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5 celebrations of summer from American writers

Check out these five literary celebrations of the sunny season.

4. 'July,' by Rick Bass in 'The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana'

"Every month has its flavor, as would any certain spice 鈥 tarragon, marjoram, fennel, cumin. I am not sure what the taste of July is, but I think it is something sweet, like a dessert that you might eat slowly, after the full and complex and dramatic onrushing meal of June, and before the next-days of August. I think that July is also like one of the very best fieldstones we find occasionally for use in the rock walls we like to build (rock walls that serve no purpose but instead travel only as if of their own accord off into woods, tracing some line of contour that is pleasing to the eye).鈥

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