Tag Archives: National Book Award

America’s Unofficial Poet Laureate: Mary Oliver

Posted on 04/18/2017 by

Judging by her phenomenal sales, Mary Oliver surely rates as America’s unofficial poet laureate, and yet the anomaly that she’s never held the office since its inception in 1937. I have to confess that I hadn’t heard of her, despite … Continue reading →

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Peter Matthiessen: Homegoing

Posted on 04/08/2014 by

We lost a great writer, Peter Matthiessen, this past weekend. A co-founder of the renowned Paris Review and author of thirty-three books, both fiction and non-fiction, his supreme subject was Nature and, sadly, Man’s pervasive impact upon it: Species appear, … Continue reading →

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My passion for reading

Posted on 04/01/2013 by

I’m always on the look out for a good read, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s fact or fiction.  Biographies, memoirs, diaries, you name it.  But science fiction, romance, adventure, I like these, too.  And then there are the how-to … Continue reading →

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