A Book Scavenger’s Dream
It’s a beautiful, cool, crisp, and sunny morning, and I’m on my way to the ReUse Center in search of books. The … Read more
It’s a beautiful, cool, crisp, and sunny morning, and I’m on my way to the ReUse Center in search of books. The … Read more
I first encountered The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear in 1967. Had it been nothing more than a weirdly illustrated bundle of limericks, it … Read more
The desert, like the past, can be a thorny and sometimes serpentine place for people to live; in the interweaving stories throughout … Read more
When I was a brand-new college student, one of my teachers told me I might like Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw based … Read more
Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner Part adventure, part love, and all true. This is not only a story about the growing romantic love … Read more
In 1964, while a graduate student at Florida State University, I bought a copy of A Geography of Subsaharan Africa, by Harm J. … Read more
In August of 1988 I was flying home after a summer studying in Italy. I was working through a mild bout of aerophobia … Read more
Alexander Weinstein’s impressive andstunning short story collection Children ofthe New World: Stories is not just sci-fidystopian stories of the future, but morelike … Read more
On our return from our cottage in New Hampshire this past summer, we stopped at a motelin Binghamton, N.Y. for the night. … Read more
It was 100 years ago that an extraordinary storyof survival took place. Ernest Shackleton led anexpedition in an attempt to be the … Read more