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Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
Somerville, near the Cambridge line. The neighborhood was known as Little Lisbon,
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Summer had passed. The winter of boredom had set in and frost had formed in the crevices of Blackshear’s mind.
Margaret Millar • Beast in View
A number of those shipwreck survivors were introduced to the beauties of the atoll-like paradise in such a manner, and many of them stayed on to make a life there. The bounteous local waters supported thriving industries in fishing, shrimping, sponge diving, and even turtle raising.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Lauren Elkin • Florida by Lauren Groff review – rage and refusal as Earth reaps the whirlwind
When you are a westerner living on the East Coast, this is just the sort of folksy anecdote the city slickers expect you to tell. But I was the worst Montanan in history.
Sarah Vowell • The Partly Cloudy Patriot
modern Manhattan woman,