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Kate Daniels, Guest Blogger June 4-11
This week we welcome Kate Daniels as our guest blogger. Kate is the author of four books of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria’s Secret, her most recent, and the editor of Muriel Rukeyser’s…
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A Scary Prediction — China: Better Dead than Red? [by DL]
Back in January 2008, when the media was fixated in Iowa, I predicted that Barack Obama would win the presidency and be re-elected. Stacey can confirm this prediction. Scarcely infallible, I picked Kerry to…
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Thinking of PVT Huy Robert Horowitz on the Anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1944)
My father landed on Omaha Beach and went on to fight in the Battle of the Bulge. Here he is in boot camp. — sdh
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If You Build It (& Provide Full Funding), They Will Come – and Write! by Kate Daniels
Anyone who knows anything about the literary history of Vanderbilt University where I teach – birthplace of the Fugitive Poets (Warren, Tate, Ransom), and mid-20th century English Department of choice for writers like Randall…
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Quote of the day: On the Transit of Venus
"Venus will look like a dark pea drifting across a bowl of carrot soup." Robert Siegel, Senior Host NPR's All Things Considered, June 5, 2012
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“Classics Illustrated” Makes a Comeback [by DL]
<<<The Classics Illustrated Comics Project — Five Cartoonists For our first-ever comics post, At Length asked five cartoonists to consider adaptation. We wrote: If you were hired by Classics Illustrated and told to choose…
