![]() ![]() Hunt studied geology, and her fascination with the bedrock of the natural world overlaps with her elemental love of storytelling … Walter’s unfinished book is both a ghost and a springboard. This search forms the backbone of The Unwritten Book, Samantha Hunt’s first work of nonfiction, which contains a book within a book - chapters of an unpublished novel written by her late father about a secret society of people who can fly without wings … In her expansive and inventive new book, Hunt uses her father’s incomplete manuscript as a vessel to communicate with him 20 years after his death … To attempt to categorize The Unwritten Book is to diminish the effect of reading it. “The living search for signs - for answers - just as we do when we read books. ![]() ![]() Worth on Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy’s The Forever Prisoner, and Lucie Elven on the work of Anne Serre. ![]() This week’s illuminating literary criticism includes Michele Filgate on Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book, Joyce Maynard on Delia Ephron’s Left on Tenth, Lake Micah on Margo Jefferson’s Constructing a Nervous System, Robert F. ![]()
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