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Tag Archives: Lives of the Saints
“the roots of the oak trees in Audobon Park make strange music to me”
Another excerpt from Lives of the Saints, a novel of New Orleans, by Nancy Lemann. It was Latin American Night in the Quarter, in Jackson Square, starting at eight o’clock. The time is gone when we were “the gateway to … Continue reading
Cherished Books
I just moved, hired a company to do it for me because … well, because I just have too many damn books to move, and there is nothing heavier than a box of books. My former apartment was a 5th … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Canada, Catch-22, children's books, England, fiction, Herman Melville, Hopeful Monsters, Jane Austen, Joseph Heller, L.M. Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Lives of the Saints, Madeleine L'Engle, Mating, Moby Dick, Nancy Lemann, Nicholas Mosley, Norman Rush, poetry, Sylvia Plath
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