Winesburg, Ohio
Americannoun
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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
And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious.
From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Sherwood Anderson
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