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...suburbs. Mayor Richard Lee, a giant of ’60s-style urban liberalism, steered hundreds of millions of federal dollars into town but succeeded only in wiping out entire neighborhoods in the name of “urban renewal.” New Haven sprouted a small forest of bulbous towers in the best tradition of Science Center Brutalism. Crime soared. “Inner city” was hardly too harsh a euphemism...
Inspired equally by the ocean, forest animals and Joy Division, the three-year-old band has risen quickly in profile. Since the release of their debut, they have enjoyed glowing, awestruck reviews from music publications on both sides of the Atlantic. They have also developed an infamous stage show that now features locally pruned foliage, a few toy birds and a stunning, seasick climax that—so far—stands as their greatest achievement...
Pappaw taught me the difference between education and wisdom. Schooled only through ninth-grade, he never read Thoreau, but I think he was a transcendentalist at heart. He was always happiest outside. He pointed out the forest fingerprints of deer or rabbits even though, in his equanimity, his eyes seemed still. He found meaning in the pace of nature, particularly in the rural tension between civilization and the unsullied beyond...
...Wake Forest, Boston College, Connecticut, Northeastern,” began Williams...
...Lady of the Forest never goes quite as deeply into spiritual revelation or narrative resolution as readers might want. But it gives us an unflinching picture of Hawthorne's descendants in the wake of Kurt Cobain. More than that, it shows Guterson to be a serious and searching craftsman, very much in the American grain and determined to take himself further, into questions of possession (and of dispossession). Sometimes it feels as if all the neglected voices of the Pacific Northwest--self-righteous slackers, trailer-park priests, the sexually abused--are pouring through him in this book. What we choose...