Still No Word

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646222040
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still No Word From You written by Peter Orner and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, “Another day and still no word from you.” Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather’s plea: “Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.” From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, “You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal,” comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner’s highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother’s copy of A Coney Island of the Mind, he’s stopped short by a single word in the margin, “YES!”—which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Beginning of Spring three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner’s solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache. Still No Word from You is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.

Author : John Mills
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460256549
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still No Word From Nancy written by John Mills and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who admire John Mills’ writing will be happy that he has broken a long silence with Still No Word From Nancy. This book includes three personal essays in the manner of Mills’ well-received Thank your Mother for the Rabbits, while a fourth—which relates the experience of walking the pilgrim’s route to Santiago de Compostela—employs a different, but no less entertaining, narrative technique.

Author : Shannon Webb-Campbell
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550815887
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still No Word written by Shannon Webb-Campbell and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a collection of poetry. Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self. Patient, searching, questioning and at times heartbreaking - these poems reveal the deep past within the present tense and the interrelations that make our lives somehow both whole and unfinished. And though, the poems are political at times, this is not politics for the sake of politics: here, it's a matter of the human heart. Ranging from reflective to angry, from sensual to humorous, This poetry inhabits that mercurial space between the public and the private.

Author : R. S. Gwynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Word of Farewell written by R. S. Gwynn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. S. Gwynn is America's greatest poetry satirist. This book collects the finest poems from the author's previous five collections -- all printed in limited editions, and now long out of print. A leading figure in the renaissance of form and narrative in American poetry, Gwynn is a master of song and storytelling. A rare, true wit.

Author : Clint Smith
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316492914
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Word Is Passed written by Clint Smith and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted. Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith's debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Stowe Prize Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021

Author : Robert Luce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Legislation ...: Legislative procedure.-[2] Legislative assemblies.-[3] Legislative principles.-[4] Legislative problems written by Robert Luce and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter A. Lillback
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596384477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thy Word is Still Truth written by Peter A. Lillback and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new collection of Reformed thinkers writings, from the Reformation to today, on the inerrancy of Scripture. To these texts contemporary scholars add commentary reflecting the stance of Westminster Theological Seminary.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potter's American Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackwood's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: