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Our Romance . . . with London [by Stacey Harwood]
We returned from London last night, exhausted but exhilarated after David's successful lecture and readings. He started at London's popular Jewish Book Week with a "conversation with musical illustrations" during which he was interviewed…
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Who is Amy Bishop [by Catharine R. Stimpson]
February 28, 2010– The figure of Amy Bishop haunts me. I fantasize covering her trial when it happens. “Who is she?” asked a graduate student and a law student earlier this week. The…
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Googling Bei Dao by John Lane
In January I traveled to China for a little over two weeks. I stayed mostly in Shanghai, studying “Tradition & Modernity” with 18 of my Wofford College colleagues. Our lodging was comfortable, a modern…
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The Once and Future Michael O’Keefe (Terence Winch)
I thought I first met Michael O'Keefe in the late '70s at the Dubliner pub on Capitol Hill in DC, where for many years my group, Celtic Thunder, was the house band. In my…
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Post-Indusrial Meadow Mouse by John Lane
Chuck the Biologist had placed fifteen aluminum Sherman traps all over the old Glendale cotton mill site, Wofford College's outdoor classroom, a post-industrial landscape of granite rubble, twisted rebar, scorched bricks, and rusted bolts.…
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Poetry Among the Antiquarians by John Lane
Today at the South Carolina Book Festival I decided to descend the antiquarian alley where poetry books live extended lives alongside their more popular cousins in prose. As I walked under the antiquarian…
