Top stories published by Nina Sankovitch in August of 2011

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Aug 17, 2011

Wishing for Letters Home

Years ago, I found a trove of old letters. Like something out of a novel, I found the letters in a broken-down steamer trunk buried under moldy blankets in a dilapidated shed attached to a decrepit row house. The house was on West 78th Street in New York City and I’d just become its…

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Aug 1, 2011

The Magic of the Bookmobile, Take Two

Thanks to Shelf Awareness, for sharing bookmobile memories from Stephen King.

My own memories of the local bookmobile is of a silvery boxy mirage, hovering and glowing in the heat of the Chicago summer sun (nothing like the latest model…

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Aug 11, 2011

The Friendship Between Two Tortured Souls

Given the title of this review, you might think Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard (translated by David McLintock) is a depressing read. But despite the tortured nature of the individual souls of the two friends, one friend being Paul Wittgenstein…

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Aug 8, 2011

Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett: What We Don’t Know About Banks, Each Other and Ourselves

What we don’t know about banks and the power they wield is the backdrop to Adam Haslett’s marvelous novel, Union Atlantic, in which he reveals how little any of us know not only…

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Aug 3, 2011

The Magic of the Bookmobile, Take Three (and a Saddle)

Having shared my own memories of going to the local bookmobile, and a special bookmobile memory from Stephen King, I now have the most amazing — and inspiring — bookmobile story to share with you: a man who brings books to rural…

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Aug 30, 2011

Book of Lives, Loves and Letters

A Book of Secrets by Michael Holyrod tells the true stories of women of means but not of certain parentage, power, or steady money; in varying degrees of success, these women forged lives and loves, and wrote tons of letters (luckily for all of us). Holyrod turns those…

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Aug 10, 2011

Adam Haslett, Geraldine Brooks, and Me!

I am thrilled to be speaking along with Adam Haslett, whose book Union Atlantic I just reviewed, and Geraldine Brooks, author of Caleb’s Crossing, tomorrow August 11th on Cape Cod.

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Aug 23, 2011

Eudora Welty: Casting a Stark and Beautiful Light on the South

One nice offshoot of The Help and its new movie version, is all the attention that Eudora Welty is (rightfully) getting, ten years after her death. Welty’s incisive and beautiful ability to expose the South in all its…

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Aug 5, 2011

Great Words from James Baldwin

I remember when I read Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin for the first time. I was on vacation with my parents, in Bermuda. It was March and for days on end rain came down. The temperature never ventured above sixty degrees. My parents and I sat in chairs by windows…

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Aug 15, 2011

Travelling Through Time

I have my sons to thank for one of my wonderful literary adventures this summer. We were out on Long Island, spending the day canvassing the streets of Sag Harbor. My oldest son had noticed a used bookstore on our way into town and insisted that we backtrack to find it. He headed off…

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These were the top 10 stories published by Nina Sankovitch in August of 2011. You can also dive into daily archives for August of 2011 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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