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Surprisingly Literate
Can you judge a person by his or her reading habits? Apparently not.
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Running in Circles
Dissecting the implications of French and American Literature and mentality.
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Writer/Attention-Seeker
Exploring the author-reader relationship; Is it acceptable to want some recognition?
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The Contamination of Mr. Darcy
Cognizant of the danger upon which I place myself in asserting the following declaration, I will nonetheless state it: I cannot stand Colin Firth. For those of you who dwell …
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Translations Under a Mango Tree
I first read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the novel’s original Spanish. Marquez’s rhetoric transported me into a world that I didn’t suspect I would ever …
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All Quiet on the Written Front
“I Was a Teenage Illiterate,” is the title of the New York Times article by Cathleen Shine my father emailed me earlier this week. “Seriously, Dad?” was my initial reaction …
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Take That, Sherlock
Yesterday I was officially initiated into the society of the Baker Street Irregulars. It wasn’t actually an official induction—I would probably have to be in London for that to occur, …
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Poetry Pique
You know how there’s always this one person or event, or this one incident that once you’ve encountered, you are never able to liberate yourself from? This thing, person, or …
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Working Against the Literary Stereotype
On a recent episode of the popular television show “How I Met Your Mother,” the protagonist, Ted Mosby, laments on the perils of the dating life. He says, “When you …
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Allusions in a Spinach Dip?
My life is boring. There is no other way to spin it. I almost never go to bed after 10PM and I like to wake up at 6AM to watch …
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Analyze That
Thus far in my blogging career, with one post under my technological belt, I have discovered that blogging is quite a therapeutic activity. Ironically, the manner in which my catharsis …
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Confessions of a Slow Reader
I am an English major. I am also a particularly slow reader. If you consider these two statements somewhat contradictory, you are certainly not the only one. The first time …
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