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Author: Stephen Akey

Stephen Akey is the author of the memoirs College and Library. A collection of his essays, Culture Fever, was published in January.
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08/20/2018

Randy Newman’s Land of Dreams

Exploring the musician's best album

by Stephen Akey

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04/02/2018

Singin’ in the Rain for the 68th Time

Ben Davis’s Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City

by Stephen Akey

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03/08/2018

Mother/Painter

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and her daughter

by Stephen Akey

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01/15/2018

Let Me Ruin This for You

The schadenfreude of criticism

by Stephen Akey

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09/07/2017

I, Cecil Vyse

Finding your facts with fiction

by Stephen Akey

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07/14/2017

He’s Got the Fever

. . . and the only cure is more literature

by Stephen Akey

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04/13/2017

Reading Emily Dickinson

Returning to the archives

by Stephen Akey

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03/15/2017

How To Laugh At God

Friedrich Nietzsche's comical perspective of God

by Stephen Akey

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01/26/2017

It’s the Drummer That Matters

Laurie Lindeen’s Petal Pusher

by Stephen Akey

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12/12/2016

English Majors’ Twilight

The reality and mythology of an English major

by Stephen Akey

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