Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
by William W. Warner
Phinney by Post #95
Warner, an administrator at the Smithsonian Institution, was nearly sixty when he published this book, his first. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977, and has never been out of print since. It's a grace... (Tom)
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan
by Darryl Pinckney
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New Book of the Week by Darryl Pinckney In 1973, as a Columbia undergraduate, Pinckney talked his way into Elizabeth Hardwick's writing class, and—at least for the decade and a half covered by this wo... (Tom)
Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night
by Julia Kuo
MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #84
It's a rare kids nonfiction book that is well-written and beautifully illustrated enough to make a bedtime book that kids and grownups will both enjoy, but Seattle's Kuo achieves a lovely balance betw... (Tom)
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