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A sylvan delight: “The Forest” by Alexander Nemerov

April 11, 2023 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 3 Comments

This new book, set during Jacksonian America, seduced me with surprising ease. Its impressive, sometimes dramatic, sometimes reflective episodic tales fascinate with their combined historic and invented characters from the 1830s. Here's a brief review.

Run to Bethlehem

December 20, 2013 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 2 Comments

A Merry Christmas wish via poet W. H. Auden, whose "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio" is available in a new edition from Princeton University Press. I so loved this discovery.

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