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This intimate volume includes slices of memoir, critical essays and appreciations of other authors, among them Ross Macdonald, whose prose she finds “so elegant and rich as to drive any writer to fits of envy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Throw in the sheer tonnage of think pieces and appreciations and other navel-gazing and you’d be forgiven for asking: Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025

These are not mutually exclusive appreciations of this gown, but I brought to the discussion my research on abolitionist visual culture and read it through that lens.

From Slate • May 4, 2023

It’s the usual way of appreciations to speak of somebody in the past tense.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023

No, it doesn't turn my head; I can show you dozens of "appreciations" from greater and more famous men.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose