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On Reading Annie Ernaux’s "The Years" in Paris
“It will be a slippery narrative composed in an unremitting continuous tense, absolute, devouring the present as it goes, all the way to the final image…
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Jennifer Sears
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Brooklyn Sightings: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Last week, my undergraduate creative writing class discussed Gabriel García Márquez’s "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” We explored the basics…
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On Reading George Gissing’s "New Grub Street" beside the Acropolis
Too much “there” there.....
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Reading Notes from Woolf’s "To the Lighthouse” and a Resource List from APStogether
“But looking together united them....” TTL, Ch. 2
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On Reading "To the Lighthouse" beside the Ionian Sea
“I am making up To the Lighthouse—the sea is to be heard all through it.”
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Anne Carson, Eros, and “Another Bride in Porto"
“When I desire you a part of me is gone...."
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“Women Talking” and “A Mennonite Speaks Out” on Mary Gaitskill’s Out of It
Because I’ve had quite a number of new subscribers these past couple of weeks, I wanted to repost my earlier writing on Women Talking on Mary…
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Thoughts on “The End"
of the English major, that is.....
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Gertrude Stein’s Three Picassos
"Every one was forced by the war which made them understand that things had changed to other things and that they had not stayed the same things, they…
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Rachel Kushner’s “A King Alone"
“...sincerity can be delivered in a container of camp..."
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