DePauw professor's book featured 'Next Indiana Bookshelf'

Thursday, November 12, 2015
Greg Schwipps

A DePauw University professor's book and another by a fellow DPU graduate are among 13 selections picked for inclusion in the Next Indiana Bookshelf.

"What This River Keeps," by Greg Schwipps, associate professor and English Department chairman at DePauw and a 1995 graduate of the university, and "Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature and Land" by Susan Neville, professor of English at Butler University and a 1973 DePauw graduate, have been selected for inclusion.

Presented by the Indiana Center for the Book and Indiana Humanities, the new program allows libraries, schools and community organizations seeking to apply for a set of books as part of Indiana's bicentennial in 2016.

Reportedly 55 groups will receive the Bookshelf sets, which include a copy of each of the 13 titles designed to encourage thinking and discussion about the present and future of Indiana.

The Next Indiana Bookshelf includes fiction, nonfiction, essays and poetry, as well as titles appropriate for adults, young adults and children.

Each book has a strong connection to Indiana, either set in Indiana and/or written by a Hoosier author.

"These books are great discussion starters because they explore the dynamic forces shaping Hoosier communities today," according to Keira Amstutz, president and CEO of Indiana Humanities and a 1991 graduate of DePauw. "Returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, our growing ethnic and religious diversity, changes in how we use our land, and the complicated yet vital connections between our rural small towns and our rapidly growing suburban and urban areas -- these are all topics explored in the Bookshelf."

Schwipps was awarded the 2010 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award for Emerging Author for "What This River Keeps."

Neville won the inaugural Glick Award in 2009.

Schwipps is also co-author of an edition of "Fishing for Dummies."

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