Nathaniel Purple

(Voyage/Brigantine Media) This novella is named for its narrator — Nathaniel Purple, the librarian of a small Vermont town. This book has its share of drama — betrayals, violence, and conflagrations — amid pastoral scenes and the simple pleasures enjoyed by Nathaniel. Reeve taught English and Russian at Wesleyan University for 40 years, was a founding editor of Poetry Review, and Robert Frost’s translator at his meeting with Nikita Krushchev in Russia. He lives in Wilmington, Vt.