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Redding Up — The latest of Richard Snodgrass’ Books of Furnass Series. To learn more about Redding Up click here.
Available now, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press
THE HOUSE WITH ROUND WINDOWS — A Memoir by Richard Snodgrass
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“Succinct and poignant, The House with Round Windows is a memoir that packs an emotional and visual punch as it peeps into “the Brothers Snodgrass’s” family world.”
— FOREWARD Reviews, January/February 2022
Critical Acclaim
For Richard Snodgrass’ Novels
ACROSS THE RIVER
The writing is beautiful. The complex characters, faced daily with choices between their deepest desires and their integrity, in the midst of war, make compelling reading. This book stands alone, while stoking the desire for rest of the books in the series.
— IndieReader
ACROSS THE RIVER
A vivid and intensely personal story couched within the chaos, madness and sacrifice of the Civil War.
— SPR
ACROSS THE RIVER
A beautiful historical novel that proves history is created and changed by individuals, not just events.
— IndieReader
ALL FALL DOWN
An immersive murder mystery wrapped in an emotionally astute look at the burden of a town’s moral history.
— Kirkus Reviews
ALL FALL DOWN
Snodgrass’ writing is unpretentious but poetically evocative, an ambitious attempt to combine a realistic portrayal of a gritty working-class town with literary style.
— Kirkus Reviews
SOME RISE
...An artistically daring examination of the line that separates love from fanatical possession.
— Kirkus Reviews
SOME RISE
Richard Snodgrass’ gift for characterization, plotting, and dialogue make Some Rise one of the most engaging family sagas/literary mysteries we’ve read in years.
— IndieReader Review, “IndieReader Approved”
THE BUILDING
...artistically unflinching and morally unsentimental.
— Kirkus Reviews
THE BUILDING
The pace is unhurried but inexorable, a relentless march toward a shocking conclusion.
— Kirkus Reviews
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BACK YARD
Observe this mysterious book and be changed.
— The Washington Post Book World
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BACK YARD
A haunting, seductive, original story.
— Publishers Weekly
Richard
Snodgrass
Author &
Photographer
Richard Snodgrass’s short stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, South Dakota Review, California Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is also a master photographer who has been artist-in-residence at LightWorks (University of Syracuse) and at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
In 1989, Viking published Snodgrass’s novel There’s Something in the Back Yard to critical acclaim: “Observe this mysterious book and be changed,” wrote Jack Stephens in the Washington Post Book World. Snodgrass is also the author of An Uncommon Field: The Flight 93 Temporary Memorial, published in September of 2011 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Kitchen Things: An Album of Vintage Utensils and Farm Kitchen Recipes, published in 2013 by Skyhorse and named one of the year’s “best books to get you thinking about food” by the Associated Press.
Richard Snodgrass lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Marty and two indomitable female tuxedo cats, raised from feral kittens, named Frankie and Becca.
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“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”![]()
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"The Sound and the Fury" is a novel written by William Faulkner, first published in 1929. The novel is set in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi and follows the lives of the Compson family, particularly the decline of the family's patriarch, Jason Compson III, and the disintegration of his family.![]()
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The novel is divided into four sections, each told from the perspective of a different character. The first section is narrated by Benjy, the mentally disabled son of the Compson family. The second section is narrated by Quentin, the eldest son of the family, who is tormented by memories of his sister Caddy's promiscuity. The third section is narrated by Jason, the youngest son, who is bitter and angry towards his family and the world. The final section is narrated by Dilsey, the Compsons' African American maid, who provides a different perspective on the events of the novel.![]()
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Through the use of stream-of-consciousness narration and non-linear storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of time, memory, and the disintegration of traditional Southern values. The novel is noted for its experimental style and challenging structure, which can make it difficult to follow at times. However, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of modernist literature and one of Faulkner's most significant works.![]()
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"Crow" (カラス), a ca 1910-1911 vertical ōban, by Ohara Koson (小原 古邨, 1877 - 1945), a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was part of the shin-hanga (new prints) movement.![]()
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Born in Kanazawa, Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird and flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around 500 prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson (小原 古邨).
“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”![]()
— Albert Camus