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–By J.S. Porter (for Cheryl, who insisted on my seeing the Hemingway museum outside of Havana and the studio of Cézanne in
Everything in Retrospect
An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes you need a foreigner or someone who feels himself to be an outsider, someone who takes nothing for granted, to see
From Global Village to Global Membrane
We have made our tools, as Marshall McLuhan said years ago, and our tools have remade us.
Shawna Lemay’s Asking
She moves for the most part in sentences, but sentences concentrated and distilled—“music at the heart of thinking” in Fred Wah’s arresting
Dancing with Thomas Merton
Is there a part of me that wanted to be a monk? Maybe.
Discovering a New Writer – Roberto Bolaño
"He wrote, read, and watched television. That was essentially all he did." – Bolaño’s Spanish publisher, Jorge Herralde.
Emily Dickinson at War
If Walt Whitman is the father of American poetry, then Emily Dickinson is surely its mother. The influence of both is incalculable...
Glenn Gould as a model of how to get your work done
…the fabulous terror of not knowing before/one begins. Again. Kate Braid, The Goldberg Variations (19891), in A Well-Mannered Storm Start something big
An Education in Education – A Comparison of Systems Between Canada and the U.S.
Despite the problems facing public education, it carries on.
For Conventions and Short-Term Gain, “Cleveland Rocks!”
...it’s not about politics... it’s about showing off the region’s best qualities blah, blah, blah. What it’s really about is a short-term
The Dis-“Union” of College and Football
...This begs the question: why are sports more important than education in America?
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