Reading Off the Beaten Path
MICHAEL DASWICKExceptional books and reads far from the mainstream are recommended by an award-winning novelist, who also shares pearls from the world of travel, food and pop-culture. Surprising, discerning and always very entertaining.
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WHALE-TALE: THE IDEA BEHIND MOBY DICK
The origens of Moby Dick
From time to time, we write a light-hearted HodgePodge letter, which often include follow-ups and curious literary and culinary topics. Here we go.
Where did Herman Melville get the idea for Moby Dick, the vengefu...
ANGST and the AMERICAN 30 YEAR OLD.
Collectible: The Moviegoer, 1st US Edition
THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy. Easy book to read, tricky book to understand. Walker Percy is the much-lauded and very thoughtful writer whose novels added to the Canon of so-called Southern Litera...
A RARE PIONEER RULES HER RANCH
This will be a very simple and straightforward column. RANCH WIFE is a memoir by Jo Jeffers, who grew up in Minnesota with an absolute fascination for all things out West. Her vision of the Great American Dream was to ride horses across wid...
Dairy Queen and Western Wisdom
The German commentator Walter Benjamin wrote an essay on the decline of storytelling and chatty conversation in modern society. The famous western author Larry McMurtry read that essay in 1980, sitting in the Dairy Queen in Archer City, Tex...
NEVERMORE: The Mysterious and Tragic life of Edgar Allan Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE.
A Biography. Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. by Kenneth Silverman
Poet, fiction writer, editor, vicious critic, literary innovator. Author Kenneth Silverman writes Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies. His classic o...
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Michael Daswick won both of Columbia's prestigious literary awards; he's written 6 acclaimed novels and has a keen eye for great books far off the beaten path.
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