About The Irish Way • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 1, 2012) A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. […]
Archives for February 28, 2012
Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden, on tour May 2012
About The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (April 24, 2012) A beautifully written biography from an internationally acclaimed poet, The Paper Garden is at once the story of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a “graceful meditation on botany, nature, life and age” (New York Times Book Review). […]