Reed Gochberg's "Useful Objects"

Reed Gochberg is Assistant Director of Studies and a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, and reported the following: On page 99 of Useful Objects, we find Nathaniel Hawthorne experimenting with different outcomes for the end of his short story, “