Works
He is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He spent nearly a decade researching and writing his biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author, Saul Bellow. He is also the author of My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale, an adaptation of a series of articles he did for The New Yorker, and The Great Pretender, a semi-autobiographical novel about coming of age in the 1960s. He is a longtime board member of the Harvard Advocate, which has previously published his work.
- How They See Us: Meditations on America. Atlas. 2009. ISBN 978-1-934633-10-6., regarding some global views of America.
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“They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to see that seashore where man’s works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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From the earth-poles to the line, All between that works or grows,
Every thing is kin of mine.”
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“It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)