John Rember, Author . Pantheon $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-42207-2
After nearly 30 years away, Rember, a Harvard-educated English professor at Idaho's Albertson College and holder of various odd jobs, returns to his backwoods roots in Stanley, Idaho. The hardscrabble wilderness of his youth has seen major...
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John Rember, Dream of Things (dreamofthings.com), $16.95 trade paper (254p) ISBN 978-0-9825794-2-8
Drawing on Gilgamesh, the Book of Job, the myth of Orpheus, his own life, and the lives of Ezra Pound and Jack Henry Abbott, with a little James Hillman thrown in, Rember (Traplines) argues that the only reason to write is to tell the truth about...
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John Rember. Univ. of New Mexico, $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8263-6136-3
Novelist Rember (Sudden Death, Over Time) meditates on finding hope in the face of ecological catastrophe in this thoughtful collection. Organizing his thoughts into 10 chapters consisting of 10 short sections each, he advises preserving one’s sense
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