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Desolation Rowboat

…to sink into its underworld, a place of “wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with a vigor unknown to the sane” and “flower ladies in their bonnets like cowled…

Bearing Witness

The intersection of our spiritual, commun*]}*al, and political lives has always been David Dark’s intellectual territory. In books like The Possibility of America and the recently revised Life’s Too Short

How to Live and at What Cost

…stinginess allowed me to work minimally (as a personal trainer at the YMCA) and devote the majority of my time to reading and writing. So my pathological frugality is at…

Poet for the People

…world” — it’s practically all that matters. In this wonderful book, he shows us all that — and also how to make his favorite cocktail, the Handsome Johnny. So I…

Privilege, Pageantry, and PR

…experience aspects of that emotional imprint long before they ever attend university. The book also briefly riffs on the idea that the seasonal rhythm of college football — all the…

Gratitude and Loss

…to learn from the book that many U.S. adoptees still have no legal right to see their original, unredacted birth certificates. Are there policy changes around adoption you’d like to…

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