494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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The Manuscript of a Short Book I've Written
In 2019, my partner of 15 years, Scott Hardy, who was a poet we've met in writing classes at Harvard as undergraduates and then we met later. And I hadn't illness sort of hanging over him much of that time and finally died in 2019. He sent me this short book he'd written about how death actually inspired the life force in these three really important American thinkers. It is a book I think you could say would be really important for people who are grieving to read.
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