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06/13/2022

Walking Words, Words Walking

There’s never been a better to read James Joyce’s Ulysses (don’t be scared!)

by Colin Fleming

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05/09/2022

Theft from the Author

Literary pilfering through the ages, from Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy

by Vincent Czyz

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04/12/2022

When Reading in the Dark Turns on the Light

How inscriptions brought Ireland to Indiana

by Kristin Czarnecki

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03/21/2022

May it Be So

Life in poetry

by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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03/07/2022

Clearing Out the Brain Fog

On creativity and restriction

by Anna Gordover

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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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10/28/2021

Poe Boy

The ongoing impact of Edgar Allan Poe

by Sudipto Sanyal

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10/18/2021

We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home

Living life bloom by bloom

by Charlene Langfur

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10/15/2021

Orchards for the Masses

Agriculture of past times

by Bernd Brunner

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10/07/2021

Close Encounters With Tolstoy

War and Peace through a different lens

by Rhoda Feng

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