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Twice-Told Tales

September 30, 2009

Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics

Article on the Poetry Foundation website

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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

May 4, 2009

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

by Eula Bliss

Tess's Review in The Barnes & Noble Review

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Letters to a Stranger

March 1, 2009

Letters to a Stranger 

by Thomas James

Tess's review in the Boston Review

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The Year in Reading 2008: A Conversation

December 8, 2008

Tess's thoughts on the best in reading in 2008.

In The Barnes & Noble Review

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Sons and Other Flammable Objects By Porochista Khakpour

September 24, 2008

Sons and Other Flammable Objects 

by Porochista Khakpour

Tess's Review in the San Francisco Chronicle

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Waterlight and Findings by Kathleen Jamie

July 1, 2008

Waterlight: Selected Poems

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Findings: Essays on the Natural and Unnatural World

by Kathleen Jamie

Tess's review in the Boston Review

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Eudora Welty: Delta Wedding

May 26, 2008

Delta Wedding

by Eudora Welty

Tess's Review in The Barnes & Noble Review

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New York Times Magazine Green Issue

April 20, 2008

Tess has four pieces in the recent Green Issue of the New York Times Magazine

Eat: Is Local Always Better

Act: A Clear Sense of Emission

Build: Earth Works

Live: Colin Beavan

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The Year's Best Reading: 2007

December 28, 2007

Tess's thoughts on the best reading in 2007.

In the Barnes & Noble Review

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

December 24, 2007

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

Translation by Simon Armitage

Tess's Review in The Barnes & Noble Review

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