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Average rating: 4.35 · 165 ratings · 51 reviews · 12 distinct worksSimilar authors
All the Ruined Men: Stories

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Half a Man

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Postscript to War

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Personal Geography

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The Human Touch

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Marching Orders: Poems

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Memory of Spring: Poems

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Confronting the Past

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Shadow of the LionsShadow of the Lions, by Christopher Swann


For ten years, Christopher Swann worked on a novel never destined to see a bookshelf. It wasn’t just that the plot—involving the Irish Republican Army descending on coastal Georgia—was convoluted but that the whole story seemed unbelievable. After reading one of the later drafts, his wife Read more of this blog post »
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Them by Ben Sasse
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Some excellent insights on the fractured condition of America. The personal solutions are excellent (unplug as much as possible and grow roots in your community), but the societal solution falls more in the wishful thinking category (if everyone does ...more
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Who Needs Friends by Andrew McCarthy
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I've read several of the Best American Essays books, and this was the weakest by far. These mostly academic treatises read like term papers written for post-doctoral studies. Some were interesting, but most were a tiresome slog. ...more
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Disappointment River by Brian Castner
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Brian Caster brings to life all the difficulties and joys of this long canoe journey up to the Arctic, 1,125 miles following the entire length of the Mackenzie River, most of it during perilous stormy weather. One of the oft-repeated phrases will sti ...more
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I'm normally a huge fan of Collins and I adore dogs, so I had high hopes for this book; however, this was a pedestrian effort from the master of the everyday poem. ...more
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Paper Girl by Beth Macy
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A harrowing account of how fear, outrage, and false information are fracturing America as viewed through the lens of the author's return to her hometown. ...more
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