Features | March 01, 2021
Review: Collected in 2020–Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note
Jr. ,Samuel Pickering
Collected in 2020—Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note
Sam Pickering
Scott Russell Sanders, The Way of Imagination: Essays. Counterpoint, 2020, 259 pp., $16.95. Paperback.
Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays. The University of Georgia Press, 2020. 171 pp., $22.95. Paperback.
Gilbert Allen, The Beasts of Belladonna. Slant Books, 2020. 156 pp., $34 hardcover, $19 Paperback.
Jay Parini, Borges and Me: An Encounter. Doubleday, 2020. 299 pp., $27.95. Hardcover.
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