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Spring 2005 • Vol. XXVII No. 2 • Nonfiction |

One Reader’s Digest: Toward a Gastronomic Theory of Literature

By Brad Kessler

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Brad Kessler is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest book is Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding and the Art of Making Cheese. Birds in Fall was published in 2007, and won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize that same year.

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