This is a compilation of excerpts from various writings.
The 'Sermon of an Agnostic on the Feast of St. Thérèse [of Lisieux]' is a 20-page tirade worthy of a Thomas Bernhard character.

looks like it's still in print as a Faber Finds, but I want that cover!

My 'nice' copy has a vignette of Kinuko Craft's 1970s cover illustration for the Macmillan mass market, which I read fortysomething years ago (not my actual copy, this is garnered from the internet).

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and kept up a secret but regular correspondence with Mosher, even after he remarried, up until his death. He published at least a couple of her translations.

Translator and publisher were exes: at age 18 Mosher married a local girl, Ellie Dresser. But she later divorced him, moved to New York City, and then reportedly died. In fact, she was very much alive, but took a new name for herself, "Aimee Lenalie,"
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Here is Aimee Lenalie's 1901 translation for Thomas Bird Mosher, a Portland, Maine, publisher.

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Wallace Stegner, Janet Lewis, John Gardner, Ivan Doig . . . I'm sure I could think of more.

shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award back in the day (2010)

where I always want to roll the window down and yell

'So Much for That Winter' is made up of two novellas: 'Minna Needs Rehearsal Space' (which Pushkin first published as a stand-alone edition) and 'Days.'

Karate Chop is where I started, that and Wild Swims (both story collections).
I've met my Danish cousins and their neighbors in a North Jutland hamlet. They seemed a happy, well-adjusted bunch. But after reading Nors, I begin to wonder...