Tag Archives: American Literature

Partners — Brexit 1776, Hamilton (the musical)

Posted on June 25, 2016 by

A slow recovery from pneumonia is more pleasant if you take a good book from your library and play some music — I’ve been listening to Hamilton (the original cast recording) and reading along in Hamilton—The Revolution. Two hours of glorious, … Continue reading →

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Admiration — Libraries and Antiquarians

Posted on May 1, 2016 by

Admiration: I like a big sprawling library with open stacks, and Green Library is one of my favorites. Thousands and thousands of books on shelves to pull out and browse. There is a light on in the stacks; maybe someone is browsing. … Continue reading →

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Donna Tartt — The Goldfinch Unchained

Posted on January 10, 2015 by

The Goldfinch is a very small oil painting of a finch chained to its perch that is on display in a museum in the Netherlands. It was painted 300 years ago by a student of Rembrandt and is very famous. … Continue reading →

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Zero To Hero — Donna Tartt spins a murder tale in Vermont

Posted on January 3, 2014 by

Murdered—Bunny is dead. He’s lying there at the foot of Mt. Cataract buried by a fateful April snow: “He’d been dead for ten days before they found him, you know. It was one of the biggest manhunts in Vermont history— … Continue reading →

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Jonah — Biblical Story Made Modern

Posted on December 17, 2013 by

Today, the gleaming towers of Las Vegas have eclipsed the great American desert of southern Nevada. Author Joshua Max Feldman remembers an older, more primitive time in the epigraph of his novel The Book of Jonah: —and Jonah saw in … Continue reading →

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Judy Blunt–Leaving Home, Braking Clean

Posted on November 4, 2013 by

Breaking clean is never easy. Memoirist and poet Judy Blunt described it this way: I left Phillips County with a new divorce and an old car, with three scared kids and some clothes piled in back. We followed the sun … Continue reading →

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Elmore Leonard– The Old West of Lawmen and Outlaws

Posted on August 20, 2013 by

Elmore Leonard wrote about the old west–Arizona Territory, 1860. His early short stories were about the Apache, cowboys, sheriff deputies, stage-coach drivers and, of course, gun-toting outlaws. In 1953, Leonard was working as an advertising copywriter when he published “Three-Ten … Continue reading →

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