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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/19/2021 12:05:34 PM When R.W. Bell was creating the main character for his first novel “Trace Element,” he decided to use a combination of two very important people in his life. Ethan Cross is named after his 5-year-old son and based on a projection of what Bell thinks his oldest child might be like when he gets to his mid-20s. Cross’ personality? That is a mirror image of Bell’s wife Candice, who Bell describes as someone with a “fact-based professionalism, sarcastic sense of humor, and aversion to public recognition,” and “the most b...

2 . 18 . 21 Now and then when I am absorbed in lists of forthcoming books, whether in the delicious catalogues of university presses (now likely to be digital only, alas) or in the pages of Publishers Weekly or in some other source of bookish intelligence, a strange thought pops into my head: Books will continue to appear after I am dead. (Perhaps in heaven I will receive a special dispensation. . . .) In any case, at the moment, I am still here in this fallen but nonetheless beguiling world, still (mostly) in possession of my “faculties.” There are so many books to instruct and divert u...