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A nation riven, yet the center held

“I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman famously wrote in his hymn to the common man. So does Bill Rivers in his rollicking, moving, and beautifully written first novel, Last Summer Boys, a story placed on the intersection of private – familial – life and public virtue in dark times. In 1968, a city boy, 13-year-old […]

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