Bücher von Eric Larsen

Can words, poems, books-if used correctly-save the American republic? If you ask the gifted, beautiful Eveline Stahl, the answer is yes, absolutely. For Eveline, literature and words not only connect all things to one another, but they create invisible bands that surround Earth and protect it from harm.Though born far apart-she in 1909, he in 1941-Eveline Stahl and Malcolm Reiner are destined to meet, fall in love, and then to try to save the nation. When? Autumn 1933. Where? Iowa City, Iowa, where both are graduate students. Their plan? To go on the long walk into September 1947 and West Tree, Minnesota, where they try 1) to forestall the formation of the CIA and the start of the Cold War; 2) thereby to prevent the 1963 assassination of JFK; and thus 3) avoid the long decline of the nation into tyranny-a later and grievous outcome, nevertheless, that is watched, in 2028, from a window of his New York apartment, by an aged, defeated, lonely Malcolm Reiner, after finishing a book-this book-about his beloved and lost Eveline.From prize-winning novelist Eric Larsen, The Book of Reading is a timely, literary, patriotic-and deeply moving-novel.

America's citizens seem plagued by despair and frustration, much deeper today than the "malaise" President Jimmy Carter noted twenty years ago. Our political and social cultures are driven by issues morally complex and yet presented with simple-minded hostility. What's the matter with Kansas? What has happened to the once proud leader of the free world? How secure is our future? Does the republic stand or have we lost it already? Born in 1941, novelist, critic, and teacher Eric Larsen sees his own lifetime as paralleling the arc of a national dissolution, and in three penetrating essays he describes an increasingly desperate situation. A blindness has set in, he argues, producing writers no longer able to write, professors more harmful than helpful, a replacement virtually nation-wide of "thinking" with "feeling" while the population seems unable to grasp even the remotest outlines of such dangerous, radical change. In the tradition of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, Paul Goodman, and Christopher Lasch, Larsen offers an impassioned critique of where we once were, where we are, and where we're very soon going if we don't watch out.

The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it.

The vibration from each swing is reduced. But shopping for axes and their handles always has this come back into focus per how the head can't just go flying off into uncovered bystanders with one large swing.

One fever laid seeds on the glass and robins were too dry coming up for handling just out of view. CLP-4 cleans the action of drawers in many climates; large government contract, large eyes splashed to forgetting. Eyes larger than John Deere fog lights shuffling a deck in a corn field.

What's the poetic device for forgetting someone? Is it the wear on tires measured with Abe's head on a penny upside down? If you can see the top of his head it's time to replace your tires.

Query if we're alive or dead. Check the credit union roofing and dial tone, night buoys, body's carbon copy. Pension signature of my body, your blood numbers station combusts in a house; a corner house. 737 dumped its fuel on us. Night ketosis blooms dead pilots of Everest and left behind a thimble. Phantom index finger taps your phone number again- I remember everything we bought. Laid down heart attacks in glued beige, rolled out lichen. Brushed a windshield with baleen knuckles. Went back to the first apartment. Second.