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Marilynne Robinson: The Blessing of Language and Memory
You will not be forced to clear much shelf space for a Robinson collection; there are only four books. And apart from the first book, they won’t put a large dent in the family exchequer. What you will get for a relatively modest investment will be two volumes of pithy, challenging nonfiction and two novels of surpassing beauty.
Nick Tosches: Measuring Fame
A self-taught scholar, Tosches has written 15 books across a wide range of subjects, running from fiction to poetry to biography, as well as reporting, criticism and musicology, and soon there will be a children’s book.
Collecting William Least Heat-Moon
Born in 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri, Heat-Moon grew up William Lewis Trogdon. He was named for William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, not inappropriate for a writer who was to become famous for Blue Highways: A Journey into America,which chronicles his three-month road trip around the country. The writer’s Osage father called himself Heat-Moon, since he was born in July. His younger son, William, became William Least Heat-Moon.
Ten Years Ago
Kurt Vonnegut
Books into Film
Birdman of Alcatraz