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An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald

December 2, 2019

Sometimes you need a foreigner or someone who feels himself to be an outsider, someone who takes nothing for granted, to see

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From Global Village to Global Membrane

July 1, 2019

We have made our tools, as Marshall McLuhan said years ago, and our tools have remade us.

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Shawna Lemay’s Asking

April 1, 2019

She moves for the most part in sentences, but sentences concentrated and distilled—“music at the heart of thinking” in Fred Wah’s arresting

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Dancing with Thomas Merton

November 2, 2018

Is there a part of me that wanted to be a monk? Maybe.

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Discovering a New Writer – Roberto Bolaño

June 11, 2018

"He wrote, read, and watched television. That was essentially all he did." – Bolaño’s Spanish publisher, Jorge Herralde.

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Emily Dickinson at War

November 1, 2017

If Walt Whitman is the father of American poetry, then Emily Dickinson is surely its mother. The influence of both is incalculable...

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Glenn Gould as a model of how to get your work done

October 8, 2017

…the fabulous terror of not knowing before/one begins. Again. Kate Braid, The Goldberg Variations (19891), in A Well-Mannered Storm Start something big

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An Education in Education – A Comparison of Systems Between Canada and the U.S.

May 2, 2014

Despite the problems facing public education, it carries on.

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For Conventions and Short-Term Gain, “Cleveland Rocks!”

March 20, 2014

...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

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An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald

From Global Village to Global Membrane

Shawna Lemay’s Asking

Dancing with Thomas Merton

Discovering a New Writer – Roberto Bolaño

Emily Dickinson at War

Glenn Gould as a model of how to get your work done

An Education in Education – A Comparison of Systems Between Canada and the U.S.

For Conventions and Short-Term Gain, “Cleveland Rocks!”

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