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Novelists on the Threshold
… Dancing Saints. By Ann George Leslie. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. The Wind and the Rain. By Joyce Horner. … adjustment to the world (Horner, Coons, Saxton, also Arey and Seager to a limited extent). He is not … a vocabulary that is generally confined to waterfront rowdies and a little group of pseudo-intellectuals that ought …
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City of Dust, City of Stones
… adventure of crossing the border, dealing with eight checkpoints between the border and Santo Domingo, harassed by surly Dominican soldiers and police, and the tiring flights back to … video, looking at a landscape broken by an earthquake that completely changed a nation. Recently, I was talking about …
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Omnipresence
… buildings, collecting like water, concentrating as the sun dies. Dozens of them, chained fast under the pretense of … like this.”   4.  “I live right here,” Nathan says and points up two floors. “The light and sound come in my … Hook’s 1991 crime tally: twenty-one murders, ten rapes, 526 robberies, and 364 assaults. Michael H. points to a tree …
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Limbo
… and crushed them. As pains shot through my stiff neck, I complained, Why paint a masterpiece it hurts to look at? To … year old art by masters of the Early Renaissance soon to become a pile of bloody plaster. I fell through a crack in my … the ceiling spun. “You’re doomed to go to limbo when you die” called out a girl I loved more than champagne. Her rich …
Jefferson’s Commonplace Book
… Jefferson’s Commonplace Book The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson, A … general interest. Historians, however, may well find other points of importance. The first five hundred and fifty-six … Christianity in the Appendix, yet “Jefferson knew and studied (him) separately,” and he was the source of many ideas …
Hospital Sidewalk
… lamb’s wool on which, after surgery, patients bleed. People die with eyes fixed on digital clocks which flip numbers … away home to save her children. I wonder if little things comfort anyone. Not me. The business of love is living big. …
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