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Tracy
Memorial Library
304 Main Street
New London, NH
(603)526-4656
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described below
A PAGE DEEPER
THE ROAD WASHES OUT IN SPRING
by Baron Wormser
As Winter's premonitions shiver our timbers, pull your chair closer to
the wood stove and light the reading lamp. Baron and Janet
Wormser lived on a dead-end, dirt road, 'in the middle of so-called
nowhere'. They found mystical satisfaction in their day to day
lives of cooking, tending fires, bringing in wood, lugging water,
growing their own vegetables, observing with pleasure the necessity and
beauty of their 'rituals that reflected the weather and seasons'. They
found time to read and read and starlight nights ran so long Wormser
found plenty of time for reflection and to write and re-write his
poetry, revision taking him months and years until he eventually would
'hit the wall of finitude'. Wormser's A Poet's Memoir of
Living Off The Grid describes how 'the fire they made each day was the
metaphorical core of their days in the woods', the unintentional beauty
of 'living in a house whose technologies were primitve and felt like
living in a poem'. Put another log in the stove and enjoy this
book.
C.D.
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Novelist
A reader's advisory service that provides information and
resources on over 100,000 titles, 75,000 full-text reviews, and more
than 36,000 subject headings to help locate the best in fiction. Access
to this database is provided by NH State Library and requires a
username and password. Please
call, email, or visit the library and we'll be happy to provide the
information you need to use this resource. You may also make an
appointment to have a
librarian teach you how to use Novelist.
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International
IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
An annual international award based on literary merit. Books are
nominated, a short list is created and one
winner
is selected.
The Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction and nonfiction winners make great choices for book discussions
The
Booker
Prize
This annual award is chosen from publisher-nominated books. All entries
must be full length novels written in English by a
citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.
National Book Award
Awarded to an American author for a book published in
the
current year. The award is given in October during National Book
Month.
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New
Hampshire
Authors
The New Hampshire State Library provides
a list of New Hampshire authors, both living and dead. The list
includes individuals born in NH, as well as NH transplants.
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The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire
State Library was established to celebrate and promote reading, books,
literacy, and the literary heritage of New Hampshire and to highlight
the role that reading and libraries play in enriching the lives of the
people of the Granite State.
New
Hampshire Center for the Book
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Last updated: 10.09.09
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