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Winesburg, Ohio

American  
[wahynz-burg] / ˈwaɪnz bɜrg /

noun

  1. a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.


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As in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, those who don’t leave a small town can find themselves enmeshed in a web of regrets.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2019

It's a microcosm and a metaphor, a backdrop burg like Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," or "SCTV's" Melonville.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2019

Case Farms was founded in 1986, when Tom Shelton, a longtime poultry executive, bought a family-owned operation called Case Egg & Poultry, whose plant was in Winesburg, Ohio.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

When I lived in the flat expanses of the American midwest I would drive through mile after mile of cornfields, a landscape that always made me think of Sherwood Anderson and his collection Winesburg, Ohio.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2013

Winesburg, Ohio registers the losses inescapable to life, and it does so with a deep fraternal sadness, a sympathy casting a mild glow over the entire book.

From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Anderson, Sherwood

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