Volume 44, Number 8 · May 15, 1997
This New House
By Witold Rybczynski
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
by Michael Pollan
Random House, 320 pp., $24.00
I seldom watch instructional television. Listening to someone pedantically explain landscape painting, or watching an earnest woodworker cobble together a Colonial-style night table, has never caught my fancy. Still, whenever I come across a show on 'home improvement' I must admit I usually end up watching.
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