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In Praise of “The Effort to Hold Light” by Guy Reed

Every day before lunchtime, the boxy white mail van pulls up for a moment to the mail box across the road. Upstairs in my bathrobe at my computer with a window view of the road I’m tempted to interrupt whatever … Continue reading

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Is “Nineteen Eighty-Four” a Wilderness Classic?

One happy legacy from my years of living in a Catskills log cabin has been my fondness for stories about writer’s cottages. Elsewhere, I’ve written about Arthur Miller drafting Death of a Salesman in a cabin he built for himself … Continue reading

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