Books like Alma Mater: A College Homecoming

I had intended to read this before leaving Kenyon (it was on my List Of Things To Do Before Leaving Ohio, after all, and I was pretty serious about crossing things off that list), but I didn't get a chance to pick it up until this morning. So I'm reading it as I'm returning to my own alma mater; and after several consecutive nights of walking the campus and visiting favorite places, sites of trauma, etc.; and almost exactly a year to the day that Jason and I drove back for alumni weekend and I realized that I could stand to be here without dropping to the ground and covering my head with my hands. I'll probably write more when I've finished reading this, but for now I'll mention that P.F. Kluge was one of the first faculty members I met when I started working at Kenyon in September 2006. During our first interaction, he introduced me to his typewriter. He's the only member of the Kenyon community ever to send me an email that began with the greeting "yo, melanie." At last year's Kenyon Review Writers' Harvest, I read a weird little story after he read one of his not-weird essays, and it was not at all stressful for me to take the stage following the campus celebrity and writer-in-residence, she said sarcastically.