Author and humorist Mark Twain (middle) sits with noted American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend (left), and David Gray, editor of the Buffalo Courier (right). (Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
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Just published in Winter 2020, "Arpeggio of Redwings, Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joy" is a collection of nature essays by Maryland writer Audrey Y. Scharmen, taken from her prize-winning nature columns of the bay area. A chronical of the year’s unfolding seasons in 60 essays that are wry, acute and lyrical observations connecting readers to nature’s daily miracles.
Definitely should include Tom Horton. He is a long-time activist and naturalist for the Bay.
I would certainly include John Barth, Tom Horton, William Warner, Anne Tyler, Taylor Branch, Michael Chabon, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
For election year 2020, a reading of "What It Takes" might be in order. Richard Ben Cramer produced this nonfiction political masterpiece from Horns Point on the Choptank River in Dorchester County.
And John Dos Passos who lived his later years at Spence Point on the Potomac and is interred in Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery in Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia,
Mr. Reynolds:
I enjoyed the eight literary figures from around the bay piece but stumbled on some poor and preventable editing problems. It seems like this piece could have used one more cycle through the editing wash.
Issues:
1. The book title "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is not italicized like Tom Sawyer and the rest.
2. The sentence beginning "Clancy was well known for his" is never finished.
3. Likewise, under the Morrison entry "A Mercy" is not italicized.
4. The exclusion of John Barth
FWIW,
-SKGibb
I believe Anne Tyler and Laura Lippman should be included.
Please change Allen to the correct Allan, for Edgar A. Poe.
Though he did not get along with his foster father, Mr. John Allan, he did take the surname as his middle name...however he didn't use the entire name in his signature.
Perhaps "Eight literary figures", but if you include Clancy, it's seven writers and a hack. Incredibly, there is no mention of John Barth.
My favorite Chesapeake author is Gilbert Byron (1903-1991) from Chestertown, who wrote 14 books including the regional classic "The Lord's Oysters".
Please add the incomparable Frederick Douglass!
Thank you!
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Just published in Winter 2020, "Arpeggio of Redwings, Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joy" is a collection of nature essays by Maryland writer Audrey Y. Scharmen, taken from her prize-winning nature columns of the bay area. A chronical of the year’s unfolding seasons in 60 essays that are wry, acute and lyrical observations connecting readers to nature’s daily miracles.
Definitely should include Tom Horton. He is a long-time activist and naturalist for the Bay.
I would certainly include John Barth, Tom Horton, William Warner, Anne Tyler, Taylor Branch, Michael Chabon, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
For election year 2020, a reading of "What It Takes" might be in order. Richard Ben Cramer produced this nonfiction political masterpiece from Horns Point on the Choptank River in Dorchester County.
And John Dos Passos who lived his later years at Spence Point on the Potomac and is interred in Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery in Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia,
Mr. Reynolds:
I enjoyed the eight literary figures from around the bay piece but stumbled on some poor and preventable editing problems. It seems like this piece could have used one more cycle through the editing wash.
Issues:
1. The book title "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is not italicized like Tom Sawyer and the rest.
2. The sentence beginning "Clancy was well known for his" is never finished.
3. Likewise, under the Morrison entry "A Mercy" is not italicized.
4. The exclusion of John Barth
FWIW,
-SKGibb
I believe Anne Tyler and Laura Lippman should be included.
Please change Allen to the correct Allan, for Edgar A. Poe.
Though he did not get along with his foster father, Mr. John Allan, he did take the surname as his middle name...however he didn't use the entire name in his signature.
Perhaps "Eight literary figures", but if you include Clancy, it's seven writers and a hack. Incredibly, there is no mention of John Barth.
My favorite Chesapeake author is Gilbert Byron (1903-1991) from Chestertown, who wrote 14 books including the regional classic "The Lord's Oysters".
Please add the incomparable Frederick Douglass!
Thank you!
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