Sixty- Three

… posts til  #4000.  On June 5, 2005, I wrote the first, rather casually, never dreaming that a blog would become part of my writing life… Several books, a step- grandson, Parkinson’s, many friends gone… Selling some guns I should not have (well I do that every WEEK)… I need without question to write a …

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Road Books

My thesis for years has been that there are three great 1950’s “Road” books. Two are obvious to the literate: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The other  may be MORE obvious to naturalists, many of whom miss one or the other of the first two; Wild America, by Roger Tory Peterson …

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