Tuesday, August 31, 2010

What I am Reading

Apart from the usual academic history stuff:

Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood. Hazel Motes has to be one of the strangest and most unusual characters in American literature.

John Baskin, New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village. Baskin explores life in a 1970s Ohio village that was abandoned to allow construction of a dam.

T.H. Breen, Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories. A great model for thinking about a how a professional historian does local history. This is my third go-around with this book.

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