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• Have high school literature classes retrogressed?

  
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  The verdict is in from NPR :  young people read crap.   Another story from the same source:  audiences have lost their manners .  Yes, apparently NPR is so starved for news that it now imposing its judgment on middlebrow commuters across the land:  the world is going to hell in a handbasket.  Lynn Neary’s ...
  5 days ago

• White writers writing black characters – a form of literary blackface?

  
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  White South African writers who create black characters are often challenged about the authenticity of their writing. If their main protagonist is black, this challenge intensifies, and if they write in the first person, it intensifies further. There is something particularly intimate about first-person narrative. It ...
  6 days ago

• Monday Miscellanea

  
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  This Week In London’s History Monday – 10th June 2000 : The Millennium Footbridge opens, spanning the Thames between Bankside and the City. It would initially suffer from ‘synchronous lateral excitation’ (a.k.a. wobbliness), necessitating its closure and the fitting of dampers. Tuesday – 11th June ...
  1 week ago

• Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books that Feature Travel

  
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  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is top ten books that feature travel in some way. OK, wide open, so here is my list.   So many great books feature quests or voyages. These are my favorites. You could argue that all the Harry Potter books feature travel, but the trio ...
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• “Hawthorne and His Mosses” — Herman Melville

  
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  “Hawthorne and His Mosses” by Herman Melville A papered chamber in a fine old farm-house–a mile from any other dwelling, and dipped to the eaves in foliage–surrounded by mountains, old woods, and Indian ponds,–this, surely is the place to write of Hawthorne. Some charm is in this northern air, for love and ...
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• ‘After Earth’ isn’t terrible

  
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  Will Smith is a nerd. The mostly invincible entertainment warrior dreamed up the story for the M. Night Shyamalan -directed “After Earth” and used his reputation to fund the whole ordeal. This is why the film stars Smith’s son, Jaden ; and why it plays out like an episode of “Captain Planet” in terms of ...
  2 weeks ago

• felucca

  
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  In my well-worn copy of The Book of Old Ships, by Henry B. Culver, beautifully illustrated by Gordon Grant (Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, NY © 1935), it says this name may have come from the generic Turkish word “fulk,” meaning a ship.  The Catalan felouques had “masts inclined well forward, and had ...
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• Binge-reading: Book Lists to Devour

  
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  Whether you think of it this way or not, you’ve probably been binge-reading all your life. My first big foray into binge-reading was a series called The Saddle Club, about three girls having crazy horse-related adventures in their small town in Virginia. I couldn’t get enough of them! And in fact, I read little ...
  4 weeks ago

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