I just finished re-reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for the first time in many years. While I've been in Mexico, I've reacquainted myself with the literature of the Gilded Age, largely because I am using the Kindle feature on my ipad for the first time...
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And by this travesty I mean the threat of Steven Spielberg directing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath, a movie I would like to think exactly 0 people would.
I found this interesting. FICTION 1. Susann, The Love Machine 2. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint 3. Puzo, The Godfather 4. Nabokov, Ada 5. Crichton, The Andromeda Strain 6. Davis, The Pretenders.
[ERIK SAYS] This podcast discusses Ari Kelman's new book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. It explores how different groups contest the historical meanings of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. We then go on to talk about the contested...
Dan Hampton, author of Viper Pilot, doesn't sound like a pleasant man. This requires qualification;.
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn't to say Dunham doesn't benefit from white privilege or shouldn't think of casting non-whites in her show, but she hardly benefits...
Must reading for all you McCarthyites out there.
This fall, I am teaching graduate students for the first time. I am teaching our senior capstone course, which graduate students can sign up for. My course in on the.
This is the third in an eight part series on this year's Patterson School Summer Reading List: Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters CJ Chivers, The Gun Anatol Lieven, Pakistan: A Hard Country Anatol Lieven's Pakistan: A Hard Country tries to change the...
When I assembled a syllabus for this semester's Airpower seminar, I noted that there appeared to be a pair of biographies of John Boyd; Grant Hammond's Mind of War, and.
I promised to say more about Corey Robin's assessment of Antonin Scalia in The Reactionary Mind, some of which is excerpted here. Before I get to that, I should say.