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Scott Spencer: I Am Not Worthy

Scott Spencer: I Am Not Worthy

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John Mendelssohn
Dec 11, 2010
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Scott Spencer: I Am Not Worthy
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Thank God for NPR, province of the liberal elitists though it may be (he said ironically). If I hadn’t listened by chance to Teri Gross’s interview with Scott Spencer on my iPod during one of my early autumn constitutionals, I wouldn’t have read his latest novel, Man in the Woods, and been so awed by the beauty of his writing as to seek out all his earl…

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