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Lessons from John Gardner
Last week when I was at the Baltimore Book Festival browsing through the titles at Daedelus Books’ tent, I came across new copy of an old favorite book about writing, John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for … Continue reading
Doomed Couples
In 1960, Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award. The title story of the collection is a novella that tells of the doomed romance between Neil Klugman, a recent class college graduate who works in a library and … Continue reading
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Sense Memory and a Boy Scout Camp
I have always been envious of writers who are able to effectively render the natural world. I grew up in the city so in some sense, nature is a foreign land to me. It is, however, a foreign land in … Continue reading
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September in Maryland
Joshua Winslow New York 24th Hagerstown, Maryland September 11, 1862 Miss Sarah Davison Winslow, New York My Dearest Sarah, After a hard march of five days, we have stopped, at least momentarily. We are near Hagerstown, Maryland. I’m not sure … Continue reading
Words of Love
Does this work for you: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: How about … Continue reading
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