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Cover of "Crossing" by Tim Winton with autumn trees and a stone wall.

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...
Book cover of Edith Wharton's '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...
Book cover showing a woman in a yellow dress on a veranda, titled 'Of the Country'.

Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country

Undine Spragg, the anti-heroine of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, understood that if...
Starry Night over a small town with swirling sky patterns.

Star Nacht

Once upon a time, I published a big fat book, so very big and so...
A woman holding a koala with a man standing behind her in a natural setting.

Val & Sonny

Valorie Fachs managed a travel agency in the early 1970s. When I dropped by to...
Black-and-white photo of a smiling couple standing outdoors near a vintage car.

Manek Daver, Patron of Arts

The couple pictured above are Manek & Dilnavaz Daver. I took the picture on the...
Black and white illustration of a man smoking a pipe.

Sexton Blake

19th Century Blake 20th Century Blake Sexton Blake was the poor man's Sherlock Holmes, created...
Modern building with glass windows reflecting the sky and street activity.

At the Harris

HARRIS BANK, 111 W MONROE TRIO, my book about the Schumanns and Brahms, took 20...
A book titled 'Lilith' with a dark background and a mysterious pink light.

J. R. Salamanca / Lilith

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

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