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Poet Eileen Myles at the Penn Book Center
On living twice
Eileen Myles’s reading at Penn Book Center gave fans a glimpse into the writing career of one of contemporary poetry’s biggest names. Her informal, conversational manner made the crowded reading feel unexpectedly intimate, making Myles’s words all the more powerful.
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What I read on my summer vacation
From The Odyssey to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, here's what I read over the summer and how it did (or didn't) change my life.
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'For Such a Time' by Kate Breslin
Is Esther the right model for the heroine of a Christian romance novel?
The Jewish experience might be a good fit for Christian marketing, but like the real victims of the Holocaust, we may soon find ourselves absented from our own narrative.
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Godfrey Hodgson's 'JFK and LBJ'
The last two great presidents?
Was John Kennedy's popularity deserved? Or should it have gone to his successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson?
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Elijah Wald's 'Dylan Goes Electric!'
Electric Bob
Dylan made it okay to like rock ’n’ roll. He carried the intellectual endorsements to make those who’d disparaged or abandoned rock regard it anew. And he had the genius to make those still-popping fingers rethink rock’s capabilities.
Kate Bolick's 'Spinster'
The solipsistic spinster
Kate Bolick takes almost 300 pages to analyze her decision not to marry from every possible angle in Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, while remaining oblivious to her level of privilege.
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‘Mockingbird’ meets ‘Call It Sleep’
Who silenced Harper Lee?
Why would a successful writer like Harper Lee forsake her chosen craft for more than 50 years? Consider a very similar case — Henry Roth, author of the classic Call It Sleep.
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Harper Lee’s sister: Protector or warden?
Found: The real villain of the Mockingbird mystery
Why the sudden publication of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, an aged recluse who had long insisted she would never write another book? No doubt the key event was the death last year of Harper Lee’s older sister Alice. But my perspective as a family therapist suggests that Alice wasn't Harper's protector, but her oppressor.
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The Sloan Technology Series
Beach reading for the technological society
Thanks to the Sloan Foundation, anyone who enjoys reading histories and biographies can delve into the sagas behind the technologies that shape the modern world.
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'Disgruntled' and 'The Star Side of Bird Hill'
The complexities of coming-of-age
Asali Solomon and Naomi Jackson have written similar yet different coming-of-age stories about young women confronting many identities while trying to find their own.
