Bruce Holsinger
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The Gifted School
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A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1)
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The Displacements
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The Invention of Fire (John Gower, #2)
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Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror
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A Burnable Book: Free Sampler
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Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
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2001
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The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
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The Marxist Premodern
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Thank you Susan! I hope you like my historicals, which are very different sorts of books--but let me know your reaction if you get a chance to read them.
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Thanks so much for the kind words, Heather, and for the great question. With that project (called "The Great Displacement" in the novel), I wanted to address the larger national story around the aftermath of Luna. The main narrative follows one famil
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"I truly feel like I have just read a masterpiece. There were times when the reading was so intense that I had to take a break. And even, just now, as I have finished, I feel my heart beating a little faster. Much to think about…”maybe muddling throug"
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"I was in the middle of what I think will be one of my top books of the year (FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS) when my preorder of this book came out. What’s one to do? My choice was to binge the new!
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"This novel is compelling, thought-provoking, and somber with excellent character development and a beautiful narrative arc. In the aftermath of the world's first Category Six hurricane, Daphne and her three children are displaced from their lavish Mi"
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I absolutely loved this book--lush, rigorously researched, wonderfully written, and with twists that will leave readers thirsting for more. Like the city that serves as its setting, the novel immerses the reader in an environment both intimately fami ...more | |
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“Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.”
― The Gifted School
― The Gifted School
“You must convince your readers that your characters are flesh and blood rather than words on dead skin, that their loves and hatreds and passions are as deep and present as the readers' own. Your task is to delight, to pleasure, to lift your reader to another sphere of being and then strand him there, floating above the earth and panting for more lines.”
― A Burnable Book
― A Burnable Book
“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t. One kind of friend who will spend hours sifting through your psyche; another who will sacrifice half a day to scrubbing your toilets.”
― The Gifted School
― The Gifted School
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