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February 14, 2019August 28, 2023 - Archives, Books, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Fiction, by Norman Lock

Employed by the U.S. Customs Service in New York City, under the by-then forgotten novelist Herman Melville, Shelby Ross is…

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August 1, 2012February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)

25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…

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January 12, 2012August 1, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

I Can Read for Miles and Miles: Field Report from the Moby-Dick Marathon

Last weekend I went to the Moby-Dick marathon, an annual event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where much of the landlubbing…

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