The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump
Part Three of Josh Cook’s Series on the Challenges We Face
March 21, 2025
By Josh Cook
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Josh Cook is is a bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is also author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel An Exaggerated Murder and his fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous leading literary publications. He grew up in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Somerville, MA.
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