Four families old she stands against the rain Green shutters with wooden flecks And a porch gently warped and peeling The broom-clean foyer stands behind the oak and glass door, A common mosaic in black and white tile beneath our … Continue reading →
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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 →
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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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 →
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 →
