Philip Roth’s

"manmade horizon, the brutal cut in the body of the giant city... when all the boy was seeing was the railroad's answer to the populist crusade to hoist the tracks above the … [Read More]

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Robinson Jeffers

"got" the relationship between the ocean and the land in a way that was simple but profound. Carmel & Big Sur, California. … [Read More]

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Wallace Stegner’s

Angle of Repose, an engineering term: the maximum angle of stable slope. One of 67 mines in the mining district east of Leadville, Colorado. … [Read More]

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Raymond Carver’s

Traylor's restaurant, where the preserved setting is typical of his short stories from decades ago. Port Angeles, Washington. … [Read More]

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Sinclair Lewis’s

Original Main Street and the Palmer House Hotel (the "Minniemashie House" in Main Street) where he once worked as a night clerk. Sauk Centre, Minnesota. … [Read More]

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Robert Frost’s

Interpretive Trail, where "Nothing Gold Can Stay" comes to mind at least twice a year in New England. Ripton, Vermont. … [Read More]

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Henry David Thoreau’s

Walden Pond cabin, a triumph of economy, where, for two years, two months, and two days he lived a life of the mind, stripped of "bawbels" and "gewgaws." Concord, … [Read More]

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Richard Ford’s

Haddamesque idyll: well-kept homes, shady yards and American flags anointed by a benevolent if languorous god. Hopewell, New Jersey. … [Read More]

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John Updike’s

Rabbit, run. This is the hill Rabbit ran up in the 1970 film version of Rabbit Run. Reading, Pennsylvania. … [Read More]

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Toni Morrison’s

Lake Shore Park, where "Black people were not allowed... And so it filled our dreams." Lorain, Ohio. … [Read More]

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