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The Harvard Black Rock Forest
Originally published in the June 11, 1984, New Yorker, this lengthy essay is a sharp-edged inquiry into the generational institutions of our national life. With the same …
Family Bible
'Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As …
The Ninth Decade
The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing demographic in the …
Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky
In essays with settings that range from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience with diverse …
Weathering Winter
The author reminds readers that the season of brown twigs and icy gales is just as much a part of the year as the time when the tulips open and tomatoes thrive. He keeps track of …
Embalming Mom
In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. …
The Great Chain of Life
Originally published in 1956, ""The Great Chain of Life"" brings a humanist's keen eye and ear to one of the great questions of the ages: 'What am I?' A scholar of literature and …
Ninth Decade
The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing demographic in the …
Great Expectation
In ""Great Expectation"", Dan Roche gives a man's perspective on what it means to start and expand a family relatively later in life. Through a series of diary entries in turns …
Letters to Kate
Sorrow is ""not a state, but a process"" that needs ""not a map but a history...There is something new to be chronicled every day,"" writes C. S. Lewis in ""A Grief Observed"". …
Essayists on the Essay
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied source …
Dream Not of Other Worlds
When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a ""Negro"" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he …