altoona.
Russo was teaching in the English department at Southern Illinois University Carbondale when his first novel, Mohawk, was published, in 1986.Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, drawing on his life from his upbringing in upstate New York to his time teaching literature at Colby College, where he retired from in 1996 to pursue writing full-time.
The Straight Dope was a question-and-answer newspaper column written under the pseudonym Cecil Adams. Contributions were made by multiple authors, and it was illustrated (also pseudonymously) by Slug Signorino. [ 1 ]
The Sting (1973) - partly in Chicago; Academy Award for Best Picture (mob film) Stir of Echoes (1999) Stolen Summer (2001) Straight Talk (1992) Stranger than Fiction (2006) Strawberry Fields (1997) Streets of Fire (1984) Suicide Squad (2016) Surviving Christmas (2003) That Royle Girl (1925) Thief (1981) The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) Three ...
The book's cover, showing a young man in a suit and tie wearing stiletto heels, seems devoid of context compared to its content. The book conveys a depressed mood, contains two descriptions of a repressive environment and a non-existent homosexuality. 1920: The Dark Mother: Waldo Frank: US
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World is a self-help book by clinical psychologist Alan Downs, originally published on May 24, 2005, by Lifelong Books. [1] The book explores the challenges faced by gay men as they navigate societal expectations, discrimination, and internalized shame.
Bill Granger (June 1, 1941 – April 22, 2012) [2] was an American novelist from Chicago specializing in political thrillers. [3] He also wrote under the pseudonyms Joe Gash and Bill Griffith. He worked at the Chicago Tribune and other Illinois newspapers. [4] Some of his thrillers are Public Murders (1981), The November Man, [5] Schism [6] and ...
A man who is separated from his parents as a very young boy and raised in the wild by animals. Despite isolation from civilization and lack of grasp of language, the jungle boy has an innate sense of civilization and morality and is usually portrayed heroically. Tarzan; George of the Jungle; Mowgli (The Jungle Book) Bomba the Jungle Boy; Jungle ...