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From the Flats in West L.A. to the suburbs of Chicago and Boston, any block with smallish homes near desirable workplaces, good schools and popular stores and entertainment is red meat for carnivorous builders. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in a 2002 report documented more than 200 historically significant communities in 20 states where teardowns were prevalent. In the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, the report said, an astonishing 1,200 homes (20% of the supply) had been demolished since 1986. The trend has intensified since then. Nationally, as many as 75,000 of the single-family houses built last...
Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...
...those terms. There are the dreadfully poor and the obscenely wealthy, to be sure. But color, or race, is less and less the deciding factor. There are also the people in between, and there are plenty of us. I live very happily in an ordinary middle-class suburb. I am white; all my neighbors are dark-skinned. They drive better cars than I do. We all have walls and dogs and alarms. We don't live in paradise and never will, but we're all journeying to meet each other, and it's a challenging, rewarding, puzzling voyage of discovery...
Hubbard was born on September 4, 1958, in Orlando, Fla. Raised in the nearby suburb of Apopka, he attended public school there and matriculated...
...Kumin and Sexton first met in 1957, when the two women—both of whom were housewives in the same suburb, Newton—enrolled in a poetry writing workshop at the Boston Center for Adult Education. Kumin says that she was initially “a little wary” of Sexton, who came to the workshop in high heels, with pancake makeup on her face and flowers in her hair. And according to Kumin, the wariness was mutual: “She [Sexton] said ‘Maxine Kumin was the frump of frumps...