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American Bard: Bob Dylan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Anyone who has listened to Dylan’s songs has known that they are pure poetry.
Read More »Charlie Sheen Reveals He Has HIV With Grace Under Pressure
If he can indeed help others – even save other lives – Charlie’s story has a much happier ending than anyone could have imagined for him a few days ago.
Read More »Rachel Dolezal, Caitlyn Jenner, and Ernest Hemingway – Understanding the Narrative of Self
This is the lot of celebrities and their worst nightmare – the self-narrative taken out of their own hands and spun out of control.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking’ by Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing travels America in search of the effects of alcohol on six great authors.
Read More »Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook – Romeo and Juliet On Meds
If you are expecting happy endings in life, maybe this isn’t the film for you (or maybe, just maybe, it is).
Read More »Common Core Wars: The English Teachers Strike Back
Most English teachers are letting it be known that literature is something that they teach well and wish to continue that pattern of success.
Read More »The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Sportswriter
Hemingway said only heavy lifting was harder work than writing, so let us consider sportswriting the heavy lifting.
Read More »Running of the Bulls in Pamplona – A Tradition That Keeps on Goring
What would make perfectly healthy and sane people stand in the way of a two thousand pound bull?
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