Henry L. Carrigan Jr.
Content by Henry L. Carrigan Jr.
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As a young boy, Howard Frank Mosher would sit at the knee of his honorary uncle, Reg Bennett, and beg him to tell stories.
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With his probing curiosity, his dazzling research, his elegant prose and his deep commitment to biodiversity, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist (The Ants) and novelist (The Anthill
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In the modern board game of Life, players come to a fork in the journey very early on: get a job or go to college.
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On October 31, 2006, the great novelist William Styron died, surrounded by members of his family who tried to ease his journey into the life beyond.
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Since at least the 1960s—when millions of college students carried a copy of Hermann Hesse’s classic tale of Buddhist spirituality, Siddhartha, in their back pockets—Wester
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Much like John Updike’s elegant novels, Jonathan Franzen’s fiction paints a rich portrait of middle America as it copes with its failures, its hidden dreams and its ruptures.
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Since 1934, more than 100,000 brides have traveled to a store at the end of a tired-looking block on Main Street in Fowler, Michigan, in search of the perfect wedding dress.
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In her best-selling memoir, Happens Every Day, Isabel Gillies discovered that her husband had left her for another woman.
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When her sister Anne-Marie died after a brief but debilitating illness, Nina Sankovitch took refuge in her old purple chair, surrounded by stacks of books that both she and her sister loved.
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As a young man, Roald Amundsen set out with a friend on an Arctic training exercise, skiing west of Oslo to a mountain range with a plateau that extended to Bergen.
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Trim, athletic and recently retired, Dave Simon enjoyed playing tennis and was working hard to take his game to a new level.
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In her admiring and humorous foreword to Marshall Chapman’s unforgettable memoir, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller, novelist Lee Smith praised the way that Chapman excels at images that
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Browsing through a sale bin in search of summer reading, Stephen Greenblatt (Will in the World
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When we hear the word “frontier,” our thoughts often turn to the wild, untamed West, full of wagon trains, cattle drives and little houses on the prairie, where rugged men and women eke
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In one of the most hilarious and poignant scenes in his classic comedy Annie Hall, Woody Allen brilliantly depicts the art of seduction.
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Echoing loudly down the corridors of history, several events in 1968 and the years just before it rang incessantly in the ears of Americans, and African Americans in particular.
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Indian land makes up about 2.3 percent of the land in the United States, and the Indian population in the US is slightly over two million.
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Why do we fall in love with people we barely know?
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On a hot Florida Friday night in mid-July of 1949, Willie Haven Padgett had little on his mind but a night of dancing and drinking and whatever else that might lead to as he picked up Norma Lee Tys
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In April 2011, the Library of America permanently established Kurt Vonnegut, who died in 2007, in the literary firmament with its publication of Novels and Stories: 1963-1973, a collection
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In 2008, Susan Conley embarked on the most adventurous, challenging and harrowing road trip of her life.
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One morning more than five years ago, Diane Ackerman arrived in the high-tech cove of the local hospital to find her husband, the novelist Paul West, trailing so many tubes that he looked like a je
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