We talk with author Susan Cheever about AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY and Pamela Thompson tells us about her debut novel, EVERY PAST THING. Today’s show begins in the early nineteenth century and ends in that century’s last year-November, 1899. We start our time travel with our first guest Susan Cheever. She takes us to Concord, MA where [...]
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American Bloomsbury and the Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
March 19th, 2007
We talk to Susan Cheever about AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. And editor and author Kitty Florey tells us about SISTER BERNADETTE’S BARKING DOG: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.

