Monika Gehlawat is Associate Director of the School of Humanities and Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi where she teaches courses on contemporary, modern and world literature, critical theory, and visual art. She has published essays in Post 45: Peer-Reviewed, The James Baldwin Review, Contemporary Literature, and Literary Imagination. She also serves as Critic for the Center for Writers at USM and Series Editor for Literary Conversations.

• Chapter 1: Why Bother? Literature and Communicative ActionChapter Two: Love, "Lucky Pierre Style," in Frank O’HaraChapter Three: James Baldwin’s Pursuit of Potentiality Chapter Four: "Ourselves, Our Single Self": Talk as World in Grace Paley Chapter Five: Andy Warhol’s Philosophy as Dialogue (From A to B and Back Again)Conclusion: Walk the Talk