Edison prof publishes book

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PIQUA — Edison State Community College Assistant Professor of English Steve Marlowe has published a short story collection, “Digging Up the Bones.”

The stories follow three generations of an Appalachian family, spanning the 1960s to the present. The book’s description reads: “This is not a family–it’s a world; this is not a book–it’s an indictment; these words are not written–they’re howled.”

Fellow English department professors honored Marlowe with a reading and reception in the Edison State Art Gallery, April 26. As Marlowe read the chapter “The Done Thing,” classic films “I’m from Arkansas” and “Child Bride” played without sound to contrast visually those movies’ stereotypical portrayals of rural life with what Marlowe hopes are more sympathetic stories.

Marlowe is an attorney and writer who earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. “Digging Up Bones” was published by Roundabout Press.

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