English Teacher Peter Cashwell to Publish Second Book
Woodberry Forest English teacher Peter Cashwell recently signed a contract with Paul Dry Books to publish Along Those Lines: The Boundaries that Create Our World. The nonfiction work, to come out in early 2014 as a trade paperback and possibly an e-book, is about the lines and boundaries people draw.
"There are lines between states, between species, between genres, between genders," says Peter, "We use them to divide movie audiences, digital recordings, and seasons, and depend on them to help us trace ancestries, follow religious doctrines, and set environmental policy."
Peter did much of the book's research and writing during his 2011 sabbatical at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, funded by Woodberry's Joyce Family Sabbatical Fund. And he interviewed a number of Woodberry Forest faculty members and experts in diverse fields including audio engineering, ornithology, early adolescent and single-sex education, and comics.
Along Those Lines is Peter's second book to be published by Paul Dry Books. His first, the 2003 book about birding, The Verb 'To Bird', earned critical notice when it was named a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection.