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Feb012011

Birthday Blips: James Joyce

AuthorPeetieWheatstraw | DateTuesday, February 1, 2011 at 11:34PM | Comment3 Comments

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James Joyce made music with the written word.

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May132010

Making It Really New: The Next Step in Theater and Arts

AuthorJames Dugan | DateThursday, May 13, 2010 at 9:55PM | Comment2 Comments

Updated on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 9:44PM by Registered CommenterNick Carraway

This brings me to my quests: First, are we beyond postmodern work and on to something new in arts and literature; second, what books would you like to have read to you from start to finish in one setting?

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Feb112010

Yet Another Salinger Postmortem

AuthorMartin Roche | DateThursday, February 11, 2010 at 1:49PM | Comment5 Comments

As a reader, my interests go places that my adolescent self would have found “boring” (that all-encompassing word). As a teenager, the focus of my reading was almost exclusively JD Salinger. I was a defensive, fearful, mistrustful, dogmatic and sheltered young man from an idyllic little town, so it makes sense. Though still fearful and defensive, I’m more broad-minded. When I was in an English graduate program, I regarded Salinger the way one comes to disregard a younger self - as embarrassingly naive. Dragons live forever, not so little boys. Like Puff, Salinger stopped being magical.

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