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About the Author
BRAD GOOCH is a poet, novelist, and biographer whose previous ten books
include Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, which was a National Book
Critics Circle Award finalist, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and
New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara;
Godtalk: Travels in Spriritual America; and the memoir Smash Cut. The
recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim
Fellowships, he earned his PhD at Columbia University and is a professor of
English at William Paterson University. He lives in New York City.
ONE Friday morning, I wandered, nearly alone, through the Grand Bazaar, in
Aleppo, Syria. Most of the shops in the usually frenetic indoor market—a warren
of dank crosshatching passageways, lined by fluorescent-lit counters piled high
with figs, pistachios, djellabas, even toy trucks and cleaning products—were
closing for noonday services. I could already see clumps of men depositing their
scuffed shoes outside the Umayyad Mosque, its stately courtyard with old square
brick minaret, tilted slightly to the right, visible through a pointed archway
admitting a shaft of warm sunlight. It was nearly the beginning of springtime,
March 18, 2011, and by day’s end, unanticipated by me, as well as a surprise to
most of the world, a Syrian civil uprising would erupt that within a few years
would destroy much of this medieval bazaar and the historic mosque thriving
nearby....
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