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A literary journal in book form. Essays, fiction, poetry, and art.
A literary journal in book form. Essays, fiction, poetry and art. Contributors: Stanley Crouch, Mike Wallace, Barbara Probst Solomon, April Deller. Writers from Mexico, Kenya, Israel, and France. Art: David Newman, Bill Anthony and Lorraine Shemesh.
THE READING ROOM/4, a literary journal in book form features fiction, essays, poetry art. In this special International issue there is fiction from Europe, Cuba, Kenya and new American voices. Scientist Gerald Holton on terrorism, Joseph Roth, Barbara Probst Solomon on Marcel Duchamp's secret obsessions, new art by Larry Rivers, a section of Juan Goytisolo's new novel on Bosnia.
THE READING ROOM/3, a literary journal in book form features fiction, essays, poetry and art. In this issue: Amoz Oz, Saul Bellow, Juan Goytisolo, Norman Birnbaum, Judith Rossner, Stanley Crouch, Barbara Probst Solomon, Stephen Dixon, Elizabeth Gaffney, Don Maggin, Alan Cheuse, Lionel Abel, Michael Carroll, Angel Vasquez.
This novel created a transatlantic literary sensation when it was first published in 1960 in the United States, and shortly afterward, in England. Set in Manhattan during a summer in the late 1950s, the story tells of a young woman who submits to a risky deception in order to obtain a legal abortion.
A memoir about an American girl's personal odyssey in post-World War II Europe, "Arriving Where We Started" offers "a deeply engaging, marvelously intelligent story about growing up . . ." ("The New York Times").
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A new take on the Great Depression that offers a fresh perspective on the 1930s by expanding the canon of Great Depression emotions beyond despair and fear, and by mining a wonderfully eclectic archive of sources.
Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County’s Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the neighboring communities. Families hunted its immense flocks of migrating waterfowl, fished its waters, trapped muskrats and mink, and harvested wood and medicinal plants. As farmland prices rose, however, the value of the land under the water became more attractive to people with capital. While residents fought bitterly, powerful outside investors overrode local opposition and found a way to drain...
Four seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh “Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the Trees The Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampsh...