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Michael Paulson

Content by Michael Paulson

  • Love and loss under Western skies

    In this novel of the modern American West, Mark Spragg exposes the stark lives of two men struggling to find happiness amid the raw landscape of Wyoming. Read more »
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    Eleanor of Aquitaine led a remarkable life queen of England and France, participant in a Crusade, mother of Richard the Lionheart, patron of troubadours, benefactor of convents, and actor in numero Read more »
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    In his second novel, The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Frederick Reiken chronicles four years in the life of teenager Anthony Rubin. Read more »
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    In Tom Perrotta's new novel, Joe College, Danny juggles his working class background with the social and academic demands of Yale. Read more »
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    ljaz Cosini, the river guide and narrator of Death of a River Guide, undergoes a vivid, mystical journey through time and space while slowly drowning in a Tasmanian river. Read more »
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    Issue: June, 2001
    alph Messenger is a cognitive scientist with a fondness for cheating on his wife and ruminating on the nature of human consciousness. Read more »
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    Issue: July, 2001
    very bachelor actor-bartender living in New York City needs a female friend to serve as a sounding-board, advisor and drill sergeant. Read more »
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    lexander Short works in the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers as a reference specialist, spending his days amid call slips and idiosyncratic librarians. Read more »
  • Struggling in the South

    Robert Morgan paints a searing portrait of a North Carolina family during the 1920s in his latest novel, This Rock. Read more »
  • What if God were one of us?

    Issue: March 2003
    What if, say, God were a Manhattan father named Blaine who cures his son of cancer, discusses theology with a Catholic priest and proves his divinity by winning $100,000 playing blackjack at t Read more »