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Wallace Stegner Crossing to Safety

Stegner, Wallace: Crossing to Safety

A man wants to be a poet. His wife wants him to be an academic....
Theodore Dreiser American Tragedy

Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy

I'd been meaning to reread Dreiser's An American Tragedy for years and finally got around...
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth

Just finished rereading Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (August 28, 2015) about New York's...
Edith Wharton The Custom of the Country 1

Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country

Undine Spragg, the anti-heroine of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, understood that if...
Vincent Van Gogh 1 Starry Night

Star Nacht

Once upon a time, I published a big fat book, so very big and so...
Val & Sonny 15

Val & Sonny

Valorie Fachs managed a travel agency in the early 1970s. When I dropped by to...
Davers 10

Manek Daver, Patron of Arts

The couple pictured above are Manek & Dilnavaz Daver. I took the picture on the...
19th Century Blake

Sexton Blake

19th Century Blake 20th Century Blake Sexton Blake was the poor man's Sherlock Holmes, created...
HARRIS BANK, 111 W MONROE

At the Harris

HARRIS BANK, 111 W MONROE TRIO, my book about the Schumanns and Brahms, took 20...
LILITH

J. R. Salamanca / Lilith

I was 17, living in Bombay where I was born and raised, when I first...

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