Spillane Sunday: English Department Honors Crime Novelist Mickey Spillane
Spillane Sunday, a multimedia appreciation of the life and work of the late crime writer Mickey Spillane, will be held on Sunday, March 4, from 1:00-4:00 pm in Wall Auditorium. The event celebrates the cultural legacy of novelist Spillane, who lived in Murrells Inlet for more than 40 years. Spillane received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2005 from Coastal Carolina University.
Spillane scholar James L. Traylor, Ph.D, along with English professors Dr. Steve Hamelman and Dr. Dan Turner, will lead a roundtable discussion on Spillane’s classic crime novel, Kiss Me, Deadly. A public reception will follow the roundtable, and Spillane’s widow, Jane Spillane, will share stories of her life with the late author. There will also be a screening of the film, “Kiss Me, Deadly” (1955)directed by Robert Aldrich.
Kiss Me, Deadly (1952) is Spillane's sixth novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer, who in this installment battles the mafia while, as always, seducing the ladies. Traylor is the author of One Lonely Night: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984), and editor of Dime Detective Companion (2011) and Private Eyes (1998).
Spillane Sunday is part of the Decade Project, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University. The event is free and open to the public. For more information about Spillane Sunday, contact Kate Faber Oestreich, assistant professor of English, 843-349-6602, or koestrei@coastal.edu.
The Words to Say It Visiting Presents Alan Michael Parker
The English Department’s Words To Say It Visiting Writers Series will feature fiction writer Alan Michael Parker on Wednesday, March 7
at 4:30 pm in Wall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Alan Michael Parker is the author of two novels, Whale Man (WordFarm, 2011) and Cry Uncle, along with seven collections of poems, including Long Division (Tupelo Press, 2012). His stories and poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines, and in The Best American Poetry 2011 as well as the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. His prose has appeared in The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and Salon, among other journals. Since 1998, Parker has taught at Davidson College, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing; he is also a Core Faculty Member in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program.
New Issue of Waccamaw is Now Available Online
The new issue of Waccamaw is now available online. Be sure to check out the Waccamaw Interview Wheel, which includes interviews with Aimee Bender, Ben Percy, Will Allison, Lauren Groff, Kevin Wilson, Laura van den Berg, Kevin Moffett, Stephanie Powell Watts, Jeff Parker, and Adam Levin.
Graduate Student Publishes in Temporary Infinity Press
Matthew Fowler's personal essay, "Fault Lines," has been published in Temporary Infinity Press' November issue, released November 1. The essay explores a relationship's unanswered questions while the events of the 2011 Japanese quake and tsunami unfold. Fowler will be the first graduate of the M.A. in Writing program.
Assistant Professor Jennifer Boyle’s work will appear in the forthcoming issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. The special issue, “Becoming Media,” will focus “on a series of questions and explorations of the notion of ‘becoming-media’ within and in conversation with medieval and early modern contexts. Becoming-media refers in one sense to our dependence on the recursive circuitry and tangle of technologies, bodies, narratives, spaces, and mediating technics, across historical periods and across literary, scientific, philosophical, and theological modes of expression” (Palgrave Macmillan).
In 2010, Boyle published Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature (Ashgate). In Anamorphosis, Boyle “investigates how anamoprhic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, city and garden design, and as a theory and figure in literature, political theory and natural and experimental philosophy” (Ashgate).
Joe Oestreich's Memoir to be Published by Lyons Press in 2012
Assistant Professor Joe Oestreich has sold his memoir, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, to Lyons Press for publication in June 2012. The book documents the twenty-five years Oestreich has spent as the singer and bassist for the Columbus, Ohio-based band, Watershed. Oestreich describes Hitless Wonder as chronicling what happens when you chase a dream into middle age and, in doing so, risk losing the people you love. “Everyone knows the price of fame,” Oestreich says. “Hitless Wonder measures the price of obscurity.”
Jason Ockert Wins 2010 DZANC Short Story Collection Contest
February 16, 2011, Ann Arbor, MI—Dzanc Books is pleased to announce that Jason Ockert, Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, is the winner of our short story collection contest. Ockert’s manuscript, Neighbors of Nothing, was selected from nearly 300 submissions. This collection will be published in October 2013.
Alan Michael Parker is the author of two novels, Whale Man (WordFarm, 2011) and Cry Uncle, along with seven collections of poems, including Long Division (Tupelo Press, 2012). His stories and poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines, and in The Best American Poetry 2011 as well as the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. His prose has appeared in The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and Salon, among other journals. Since 1998, Parker has taught at Davidson College, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing; he is also a Core Faculty Member in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program.
Assistant Professor Jennifer Boyle’s work will appear in the forthcoming issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. The special issue, “Becoming Media,” will focus “on a series of questions and explorations of the notion of ‘becoming-media’ within and in conversation with medieval and early modern contexts. Becoming-media refers in one sense to our dependence on the recursive circuitry and tangle of technologies, bodies, narratives, spaces, and mediating technics, across historical periods and across literary, scientific, philosophical, and theological modes of expression” (Palgrave Macmillan).
Assistant Professor Joe Oestreich has sold his memoir, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, to Lyons Press for publication in June 2012. The book documents the twenty-five years Oestreich has spent as the singer and bassist for the Columbus, Ohio-based band, Watershed. Oestreich describes Hitless Wonder as chronicling what happens when you chase a dream into middle age and, in doing so, risk losing the people you love. “Everyone knows the price of fame,” Oestreich says. “Hitless Wonder measures the price of obscurity.”
