Melanie Rehak

Melanie Rehak is the author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. She is at work on a book about the pleasures and politics of feeding a family in the twenty-first century, to be published in 2009, and a book of poems called Autobiography: New York.

Currently

  • The Light Stuff

    April 22, 2008

    The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?

2006

  • A View From the Bridge

    December 14, 2006 Subscribe

    Hart Crane, one of America's greatest poets, relished the extremes that eventually destroyed him.

  • Dr. Fun

    January 4, 2006

    Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence, and displayed his infectious awe of the universe in enchanting verse.

2004

2003

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