by bertbaby | Aug 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 10: On this day in 1637 Edward King, a college friend of John Milton’s, drowned at sea. Milton published “Lycidas” three months later, giving the elegiac tradition one of its most famous poems and, three centuries later, giving Thomas Wolfe...
by bertbaby | Aug 9, 2013 | Book Reviews
The power of memory and longing is undimmed in this classic memoir.
by bertbaby | Aug 9, 2013 | Book Reviews
There’s lots to like in Caleb Crain’s marvelous debut novel, Necessary Errors. This is a coming-of-age story of exiles and expats finding freedom in post-Velvet Revolution Prague. In elegant prose and with great tenderness, Crain captures all the...
by bertbaby | Aug 9, 2013 | Book Reviews
Three Boston families cope with an impending hurricane, cataclysmic flooding and their own destructive secrets in Ethan Hauser’s impactful debut novel.
by bertbaby | Aug 9, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 9: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was published on this day in 1854. Thoreau planned a lecture tour, hoping to showcase his new book, but he was forced to cancel because of disinterest. This was mutual, judging by his journal: “To read to a...
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