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Tag Archives: American Literature
Partners — Brexit 1776, Hamilton (the musical)
A slow recovery from pneumonia is more pleasant if you take a good book from your library and play some music — I’ve been listening to Hamilton (the original cast recording) and reading along in Hamilton—The Revolution. Two hours of glorious, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Music, Theater
Tagged 1776, American Literature, Brexit, Hamilton, Hip Hop/Rap, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Admiration — Libraries and Antiquarians
Admiration: I like a big sprawling library with open stacks, and Green Library is one of my favorites. Thousands and thousands of books on shelves to pull out and browse. There is a light on in the stacks; maybe someone is browsing. … Continue reading
Posted in Classics, Poetry, Translation
Tagged American Literature, postaweek, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Donna Tartt — The Goldfinch Unchained
The Goldfinch is a very small oil painting of a finch chained to its perch that is on display in a museum in the Netherlands. It was painted 300 years ago by a student of Rembrandt and is very famous. … Continue reading
Posted in eBook, Fiction
Tagged American Literature, Donna Tartt, Mauritshuis museum, Netherlands, postaweek, The Goldfinch
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Zero To Hero — Donna Tartt spins a murder tale in Vermont
Murdered—Bunny is dead. He’s lying there at the foot of Mt. Cataract buried by a fateful April snow: “He’d been dead for ten days before they found him, you know. It was one of the biggest manhunts in Vermont history— … Continue reading
Posted in Crime novel, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry
Tagged A. E. Housman, American Literature, Bennington College, Donna Tartt, Hampden College, postaweek, The Secret History, Vermont
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Jonah — Biblical Story Made Modern
Today, the gleaming towers of Las Vegas have eclipsed the great American desert of southern Nevada. Author Joshua Max Feldman remembers an older, more primitive time in the epigraph of his novel The Book of Jonah: —and Jonah saw in … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Poetry
Tagged American Literature, Jonah, Joshua Max Feldman, Judith, Las Vegas, postaweek, The Old Testament
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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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Elmore Leonard– The Old West of Lawmen and Outlaws
Elmore Leonard wrote about the old west–Arizona Territory, 1860. His early short stories were about the Apache, cowboys, sheriff deputies, stage-coach drivers and, of course, gun-toting outlaws. In 1953, Leonard was working as an advertising copywriter when he published “Three-Ten … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Movie
Tagged American Literature, Elmore Leonard, postaweek, Western
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