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    A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
    by Ralph James Savarese
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    Special Double Issue of the Seneca Review
    Edited by Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese
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    Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy
    Edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese
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    Disabilities Studies Quarterly
    Edited by Emily Thornton Savarese and Ralph James Savarese
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August 27th, 2013

Just published: “Easy Breathing Forever.”

Interview in Stuck in the Middle with You: Parenting in Three Genders. Jennifer Finney Boylan.

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  • Sample Writings

  • Opinion Pieces

    • On to College!
    • The Silver Trumpet of Freedom
    • A Question for All: Do You Doubt My Puberty?
    • Easy Breathing Autism
    • You’re Adopting Who?
  • Creative Nonfiction

    • Eulogy for F.D. Reeve
    • The Exile of Not Exactly
    • Myself on High
    • River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies
    • The Dark Night of Synecdoche
    • The Lobes of Autobiography: Poetry and Autism
    • Severe and Profound
    • “Piecing Together What History Has Broken to Bits”: Air Flight Florida 90 and the PATCO Disaster
  • Poetry

    • The Justice and My Father
    • Nor Yet a Dream of War
  • Scholarship

    • Just Published: “Neurocosmopolitan Melville.”
    • Just published: “I Might Be Famous.”
    • Just Published: Moving the Field: The Sensorimotor Perspective on Autism
    • Just published: “Easy Breathing Forever.”
    • Just published: “From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism: Beyond Mere Acceptance and Inclusion.”
    • Forthcoming: “The Critic as Neurocosmopolite: What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies: Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese.””
    • Forthcoming: “What Some Autistics Can Teach Us about Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach.”
    • Literate Lungs: One Autist’s Journey as a Reader
    • Gobs and Gobs of Metaphor: Dynamic Relation and a Classical Autist’s Typed Massage
    • “Organic Hesitancy”: On Speechlessness in Billy Budd
    • Toward a Postcolonial Neurology: Autism, Tito Mukhopadhyay, and a New Geo-poetics of the Body
    • Nervous Wrecks and Ginger-nuts: Bartleby at a Standstill
  • Interviews

    • More Than a Thing to Ignore: An Interview with Tito Mukhopadhyay
    • Lyric Anger and the Victrola in the Attic: An Interview with Stephen Kuusisto
    • An Interview with Ralph J. Savarese, Ph.D.
Ralph James Savarese
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Ralph James Savarese
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  • Reasonable People
    Reasonable People
    A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
    by Ralph James Savarese
  • The Lyric Body
    The Lyric Body
    Special Double Issue of the Seneca Review
    Edited by Stephen Kuusisto and Ralph James Savarese
  • Papa PhD
    Papa, PhD
    Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy
    Edited by Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese
  • Disability Studies Quarterly
    Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity
    Disabilities Studies Quarterly
    Edited by Emily Thornton Savarese and Ralph James Savarese