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A memoir about disability and siblinghood that is candid and comical

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Introducing Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tale of Two Sisters “As sister to Chris, a sassy, gender-fluid, rule-bending extrovert with Down syndrome, Dianne Bilyak—a thoughtful, shy, occasional rebel drawn to the page and the stage—spent her life experiencing a vast array of emotions, from loyalty and admiration to feeling lost in the shadows…

Celebrating Barbara Guest’s 100th Birthday!

Wesleyan University Press is virtually celebrating what would have been Barbara Guest’s 100th birthday! Guest’s monumental career as a writer spanned over 60 years, during which she was deeply intertwined with poets of the New York School including Frank O’Hara and later on, with the Language poets. Over her life, she wrote extensively for Art…