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Five Old Flames

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Roger Rosenblatt

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I wouldn't advise reading or rereading the following books about passion, one right after the other. Your head might pop off. But if you're looking for ways to get the old heart pumping, here are five.

About the Author

Roger Rosenblatt

Roger Rosenblatt’s essays for Time and The NewsHour on PBS have won two George Polk Awards, the Peabody, and the Emmy. He is the author of six off- Broadway plays and seventeen books, five of which have been New York Times Notable Books, including New York Times bestsellers, Making Toast, Kayak Morning, The Boy Detective and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, a primer on the art and craft of writing. Among his other bestsellers are Rules for Aging, and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has held the Briggs-Copeland appointment in the teaching of writing at Harvard, and is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University. He and his wife Ginny, a poet, live in Quogue, New York. Last November, he received the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for literary achievement.

His most recent book is the novel Thomas Murphy.