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On Walden books: are the new Thoreauvians masters of self-denial or just self-promotion?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN Henry David Thoreau retreated to the woods, he famously told his readers that he wanted "to...
Mother Jones, 11/01/08 by Michael Agger · More from publication -
Shyness: how Normal Behavior Became a sickness
Shyness: how Normal Behavior Became a sickness By Christopher Lane. Yale University Press. $27.50. Shyness: how Normal Behavior Became a sickness...
Mother Jones, 11/01/07 by Michael Agger · More from publication -
Poor People
Poor People By William T. Vollmann. Ecco. $29.95. Poor People By William T. Vollmann. Ecco. $29.95. Take James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous...
Mother Jones, 03/01/07 by Michael Agger · More from publication -
Blocking the Courthouse Door
Blocking the Courthouse Door By Stephanie Mencimer. Free Press. $26. Blocking the Courthouse Door By Stephanie Mencimer. Free Press. $26. Stop...
Mother Jones, 01/01/07 by Michael Agger · More from publication -
Courtney Eldridge: turning streams of consciousness into a river of promise
Unlike a great many writers, Courtney Eldridge wasn't raised on Masterpiece Theatre and Judy Blume. While she was growing up in Colorado with her...
Interview, 09/01/04 by Michael Agger · More from publication -
CANDIDATE
Careful observers at the Democratic National Convention in Boston this week may notice an unusual encounter, one that the historian Daniel Boorstin...
New Yorker, The, 08/02/04 by Michael Agger · More from publication
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