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Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood
American literature is full of books about fathers. Philip Roth, John Updike, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, David Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Lethem, and many, many more have written ...
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ESPN writer David Fleming’s ‘Who’s Your Founding Father?’ gives a fascinating look at the first Declaration of Independence
A recent book from ESPN senior writer David Fleming, Who’s Your Founding Father? One Man’s Epic Quest To Uncover The First, True Declaration of Independence, has the advantage of covering both ...
Books on Drug Trafficking, and Kant, Line Adam Haslett’s Shelves
His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations ...
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A reckoning or rapprochement
By contrast, today’s books about fathers tend not to be about having a reckoning with them but about rapprochement, as Ralph Gerstenberg observed in a 2021 Deutschlandfunk podcast. Books about fathers ...
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Dwier Brown, Costner’s father in Field of Dreams, set for Book Signing at Chef’s
Brown said during a recent interview about his book tour. “However, it’s not just people asking for my autograph. They also want to share poignant stories about their fathers, and express the ...