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My Town: Writers on American Cities
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July 19, 2016

Cover of the English version of the Edward R. Murrow: Journalism at Its Best of the About America Series of publications.

America refracted through these writers’ minds is not one place but many. Writing careers are rooted in the sensual memories of early childhood, of a particular time and place, a small town or a farm or a city neighborhood. Frequently, for this group of writers, the sense of home means an immigrant culture, with a parent or grandparent from another land. For many, the central word about America is “possibility.”

(Book, 84 pgs.)

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