MY WRITINGS
BOOKS
Language and Lewis Carroll. Mouton-De Gruyter. Janua Linguarum, Series Maior, 26, (1970), 245 pp. LC: 73-101966. A scholarly work.
“On the Battlefield: Cairo, Illinois," ed. Robert D. Sutherland. Bloomington-Normal, Illinois: Community for Social Action, 1970. 39 pp. Widely distributed free of charge in McLean County, Illinois as a public service, and electronically published on this website.
Sticklewort and Feverfew. The Pikestaff Press (1980), 355 pp. A novel, with 74 illustrations by the author. (Received the 1981 Friends of American Writers Juvenile Book Merit Award for author/illustrator.)
The Farringford Cadenza. The Pikestaff Press (2007), 528 pp. A suspenseful, humorous mystery novel.
The Observations of Ulysses, or, Notes by an Occasional Correspondent, being Dispatches sent to THE EVENING STAR, a Newspaper in Dunedin, New Zealand by Robert John Sutherland, of Keokuk, Iowa from March, 1881 to January, 1883, edited by his great-grandson, Robert D. Sutherland (published as a book, June, 1999), 64 pp. News, opinion, commentary.
FINAL SAY. A Legacy Memoir for My Descendants by Robert Donald Sutherland. In 19 sections. Electronically self-published and available as PDF file on flashdrive. (2009—2017) 1) Foreword to my Descendants 2) Contents 3) Chronology (timeline) 4) Parents and Grandparents 5) Formal Education 6) Reading 7) Working 8) Social/Political Activism 9) Teaching Career 10) Writing 11) Editing & Publishing 12) Artwork 13) Humorous Incidents 14) Travel [ a) Introduction; b) The Caribbean: Montserrat; Antigua; St. Croix; c) Yucatan; Honduras #1; Costa Rica #1; d) Scotland #1; England #1; e) Wales; Cornwall; England #2; f) Northern Ireland; Scotland #2; England #3; Irish Republic; g) The Galapagos Islands; mainland Ecuador; h) India; i) Russia; j) New Zealand; k) Southwestern United States; l) Hungary; Austria; The Czech Republic; Poland; m) Spain; n) Italy; o) Honduras #2; Guatemala; Belize; p) Costa Rica #2; q) Mexico (Oaxaca); r) Peru; s) Norway; Denmark; Sweden; Finland; t) Panama ] 15) Music & Film 16) Parenting 17) Thoughts on Aging 18) Conclusion 19) Cumulative Index
POEMS
“Philippic,” published electronically on this website (2020)
"The Madman," Mikrokosmos #1 (1959), published electronically on this website (2020)
“Succession,” Charlatan #1 (1963). Foldout section on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
"At St. Columba's: Cairo, Illinois, 1970,” published electronically on this website (2020)
"For Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535),” published electronically on this website (2020)
“A View of the Conrad Hilton from the Wabash YMCA,” The Post- Amerikan (1974)
“Fadeout (for Jim Scrimgeour),” [ 1978 ], published electronically on this website (2008)
“On the Spoil Heaps (for Dorothea),” in Applecart #1 (1979), 23 and This Awkward Mud, READ ILLINOIS, Illinois State Library (1984), 11
“Balboa Park,” [ 1984 ], published electronically on this website (2008)
“The Wonderful World,” in Light Year ‘87, ed. Robert Wallace. (Cleveland, OH: Bits Press, 1986), 176
“The Current Occupant of the White House Plans for War: February, 2003,” published electronically via the Internet in the Poets Against the War Anthology (2003)
"Epitaph for a Prolific Novelist," published electronically on this website (2009)
"Wupatki: North of Flagstaff,” published electronically on this website (2020)
"The Mummy,” published electronically on this website (2020)
STORIES
ESSAYS
On Literature
"Review of Daniel F. Kirk’s Charles Dodgson, Semeiotician," in Philological Quarterly, XLIII (July, 1964), 429-431
"Review of Roger Pfingston’s Nesting," in The Pikestaff Forum #2 (Winter, 1979), 21
“Forgettable Mysteries: An Exploratory Inquiry”, published as a guest-blog on Murder by 4 (January 11, 2012), and on this website.
