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Description: This website is maintained by Gail Pool, travel writer, book critic, and author of "Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork" and "Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America."
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icon caret-right instagram pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads question-circle facebook circle twitter circle linkedin circle instagram circle goodreads circle pinterest circle Gail Pool Home Works Events New Guinea Photos Blog Contact Selected Works Travel Memoir Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork "My couch is about as far away from Papua New Guinea as one can possibly get. And yet, Gail Pool made her story of the year she and her husband Jeremy spent studying the Ba
"Everyone in the field will applaud Pool's passionate insistence on the importance to literary culture of the serious, informed critique, which is increasingly endangered and in need of such vigorous support." -– Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful and thought-provoking guide to the artistry and scholarship, not to mention the agony and ecstasy that is part of good book reviewing... Pool's crisp, intelligent, and witty style moves the reader from the lonely and unrewarding depths to the lofty heights of book re
“Captivating stories in an anthology of epistolary fiction from the last 50 years...Warning: Reading these fantastic letters might make your own next trip to the mailbox seem a bore.”-– Kirkus”
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