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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Doris Lessing: Reluctant Feminist
Posted on the web: “Goodbye to Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook wouldn’t be the same without you.” The posting by the Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock included a link to the obituary published by the N.Y. Times: Doris Lessing, the … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction
Tagged Doris Lessing, Nobel Lecture, postaweek, The Golden Notebook, Working Women
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Judy Blunt–Leaving Home, Braking Clean
Breaking clean is never easy. Memoirist and poet Judy Blunt described it this way: I left Phillips County with a new divorce and an old car, with three scared kids and some clothes piled in back. We followed the sun … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Poetry
Tagged American Literature, Judy Blunt, Montana, NaBloPoMo, Phillips County, postaweek, University of Montana
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Anne Carson: The Return of Geryon
Once upon a time in Erytheia, an island off the west coast of what we now call Spain, there lived a monster who had a valuable herd of red cattle. The monster was called Geryon by the ancient Greek poets: … Continue reading
Posted in Classics, Poetry
Tagged Anne Carson, Geryon, Herakles, NaBloPoMo, postaweek, Stanford
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