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This morning we peed in a Bob Evans; this evening we read serious literature in a university library. (Shanna Compton)
Ed note: This is the first installment of the bloof books' road trip blog. Check back often for updates. Details here. Last night Muncie, Indiana; tonight, Nashville, TN.– sdh We've come a long way, baby.…
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Eliot’s Message in a Bottle (by David Yezzi)
My squib today is about the epigraph to The Waste Land, which I had forgotten refers to the Sybil of Cumae, about whom more below. I’ve read the epigraph (and its translation) many times…
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Death & the Economy of Attention: Tribute to Barbara Brackney- Jason Schneiderman
The morning that August Wilson died, I was teaching Joe Turner’s Come and Gone to undergraduates. None of my students had heard about Wilson’s death, and when I mentioned it to them, I…
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On the Road with Bloof Books’ Shanna Compton, Peter Davis, and Jennifer Knox
Follow along here as bloof books Shanna Compton, Peter Davis, and Jennifer Knox burn up the blacktop on their historic book tour. First stop, tonight, in Muncie, Indiana. Be there! But if you can't,…
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Why We Read Mysteries (by Larry Epstein)
What's interesting about a killer orangutan and a purloined letter? Or about the endlessly fascinating literature that grew from Edgar Allan Poe's valiant effort to push back against the madness trying to create an…
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“Rotten Luck” [by John Tranter]
(After Baudelaire) To put up with a career as pointless as this,it takes the courage of a gambler.Okay, someone has to do it, butlike they say: vita brevis, ars longa.The grave I look for…
