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Chapter 57: “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley (1992)

September 18, 2012October 13, 2020 Andrew 4 mins read

“Most issues on a farm return to the issue of keeping up appearances. Farmers extrapolate quickly from the farm to the farmer. A farmer looks […]

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Chapter 54: “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)

July 24, 2012 Andrew 8 mins read

“He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely […]

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Chapter 47: “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck (1940)

June 15, 2012 Andrew 3 mins read

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” When I read John Steinbeck’s masterpiece, […]

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Chapter 22: “Now In November” by Josephine Johnson (1935)

November 22, 2010 Andrew 6 mins read

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.” Now that […]

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Chapter 21: “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck (1932)

November 17, 2010 Andrew 5 mins read

“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out […]

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