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Participation in fishing, hunting, and target shooting is declining steadily. Paint the Next Sunrise is the plan to excite and invite beginners, and turn them into active articipants. It comes complete with an organization dedicated to the plan. This book is destined to shape the national debate over the future of hunting and fishing in America. It's the brush we can use to Paint the Next Sunrise for these traditional outdoor sports. ... Read more

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A worthy read for those who miss the days of fishing and hunting with one's father
There's been a decline in traditional great outdoors activities. "Paint the Next Sunrise: A Future for Hunting and Fishing" is an encouragement for Mark Strand for readers to once again embrace the pastimes of hunting and fishing for sport, both of which have received criticism in recent years. Stating his argument of the benefits of the sports, "Pain the Next Sunrise" is a worthy read for those who miss the days of fishing and hunting with one's father.
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Called "the best literary gift to travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James" (Financial Times), City Secrets guides are charming companions to the world’s most fascinating destinations, from cities to movies, offering discoveries from internationally renowned authors, artists, and historians. Books takes this intimate, insider’s approach to literature, featuring 200 brief essays and recommendations by 150 esteemed figures in the literary world, including authors, writers, journalists, scholars, and critics. The list of contributors includes: Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize–winning author; John Guare, playwright; Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker columnist and author; poet laureates Mark Strand and Robert Pinsky; and Kenneth Turan, NPR and the Los Angeles Times film critic, among many others. Fang Duff Kahn Publishers will donate 2% of the purchase price of each book to First Book, a national organization that gives children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. It has distributed more than 65 million books to children. ... Read more

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No index of Authors?
This is yet another great volume in the City Secrets Series. Like the other reviewers, I'm thrilled with the recommendations. The books are reviewed alphabetically by title and there is a chronological index; there's even an index of contributors. But I'm amazed at the lack of Author Index. Major oversight.

Literary gems uncovered
The City Secrets series of travel guides are unique in the travel guide landscape. Rather than suggest a list of restaurants, museums, and shops to visit, they enlist chefs, art history professors, and designers to reveal their favorite places in a given city. The result is a truly wonderful compendium of off-the-beaten-path places that you'd never find on your own. The good folks at City Secrets now turn their attention to books, inviting famous writers, editors, and other literary luminaries to suggest their favorite now-forgotten titles.

Organized alphabetically by title, each entry includes a short essay on why the contributor selected the work, and these illuminating and often very personal vignettes could almost lead you to read this collection straight through, entry after entry. But it's best to peruse the titles at random, like stumbling through a completely unorganized bookstore selling only forgotten literary gems. The suggestions run the gamut: a study on the stork's mechanics of flight from 1889 is soon followed by a work by a 1940's Hungarian writer, which is later followed by a young German writer's newest novella, published in 2005. There is truly something for everyone here.

Reviewed by Margo Orlando Littell

I'm getting THIS for everyone for Christmas.
What a wonderful book.You know the whole three wishes thing, where you're smart and greedy enough to wish for all the wishes in the world.Three!Huh!Anyway, this book is like that.I've spent a lot of years reading voraciously, and now I'll have to live a whole lot longer!

Great gift idea!
This book is a huge collection of interesting recommendations for people who love to read. I'm enjoying my own copy, and I'm going to gift another copy to my brother for the holidays. What a great find!

Fabulous Find!
City Secrets Books is a fabulous find for anyone who loves to read, but is bored with the bestseller list.It is the book that will keep you reading forever (and a perfect gift for the holidays)! ... Read more

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More than a hundred wonderful and sensitive duotone portraits of our major novelists, poets, and playwrights.

Paired with the photographs are fascinating texts from each writer on writing-thoughts on the craft, recollections of significant moments from their personal history, meditations on the civic importance of writing, and so forth. Some of the photographs in this treasure trove are already well known-Bellow, Mailer, Cheever, Wolfe, Singer, and Capote, to name a few. Others have never before been published. Many were taken on location, from Tom Stoppard in London and James Baldwin in Provence to Gabríel Garcia Márquez in Mexico City-one of ten Nobel Prize winners in the book. Closer to home, we have Eudora Welty in Jackson, Nelson Algren in Chicago, Philip Roth and Maurice Sendak in rural Connecticut, Anne Sexton and John Updike near Boston, Walker Percy in Louisiana, Christopher Isherwood in Santa Monica, Annie Proulx in Wyoming, and several writers in the Hamptons. Whatever the setting, the images are strikingly fresh and authentic. The pithy and idiosyncratic thoughts on writing are a perfect complement to the superb portraits; often words and pictures seem to exist in a magical rapport. For all of us who care about the American literary scene, Nancy Crampton's intimate look at our literary heroes, our Writers, is a gift. 104 duotone photographs. ... Read more