If anyone wants to send the troops some literary love this season, please check out Press 53's Books for Soldiers offer. Basically, buy a book for yourself and they send one to the troops.
I've met the guy that runs Press 53 when he was a guest speaker for one of my classes last spring. Interesting guy, but totally all-business. And if you've never heard of Press 53 (likely, unless you're in NC), it's a classy outfit in Winston-Salem. An independent literary press that focuses largely on collections of short stories. I'd recommend either the Home of the Brave or Surreal South anthologies, but I heard good things about Mary Akers' collection Women Up on Blocks and John Ehle's novels (reprints exclusive to Press 53).
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"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner