American Lives: A Reader [Preface & Introduction]

Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called “splendid” by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho. In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles tells how, for his Uncle Fred, a particular “Hard Luck Suit” imparted misfortune. Brenda Serotte describes a Turkish grandmother who made her living reading palms, interpreting cups, and prescribing poultices for the community. In “Son of Mr. Green Jeans,” Dinty W. Moore views fatherhood through the lens of pop culture. Janet Sternburg’s Phantom Limb muses on the dilemmas of a child caring for a parent. Whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, these glimpses into singular American lives come together in a richly textured, colorful patchwork quilt of American life.

El revisor de la politica y literatura Americana

Edited by: Antonio José de Irisarri.

El revisor de la politica y literatura Americana

Edited by: Antonio José de Irisarri.

The Californian.

Editor: 1891-, C.F. Holder.

The American musical magazine.

"Published in monthly numbers, intended to contain a great variety of approved music, carefully selected from the works of best American and foreign masters."

Classified list of educational periodicals : prepared by the Committee on standards of the Educational press association of America for the Department of superintendence of the National education association.

"A revision of the list pub. ... in the 5th Year-book of the Educational press association of America, April, 1929."

St. Nicholas.

Conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge.

Catalog of copyright entries.

Issues for 1898-1901 called v. 14-29. The volumes of the new series as numbered as follows: pt. 1, group 1, Books, v. 1-143; group 2, Pamphlets, etc., v. 1-43; group 3, Dramatic compositions, etc., v. 1-19; pt. 2,Musical compositions, v.1-41; pt. 4, Works of art, etc., v. 1-41.

Forest and stream.

Title from caption.

McClure's magazine.

Poole's guide to periodical literature

Appletons' journal

Subtitle varies: a monthly miscellany of popular literature; a magazine of general literature

The Journal of speculative philosophy.

Latest issue consulted: New ser., v. 15, no. 2 (2001).

The Arena

Second set consists of scattered issues.

Ayer directory, newspapers, magazines and trade publications.

"A guide to publications printed in the United States and possessions, the Dominion of Canada, Bermuda, Cuba and the West Indies" (varies).

The International review.

Title from caption.