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Unsayable: A Life in Writing

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By Megan Nelson, Eddie S. Glaude, Ashanté Reese
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Michael Cunningham. Random House, $30 (288p) ISBN 979-8-217-19833-7 Pulitzer winner Cunningham (Day) offers eloquent reflections on life, love, and literature, as well as valuable pointers on craft and storytelling, in this sterling memoir. Much of the account focuses on the intersection of Cunningham’s private and artistic lives, as when he traces how a memory of observing his mother baking a cake at age seven emerged decades later in The Hours.
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Frederick Jackson Turner’s Groundbreaking Frontier Thesis Was a Flop When He First Read It

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By Megan Nelson
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Chicago. July 1893. It was already warm when Mae Turner left the University of Chicago campus and joined some friends to spend the day at the Columbian Exposition (known more popularly as the World’s Fair). She and her husband, Frederick Jackson Turner, had left their two toddlers back home in Wisconsin, so this trip to Chicago was a vacation for Mae—but not for Turner.
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THE WESTERNERS | Kirkus Reviews

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By Megan Nelson
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A useful survey of the “messy, complicated lives of the real people who built the West.” A historian examines the forgotten figures—whole swaths of them—in the settlement of the Western frontier. Every Western historian knows the name of Frederick Jackson Turner, who, in 1893, declared that the American frontier was closed. (It was just a year after Wounded Knee, after all, pretty well the closing shots of the American Indian Wars.) No one remembers Turner’s wife, Mae.
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