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… plaza called the Parque de las Palomas near the port. Ships come up here to take the grain and seed of the pampas off to … I think it was, and conversation turned to those who died for their faith, and the distinction, such as there is, … though they are not always obvious. Rather, they are like points of light exploding in the bright day, not readily …

… 23 more books—Lingeman’s second volume threatens to become as bloated as Dreiser’s oldest brother Paul, the … Dreiser, a born liar obsessed with the facts. The audience for these two earlier works is scholarly; Lingeman, … part of the reason for his achievement is that these materials have been made easily accessible. Lingeman’s Dreiser is …

… death. He is able at last to relive the moment his father died in his arms and to lay his grief to rest. There is … more morose as he pursues a psychologically damaged 26-year-old room clerk. When he understands that his wife … themselves over to the energy in mutability itself. The points of tension in these stories may be described as …

… and relied on the magic of the general-delivery mail system—also known as the poste restante. For those who have missed … will slowly yellow from missing you. Together, such letters comprise the poste restante, the post that stays. And unless … needed help identifying the mangled, unidentifiable bodies, Simonides realized that by envisioning himself moving …

Reza’s Restaurant, Chicago, 1997            the waiters milled about filling sumac shakers clearing away plates of onion and radish            my father pointed to each person whispered Persian about the old man with the silver                  beard …