Description
Collecting Raymond Carver
One of the literary giants of his generation, Raymond Carver was equally adept as a poet, essayist or a short story writer. Carver Country is a place where people move into apartments, but before long move on to somewhere else that looks very much the same. It is a place where responsibilities bear down like crushing weights, and flight from responsibilities brings no relief.
The WPA State Guides
Toward the end of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government established The Federal Writers Project as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal program. Out of it came The American Guide Series, which consists of more than 200 published books. We present a discussion of the State Guide Series, books that have preserved memories of America as it was in that bygone era.
A Checklist of the State Guides
The first in the series, published in 1937, was Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture, written by Vardis Fisher. Like all the books in the series, it is hard to find in a first, especially in any kind of dust wrapper.
Books into Film
Men Without Women, a book of stories by Ernest Hemingway; The Killers, films by Robert Siodmak and Don Siegel
Ten Years Ago
June 1992 Checklist Update: Sara Paretsky
July 1992 Checklist Update: Robinson Jeffers