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Reading In Public

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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It's been too long since we've shared with you the pulse of the people. It's a little segment we like to call Reading In Public! Here's how it works:...

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Why Is Emma Bovary So Misunderstood?

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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The author of minimalist short stories, Davis would seem an unlikely match for Flaubert, with his love of metaphor and obsession with detail. In compa...

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Barbara Probst Solomon

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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