On Writing“Nine Years to Grow a Raddermelish: or, Self-Publication, The Small Press, and the Joys of Doing-It-Yourself,” The Friends of Milner Library Newsletter, #22 (Spring, 1981), 3-6
“Some Reflections on the Writing of Sticklewort and Feverfew,” SIGNAL (International Reading Association’s Special Interest Group on Literature for the Adolescent Reader), VI, #9 (May, 1981), 1, 3-4, 13
“In Writing, Achieving Precision Leads to Effectiveness, Economy, and Clarity"
“Conventions of Written English Punctuation Usage: General Guidelines,” ISU Creative Writing classes, 1988
"Tact in Mystery Writing", published electronically on the blog Murder by 4, Jan. 1, 2010
"Creating Interesting, Believable Characters," published electronically on the blog Murder by 4, Feb. 1, 2010
"Humor in Mystery Writing," published electronically on the blog Murder by 4, March 1, 2010
“Sex, Intrigue, and Deadly Pursuit—St. Croix, 1981,” Mystery Readers Journal, 26:3(Fall, 2010), 54–58, and on-line on the Mystery Readers Journal website.
On Editing and Publishing
“By Way of Farewell: Looking Back on Nineteen Years of Editing and Producing The Pikestaff Forum,” in The Pikestaff Forum #13 (1996), 24-26
“Digital hasn’t unlocked door to world without gatekeepers,” under Literary Livelihood, in Literary License, Newsletter of the Society of Midland Authors (May-July, 2012), 7
On Education“The Teaching of English Composition to Gifted High School Students,” Illinois State University Bulletin, LXIII (Nov., 1965). 11-18 (Report of the Summer Institute in English, 1965)
“Education Through Freedom,” Readings for Rhetoric, ed. Frederick P. Kroeger, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1969, pp. 469-476
“Some Thoughts on Conceptual Learning and Information Retrieval,” broadside distributed at Illinois State University (March, 1969)
“Letting Students Be: Report on a Continuing Experiment in Education,” College English, 32, #7 (April, 1971), 733-739
“On Being Parents” (with Marilyn Sutherland), The Post-Amerikan (April/May, 1990), 7
“On Being a Father”, interview by Mary Blick for a college Sociology course in “Family” (1994), published electronically on this website (2008)
On Political Matters“FBI Surveillance in Bloomington-Normal: A Local Citizen’s File,” The Post-Amerikan, 14, #3 (June-July, 1985), 4-7. [Printing, and discussing, selections from RDS’s FBI file obtained under the Freedom of Information Act; as a public document paid for by taxpayer’s money]
“Toward Strengthening a Sense of Literary Community,” Illinois Writers Review, 9, # 2 (Winter 1990), 32-43
“Coping with Hate Speech and Hate Crimes,” The Post-Amerikan (Aug/Sept., 1999), 12-13
“How Does One Sustain Oneself as a Social Activist in an Indifferent or Hostile Environment?” presented to the Unitarian Universalist Church, Bloomington, IL (July 9, 2000) published on this website [2008]
“Defending Civil Liberties Against the Government’s ‘War on Terrorism’,” a speech given and distributed in printed form to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington-Normal, IL on March, 2003
“The Essence of Patriotism in a Difficult Time,” The INDY (April 16, 2003), 2
“TASERS: Bloomington’s Own Version of ‘Shock and Awe’?”, The INDY (April, 2004), lead article
"Guidelines for Demonstrators," broadside distributed by hand on numerous occasions; published electronically on this website (2020)
On Various Topics
“Problems of Shared Governance at Illinois State University: Management by Objectives--Catch-phrase of the Seventies,” quotation from panel sponsored by AAUP chapter at, ISU (December, 1974)
“Response to Donald Shields and John Cragan’s ‘The Interfacing of Rhetorical Theory and Computers for Speech Writers,’” delivered to the Rhetoric section of the Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, IL (1977)
“Report on the American Writers Congress.” New York (Oct. 9-12, 1981), The Post-Amerikan (Nov.,1981) (eye-witness account and critique)
“Thoughts on Aging,” in round-robin Lifegame Newsletter of David Sutherland’s Pomona College graduating class (1987)
“Businesses learning to live with HIV and AIDS in the workplace” (with Beth Raboin), Business to Business: McLean County’s Monthly Business Magazine (May, 1999), 6, 8
“HIV/AIDS: Update on a Growing Epidemic—Are You At Risk of Becoming Infected?”, The INDY (Aug., 2003), 7
