Happy to report that the latest issue of WAL, 49.1, spring 2014, is now up on Project Muse. (Not sure why they don't have 48.4 up yet.) It's a special issue on "Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics" guest edited by Susan Bernardin. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/western_american_literature/toc/wal.49.1.html If it hasn't already, it should be appearing in your mailbox shortly. -Tom Table of Contents: Introduction Indigenous Wests: Literary and Visual Aesthetics SUSAN BERNARDIN (Guest Editor) The Significance of the Frontier in Comanche Poetry SCOTT ANDREWS The End (of the Trail) is the Beginning: Stephen Graham Jones’s *The Bird is Gone* JOHN GAMBER “This Is Our Playground”: Skateboarding, DIY Aesthetics, and Apache Sovereignty in Dustinn Craig’s *4wheelwarpony* JOANNA HEARNE “Just by doing it, we made it appear”: Dustinn Craig on *We Shall Remain:* *Geronimo*, *4wheelwarpony*, and the *Apache Scouts* Project Interview JOANNA HEARNE and DUSTINN CRAIG It’s a Good Day to Bike: Indigenous Futures in Ramona Emerson’s *Opal *SUSAN BERNARDIN --- Tom Lynch Associate Professor Chair, Undergraduate Studies Editor, *Western American Literature* Department of English 202 Andrews Hall P.O. Box 880333 University of Nebraska, Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 <[log in to unmask]> <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> * Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?* - H. D. Thoreau *New Books:* *The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place <http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/the_bioregional_imagination>* *Artifacts & Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley <http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Artifacts-and-Illuminations,674965.aspx>* Homepage <http://english.unl.edu/tlynch2/> Faculty Page <http://english.unl.edu/faculty/profs/tlynch.html>