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In a Family of Readers, Packing Up My Late Father's Library Was Hardest of All

In a Family of Readers, Packing Up My Late Father's Library Was Hardest of All

Seth Greenland on Remembering, Retaining, and Failing to
Exorcise Sentiment

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My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

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Laura Bogart

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By New Books Network | February 26, 2020

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Tim O'Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

The National Book Award-Winning Novelist Speaks to
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By Randy O'Brien | December 19, 2019

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