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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018
quote of the day
"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."
Neil Young
fact of the day
Neil Young's birth name was Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young.
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KU alumna working on third novel
LITERATURE
Author Karen Stolz credits professor and speakers for inspiring her writing
Alumna Karen Stolz, here with her son, Danny Spence, has published two novels and is working on a work. Stolz said she was inspired to write during her time at the University.
BY JON KALEUGHER
editor@kansan.com
When Karen Stolz was in third grade, she decided she wanted to be a writer.
"The teacher would read us stories and I thought, "That's what I want to do," said Stolz, a 1980 graduate and author.
She began writing in junior high and became more serious in high school and college.
"I always enjoyed reading Flannery O'Connor and J.D Salinger when I was coming up, and it definitely helped me with my writing," she said.
After a brief stint at Emporia State University, she transferred to the University of Kansas during her sophomore year. That was when her publishing career began, "Rendezvous," an on-campus literary magazine, published one of her stories.
"I was always an English major, but it wasn't until I decided I wanted to go to graduate school that I became more serious about writing," she said.
Stolz said retired professor Alan Lichter, whose specialty was poetry
but who also taught fiction, helped her become serious about writing. Several guest speakers, including Alice Walker and Gail Godwin, also helped confirm her interest in writing.
After graduating in 1980, she took her writing north to the Masters of Fine Arts program and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
"I wanted to stay in the Midwest," she said, "and it also didn't hurt that it was one of the best MFA programs in the nation."
From there she went on to teach in Austin, Texas, before settling at Pittsburg State University in 2005, where she is now an assistant professor of creative writing.
"Hearing good writers read inspired me," she said.
In 2000 she had her first book published. It was a collection of consecutive short stories called "World of Pies." The novel, which explores a Texas family's life, was reviewed in Publishers' Weekly, featured in People magazine and published in six countries.
"During that period there was a lot written about dysfunctional families, and people responded to
the book," she said. "It was good to know that a happy family could be out there."
Her second novel was "Fanny and Sue," which intertwined the lives of identical twins into a single story set during the Great Depression in St. Louis, Stolz's birthplace.
"I got to interview my dad, who grew up there, for background for the story," Stolz said. "It's basically homage to my dad and mom's childhood and the period they grew up in."
She is now working on her third
novel, tentatively titled "Arvetta," which she is coauthoring with Herman Wright.
"It's a novel based on real events, about Herman's grandmother's life in rural black East Texas," she said.
The book is still being finetuned and has no timetable for publication.
Keeping the Jayhawk tradition alive is her son, Danny Spence, a Pittsburg junior majoring in film. Spence is production director and hip-hop director for KJHK. He is also a hip-hop performer.
Edited by Scott R. Toland
America's First Dog or Nair's new mascot?
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A four-month old puppy called "Machu Pichu" is seen in Lima on Tuesday. The owners of the animal, a Peruvian Hairless Dog, have offered it to President-elect Barack Obama. Obama has promised his daughter a new pet for the White House, but one of them is allergic to most breeds. The owners of the Peruvian Hairless Dog said it was perfect for kids who were sensitive to dogs.
ODD NEWS
N.C. to auction jewelry confiscated in drug busts
RALEIGH, N.C. — If you're in the market for a diamond-
The department hopes to
studded gold gorilla pendant, the North Carolina Department of Revenue may have just what youre looking for — thanks to busted drug dealers.
auction hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry — including a $38,000 watch and a $23,000 gold pendant depicting Jesus — confiscated during drug busts over the past year by the department's unauthorized substances division.
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with a face of sparkling yellow, pink and blue stones forming the continents on a world map.
A silver-colored men's Breitling 1884 chronometre watch is listed at $38,000.
Necklaces, rings and bracelets will be available alongside more unique items, such as a $29,500 Jacob & Co. five time zone watch
The diamond gorilla has a stone missing, but it's still appraised at $21,600.
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The play "Sweeney Todd" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
The lecture "Ordinary Women, Ordinary Evil: The SS Aufseherinnen of the Nazi Camp System" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
The film "Reves de Poussiere (Dreams of Dust)," a part of the Tournees French Film Festival, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
University Support Staff Senate will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
"A Journey into Canada's Great Bear Rainforest" will begin at 7 p.m. in 106 Spooner Hall.
The seminar "Behind the Scenes at Kansas Public Radio/Audio-Reader" will begin at noon in Broadcasting Hall.
"Federalist Society:'Resolved'-1973 War Powers Resolution Discussion" will begin at 4 p.m. in 127 Green Hall.
The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato. You can learn more at www.potato2008.org.
The lecture "The Spiritual Origin of the Drama: Baldwin, Osiris, Dionysus, Eshu and the Bible" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
Danny Manning Book Signing will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
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The lecture University Forum 90 Years Later: What's New at the National World War I Museum" will begin at noon in the ECM Center.
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