All Over but the Shoutin’ By Rick Bragg. Vintage Books, 329 pages, $14.00 Ava’s Man By Rick Bragg. Random House, 272 pages, $13.00 An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood By Jimmy Carter. Touchstone Books, 288 pages, $15.00 I am not a southerner, though I was raised like one. I grew up in […]
Wen Stephenson
Wen Stephenson is the managing editor of the Web edition of PBS's
Frontline and the former editor of The Atlantic Online.
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Travel: Lonelier Planet
I was in Bombay on January 17, 1991, sitting in the Indian Airlines office in the financial district, when I heard the first rumors of bombs falling on Baghdad. My mission was to make last-minute ticket changes while my traveling companion, a fellow American, went to Bombay’s Victoria Terminus to book us on that evening’s […]
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Mrs. Vendler’s Profession
Poor, old Robert Frost–destined to be knocked around as a political tennis ball ever since that day in December 1960 when John F. Kennedy called him at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and asked if he would read a poem at the upcoming inauguration. According to Frost biographer Jay Parini, Kennedy first suggested that Frost […]