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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: October 2014
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Becoming an Old Man: Thoughts on Turning Seventy-Seven. The aspiring author, Bowdoin College, 1959, and the aging writer today). While shaving one morning recently, I looked at myself in the mirror to discover that I have become an old man. Not to speak of the increased difficulty of walking the several miles I once covered easily every day. I may look old, but I do not feel old. Fortunate as we are to have vital information at ...
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: Kenneth Warren (1952-2015)
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Monday, May 25, 2015. Kenneth Warren was a rare public leader who knew when/how to push the envelope of public discourse, to seek and participate in deep, locally defined values in an era nonetheless when the local is being uprooted in favor of global development. He was a man dedicated to finding the deeper currents that might drive a community, and thus a world, forward into a brighter and more humane future of greater good. Ken was that rarest of critic...
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: August 2014
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Monday, August 18, 2014. Re-reading Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises.". I have written this essay to mark the recent publication by Scribner of the Hemingway Library Edition of The Sun Also Rises. Supplemented with early drafts and deleted chapters.). 8220;I guess it isn’t any use,” he said. “I guess it isn’t any damn use.”. 8220;Everything.”. Robert Cohn to Jake Barnes. The Sun Also Rises. I first read The Sun Also Rises. Beginning in my second year in col...
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: January 2014
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Saturday, January 4, 2014. Reading Rumaker: A Review by Peter Anastas. Eroticizing the Nation: Michael Rumaker’s Fiction. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged), by Leverett T. Smith, Jr., New York: Triton, 2012, 241 pages, $18.00. A Day and a Night at the Baths. By Michael Rumaker, New York: Triton, 2010, 127 pages, $18.00. Robert Duncan in San Francisco. Are you reading Rumaker? You’d better.”. Charles Olson to Peter Anastas, in conversation, 1962). There...
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: June 2013
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Brian James reviews A Walker in the City: Elegy for Gloucester for North Shore Art Throb. A Walker in the City. Peter Anastas - Photo Courtesy of Mike Dean/Gloucester Daily Times. It is our Gloucester! But even these brightest glimpses live in the shadow of Anastas’ most prevalent theme: loss. After descriptive reveries about working. A Walker in the City reminds us how much we hunger for the articulation of our environment. Lan...
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Back Shore Press, collaborative publishing in Gloucester Massachusetts
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Work by Peter Anastas. All books by Peter Anastas may also be purchased at AbeBooks.com. A Walker in the City. To purchase from Amazon.com. Set in the historic fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts during the summer of 1993, Decline of Fishes depicts the battle, led by an intrepid group of local citizens, to prevent the construction of a shopping mall on the last remaining parcel of the city's harborfront. Available from book stores or from distributor Byers Books, Ann Byers,. Work by Schuyler Hoffman.
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: June 2014
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Monday, June 23, 2014. A friend put the bug in my ear. 8220;Why don’t you write about how people in Gloucester love to talk? He suggested the other day while we were discussing local habits and customs. 8220;To tell the truth,” I replied, “I’ve been thinking about it.”. 8220;You mean you’ve been yakking about it up and down Main Street, right? 8220;My God,” my friend broke in, “the ear is bent as much as the elbow in this town! I always keep a snack and so...
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: June 2015
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Enduring Gloucester, June 18, 2015. St Peter’s Fiesta, which opens its 88. Isaac and “Papou” go to Fiesta. Isaac with “Papou” and his dad watching the greasy pole contest. Isaac points to the memorial plaque for Charles Olson at 28 Fort Square. As having said, “When our guests arrive we want them to know they’ve arrived somewhere. 8221;—as if the historic Fort were nowhere. What should ultimately have been an occasion of joy with m...
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas: April 2015
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A Walker in the City: Writings by Peter Anastas. Thursday, April 2, 2015. Un-American Activities: A Review. Benjamin Hollander , In the House Un-American,. Clockroot Books, 2013), pp.150, $15. I spoke Greek before I spoke English. It was the language of our home, the one I absorbed from the cradle, spoke with my parents and my grandmother, who never learned English. When I offered that my father came from Sparta, Greece, a girl piped up—Marie Byrnes: how can I ever forget her name? I went home crying.