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The Awkward Age

Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Arkansas, The Awkward Age, Aging, Bucket List, Henry James, Bookseller, Berryville, The Balanced Life, Living News
Daniel Krotz

I'm caught between a lingering fantasy of a Roman Holiday, and the aspirations of a Care Consultant who hopes I am infirm enough to require batteries for effective locomotion. Goodness, what an awkward age!

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Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?

David Finkle | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vooks, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Piers Plowman, Reading, Truman Capote, Video Books, William Langland, George Eliot, Vivien Leigh, Henry James, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Trollope, Books News
David Finkle

It would be a sin -- practically a capital crime -- to write off masterpieces because no one has the patience for the sentences Marcel Proust had the patience to craft so scrupulously.

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Unrequited Love: Is There Ever an Upside?

Robert Fuller | Posted 11.21.2009 | Style

Read More: Court, Unrequited Love, Suitor, Love, Henry James, Yeats, Courtship, Suit, Style News
Robert Fuller

No suitor wants to admit it, but those who don't return our love often give us something as valuable as those who do.

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Hillary + Obama = High Drama

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Hillary Clinton, Obama Cabinet Picks, Henry James, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama Transition, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Hillary's appointment isn't even official, but the Obama/Clinton narrative has already left the realm of politics. Its twists, turns, shadings, and complex emotions are the stuff of literature.

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