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Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love
Our Boston Writers Celebrate the City They Love Author:Various Authors [Edited by Andrew Blauner] — [**Written by Various Authors] — [*Read by Various Readers] — What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines? Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better... more » group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and reprinted essays from Boston area writers past and present, all celebrating the city they love. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, they responded to his call to celebrate this great city by providing almost all brandnew works. From Mike Barnicle to Pico Iyer, Susan Orlean to George Plimpton, Leigh Montville to Lesley Visser, Pagan Kennedy to James Atlas, here is a collection of the best essays by our best writers on one of America's greatest cities. [**Authors included are: André Aciman, Jabari Asim, James Atlas, Mike Barnicle, Madeleine Blais, Bud Collins, George Howe Colt, Kevin Cullen, Hugh Delehanty, Leslie Epstein, Israel Horovitz, Pico Iyer, Pagan Kennedy, Dennis Lehane, Bill Littlefield, Charles McGrath, David Michaelis, Tova Mirvis, Leigh Montville, Susan Orlean, Robert Pinsky, George Plimpton, Katherine A. Powers, Carlo Rotella Nell Scovell, Jessica Shattuck, Susan Sheehan, David M. Shribman, Shira Springer, Scott Stossel, Neil Swidey, E. M. Swift, Sally Taylor, John Updike, Lesley Visser, Joan Wickersham, Richard Wilbur] [*Readers are: Joe Barrett, Peter Berkrot, Susan Boyce, Bernadette Dunne, Johnny Heller, Malcolm Hillgartner, Kevin Kenerly, Ralph Lister, Carrington MacDuffie, Jim Meskimen, Meredith Mitchell, Bronson Pinchot]
Essays included are: Pride or Prejudice / Transplants / The Athens of America / Walking an American Avenue / Things in Threes / Wounded, Boston's Heart Remains Strong / Getting Over Boston / Running toward the Bombs / Next Stop: Back Bay / The Everything Bagel / America's Brain / The Classroom of the Real / Boston Marriage / Messing with the Wrong City / Boston Sports: Something for Everyone to Love and Complain About / A Boy's Boston / Our Chowder / From Somewhere / Bothering Bill Russell / Accents, or The Missing R / Souvenir of the Ancient World / Medora Goes to the Game / Boston, 1972 / The Landscape of Home / So You Want to Be in Pictures / Jamaica Pond: My Walden / Boston a la Carte / Bonfire of the Memories / In the Long Run / Reading around Boston / Thinking Locally, Acting Globally / The Former Legends / This is the Way I Point My View / Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu / Diamonds (and Dugouts) are a Girl's Best Friend / A City Not on a Hill / Patriots' Day« less