In "Criminals," there is a novel within the novel, a book called "The Dark Forest," written by one of the characters.
In a 1908 letter to Olmsted, who was then investigating the best of town planning in Europe, de Forest wrote, "I believe there's money in taste".
The Jaimini Bhārata and the many versions of Rāmāyaṇa episodes (especially Sītā's abandonment in the forest) written by the distinguished Śaiva epic poet Lakṣĩīśa are known for their melodious verses and moving scenes.
A survivor, Sheila Garberman of Maple Shade, N.J., provided the details for an 80-page children's novel, "Escape to the Forest," written by Ruth Yaffe Radin and published in March by HarperCollins Juvenile Books.
"I opened the window from surprise — there was such heat coming in, as if it were summer in the yard, and then I watched as the flash flew by and turned into a dot somewhere over the forest," wrote Darya Frenn, a blogger.
Among the post-Shakespearean works will be "Wrecks," written by Neil LaBute and starring Ed Harris; "The Singing Forest," written by Craig Lucas and directed by Bartlett Sher; and Suzan-Lori Parks's "365 Days/365 Plays," a series of plays written on a one-a-day basis for a year.
"We aim to repeal this ordinance before it goes into effect to provide for the privacy and protection of the women and children of our state," Moore and Forest write in a statement.
So an acre of American farmland would need to be replaced by more than an acre of, say, South American grassland or forest, write the authors.
He visited his forest frequently, writing elaborate field notes by hand that sometimes transcended cicadas.
"On the nights of a new moon, a spell was cast on the forest," she writes.
