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Remembering my Uncle Bill, a Catholic monk and a scholar who left the church to spend his last 30 years in the French Pyrenees, tending his garden and translating Thucydides from Greek into Latin.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower
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In a world where our time and attention are fractured into smaller and smaller bits, legendary biologist and runner Bernd Heinrich is a throwback, a man who has carved a deep grove in his patch of Maine woods.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photo by Jesse Burke.
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Arkansas poet Frank Stanford killed himself in 1978, at the age of 29. Today, novelist Michael Ondaatje calls his work “the most overlooked writing I know.” A look at a great Southern genius.
Men’s Journal
Edited by Larry Kanter. Photograph by Ginny Stanford.
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A return to singer Kurt Cobain’s hometown, Aberdeen, Washington, 20 years after his suicide.
Sunset
Edited by Nino Padova. Photographs by John Clark.
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Searching for the ghost of Russian novelist Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photographs by Oleg Gritskevich.
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The poet Mary Barnard was an extremely private person, and single throughout her entire life. Her verse was spare and a bit cold, devoid of people. So how is that her 1958 book—Sappho: A New Translation—perfectly captured the Greek lyric poet, in all her sublime sensuality? Edited by Chris Lydgate.
Reed Magazine
Edited by Chris Lydgate.
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Writer Paul Bowles spent most of his adult life in Tangier, Morocco. But when you search for his ghost there, what you find is the soul of the city.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell.
Republished in Best American Travel Writing 2004.
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Gilmanton, New Hampshire, population 3,000, is where novelist Grace Metalious wrote Peyton Place—and also where I spent every summer of my childhood. Local rumor holds that, in fact, Grace did not write the book.
Salon
Edited by Laura Miller. Photo by Larry Smith.
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