Henry Carter Hull

Collection of short fiction examining the social fabric of the United States in the twentieth century.

World War II nurse Christina Tucker arrives in a small Wisconsin town shortly after the war and tries to help the Tucker family heal.

In Boston, six very different people deal with corruption and redemption while watching their neighborhood go through the changes that are needed in order to make it grow.

Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It's all the more impressive,...

Explores the ways in which the continuing and polarizing nostalgia for an imagined America led to the entrenchment ofa small percentage of the electorate as the nation's deciding political force.

The author and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother, and poignant family losses.

Lila Wheeler returns to her childhood home in New Hampshire to investigate the crime of passion involving her older brothers, Aaron and Jack, and Aaron's mysterious girlfriend, Suzanne, that took place there ten years earlier.

Collects Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, spanning from 1947 through 1963, in which the literary theorists and political activist discusses her early career, intellectual life in New York City, inspirations, and self-awareness.

Single woman Jane Rosenal takes to the self-help shelves in search of information on how to find and manage a love relationship, but discovers, after a few mishaps, that she must make her own rules.