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Michael Shelden
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Michael Shelden’s Latest Biography Tells of Herman Melville’s Secret Love
BY JANET MANDELSTAM Herman Melville was living in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, far from the roaring surf, when he wrote Moby Dick,…
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100 Reasons to Love Bloomington (August Cover Story)
BY CARMEN SIERING WITH BARB BERGGOETZ & ELISABETH ANDREWS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE CAGLE It’s a wonderful town. It was no easy task honing down the…
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Feature Story: Bloomington’s Literary Lights
Eight local authors who have gained national prominence in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. BY JEREMY SHERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM KRAUSE Bloomington’s literary landscape has,…