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• ‘The Story of the Other Wise Man’ — Henry Van Dyke’s Christmas Classic

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 121
  A parable about the meaning of faith that first appeared in 1896 The Story of the Other Wise Man. By Henry Van Dyke. Enthea, 128 pp., $10.99, paperback. Available in other editions, including abridged picture-book versions for children. By Janice Harayda What is the meaning of faith? Does it involve saying ...
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• [249] A Visitation of Spirits – Randall Kenan

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 122
  It was then that he would realize that he was different and vulnerable and that the simple joy of being in love and expressing it with straightforward passion was denied him, and he would retreat into an indigo funk. [153] Horace Cross is smart and nerdy; but the 16-year-old is tired of his suffocating life. He ...
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• My Antonia by Willa Cather

  
  Rebecca Reads — Authority: 416
  I loved My Antonia by Willa Cather when I read it in high school, and when I went to pick it up, I had some dim memories of characters and setting. I recalled that it was about rural Nebraska. It was about a boy and a girl. They lived on farms and played together. It was very cold in the winter. Life was tragic ...
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• Run.

  
  The dish — Authority: 417
  My analysis of the Halladay/Lee series of deals is up on ESPN.com . I’ll be on Sirius 210/XM 175 at 8:35 pm EST tonight. – Ann Patchett’s Run , the long-awaited followup to her masterpiece, Bel Canto , is, like its predecessor, a beautifully written and sensitive book, one that moves quickly despite ...
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• A Time to Be Born.

  
  The dish — Authority: 417
  Dawn Powell was a commercial failure as a novelist during her lifetime, despite accolades from her peers, including Ernest Hemingway, who called her his favorite living novelist. In fact, according to the Library of America, At Dawn Powell’s death in 1965, nearly all of her books were out of print. Surveys of ...
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  The Frugal Chariot — Authority: 122
  Alternative RealityOne had to blame the Germans for the situation. Tendency to bite off more than they could chew. After all, they had barely managed to win the war, and at once they had gone off to conquer the solar system, while at home they had passed edicts which . . .- The Man in the High Castle, p. 24 ...
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• [248] Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 122
  “I was in terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought, but I am happy. And he loves me. Sometimes, when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him touch me again. Then, when he touched me, I thought, it doesn’t matter, it is only the body, ...
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• What matters? Two very different responses

  
  Blog Meridian — Authority: 103
  Im still reading and grading papers (I have needy students this semester, about which more later), but I wanted to pass along links to a couple of things before I forget to later on.First of all: Its December 12, the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. This is a day when I am especially ...
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• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

  
  ANZ LitLovers LitBlog — Authority: 122
  The truth is not what it was when I was a little girl. That was a truth akin to that of court witnesses who swore to ‘tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ . I would not be telling the truth if I were to write that it wasn’t just children who had this straightforward view of the truth , ...
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• My Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance

  
  Rebecca Reads — Authority: 416
  In preparation for the upcoming (February) Harlem Renaissance Classics Circuit, I’ve been reading a lot of introductory material to prepare for the introductory information we need to write for the sign up post. As I mentioned yesterday, I don’t feel like an expert in anything, so I love having The Classics ...
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• Heroes of American Literature #19

  
  If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats — Authority: 522
  Lillian Hellman [IMG: http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/Heroes%20of%20American%20Literature/lillianhellmansmokes-1.jpg]
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• [247] The World of Normal Boys – K.M. Soehnlein

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 122
  “But mostly he wants to get away from this room; more than that, he wants to slip into the swarming darkness at the back of his skull and merge as a different boy–unobtrusive, disinterested, normal. Someone not worth an argument.” [166] The World of Normal Boys is a coming of age novel even though Robin ...
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• Admit One (or Two)

  
  Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities — Authority: 112
  An assortment of tickets in Beinecke Library collections. A 1000 mile ticket on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Railway Company, 1901: An airplane ticket for Alfred Stieglitz, 1929: Admission to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia: The 1939 Golden Gate Exposition: And Buffalo ...
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  The Frugal Chariot — Authority: 122
  The Prodigal ReturnsBut the old man said, "Come here son," and he took Jacks hands and caressed them and touched them to his cheek. He said, "Its a powerful thing, family."And Jack laughed. "Yes, sir. Yes, it is. I do know that.""Well," he said, "at least youre home." (p 176)Marilynne Robinsons latest novel, Home, is ...
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• For Those Who Would Change the Wind

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 423
  Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892 Poet, Philosopher, Essayist "The future is no more uncertain than the present."
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• The carriage held but just ourselves

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 126
  OK, I admit it. I have a thing for Emily Dickinson. In her lifetime, she was like a volcanic eruption that nobody saw. And, at the risk of being a downer, I think some of her best poems were about mortality. If life is what happens when were making other plans, that is probably even more true about death. Heres one ...
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• ‘Black tulip of US literature’ expected to fetch record price at NY auction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Dec 4 (ANI): A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book “Tamerlane and Other Poems” is expected to be sold at a record price when it goes under the hammer today in New York.Christie’s, which is auctioning the book, expects to set a record price for American literature with the stained and frayed [...]
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• LISTED IN AMAZON.COM GROWING UP FILIPINO II: More Stories for Young Adults

  
  TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD — Authority: 117
  Amazon.com now lists the hardcover of Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults, click on this site: http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Filipino-II-Stories/dp/0971945829/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s;=books&qid;=1259619206&sr;=1-2> ~~~~ DISTRIBUTED BY: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, Barnes ...
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• Ghosts in the Book Shelves

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 127
  There is a kind of bi-polarity connected with writing, playing out to provide you with a stream of new ideas and receptors while you have already chosen a project and moved along its orbit.  These new ideas and receptors that bring you distracting sensations are energizing; you fill notebooks, index cards, the backs ...
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• Alice Adams.

  
  The dish — Authority: 417
  I’ll be on ESPNEWS some time between 2:30 and 3 pm EST on Monday, topics TBD. Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, making him the award’s first two-time winner as he won two of the first four given. His first award was for The Magnificent Ambersons , a much stronger ...
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