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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 …

… hands are balled into fists, her eyes on the lookout for oncoming traffic—this though we are on a country road with hardly any oncoming traffic, only grazing sheep. Dozens, hundreds … been my nature to cling to the literal. Perhaps it was to compensate for the extent to which my siblings had fucked up …