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Susan Salter Reynolds on Beautiful Unbroken by Mary Jane Nealon

“Discoveries: Mary Jane Nealon”

September 24th, 2011
Susan Salter Reynolds on Ecomind by Frances Moore Lappé

“Discoveries: Frances Moore Lappé”

September 24th, 2011
Susan Salter Reynolds on Touch: Poems by Henri Cole

“Discoveries: Henri Cole”

September 24th, 2011
Susan Salter Reynolds on The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge

“Discoveries: Beryl Bainbridge”

September 3rd, 2011
Susan Salter Reynolds on Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller

“Discoveries: Alexandra Fuller”

September 3rd, 2011
Susan Salter Reynolds on Fante: A Memoir by Dan Fante

“Discoveries: Dan Fante”

September 3rd, 2011
Eli Jelly-Schapiro on Cultures of War by John W. Dower

“Days of Infamy ”

August 1st, 2011
Sesshu Foster on A Giant Claw by Gronk

“Droll Ontology”

July 22nd, 2011
Shelley Salamensky on Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky

“Deceptively Simple”

July 22nd, 2011
Rita Williams on Bird Cloud: A Memoir by Annie Proulx

“Don't Fence Her In”

May 23rd, 2011
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