Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. The editors contextualize their relationship and its time period with an introduction; annotations to the letters; and supplementary materials, including pieces by Stein and Riding that exemplify their singular perspectives on modernism as well as their personal poetics. The book provides unique insight into Stein’s and Riding’s writing processes as well as the larger literary world around them, making it a must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century poetry.

Murray Cohen planned to live out his "Golden Years," in his home on Siesta Key Sarasota, Florida. His dream was cut short when his wife of three weeks deliberately denied him medical assistance when he requested an ambulance thinking he was having a natural heart attack. Murray's bride waited until she believed he was dead before making her 'Academy Award' call to 911. Unfortunately for his killer, Murray was not finished fighting for his life. Murray Cohen's death was classified as natural by authorities in the State of Florida. His son became suspicious after many red flags and began his own investigation. He uncovered the ultimate evidence of murder left behind by his father. This story shines a light on how unequal, corrupt, and broken the Civil and Criminal Justice systems in America have become.

"Many lithic analyses in recent decades have focused on the influence of lithic production techniques and artifact stages in the discard form of stone tools. Assemblage composition has also been seen to reflect production and reduction activities at landscape scales. This approach has not yet been applied to the archaeological record of the North, however, despite its usefulness in analyzing small-scale sites dominated by lithic materials. Middle Holocene artifact assemblages in Alaska have frequently been characterized by the presence or absence of notched projectile points and microblade technology and assigned to one of two major categories with differences interpreted in terms of culture history. Sites with notched projectile points but no microblades are thought to belong to the Northern Archaic (based on these levels at the Onion Portage site (Anderson 1968a, b)), while sites with notched projectile points and microblades are considered "Tuktu-like" (after the Tuktu-Naiyuk site at Anaktuvuk Pass (Campbell 1959)), with little consideration of the site function or reduction activities. Here, a synthesis of over 200 middle Holocene sites from across Alaska and Yukon is used to show that there is more variability in age, distribution, artifact morphology, and assemblage composition than can be explained within existing culture-historical frameworks. Detailed cluster analyses, spatial analyses, and lithic analyses are also used to interpret the lithic production sequences represented by ten relevant near-surface archaeological sites from the central and western Brooks Range of northern Alaska. These data suggest that the archaeological record for the middle Holocene in northern Alaska is strongly conditioned by production and maintenance of a variety of tool types as well as the timing of the addition of raw materials into the toolkit"--Leaf xiv.