He read widely and well and his restless mind never stopped ranging far afield. One fall day I innocently asked him what he had read that summer at his coast cabin.“The complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald; Messer Marco Polo by Donn Byrne; a history of Oregon coastal trails; Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky; a history of the Tillamook Burn; and something by Stewart Holbrook that wasn’t all that great, I’m sorry to say, for I like Holbrook, a terrific storyteller.”
Brian Doyle, “A
Sturdy Man: Notes on a Human Symphony,” American
Scholar, v.74 n.1, Winter 2005, at 94, 97 (profile of Bob Boehmer).
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