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Posted on May 23, 2010 by inotivity
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A writer’s mind. Thoughts on Orhan Pamuk.

Culture grants no monopolies on great writing. While Europe has grabbed the lion’s share of the Nobel Prizes in literature — over 70% since 1901, more recent winners include writers …

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Posted on May 17, 2010 by inotivity
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John Updike, Racism and The Doctor’s Wife.

Preface 18 years ago, I spent a day at a long, scuffed wooden table in the Barbados Archives.  The table was stacked with baptism records of 11 parishes – a …

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Posted on May 13, 2010 by inotivity
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Bungay Stanier and the art of Doing More Great Work.

The ghost of Albert Einstein occasionally hovers somewhere in upstate New York. Michael Bungay Stanier, the founder and senior Partner of Box of Crayons, was vacationing at a cabin that …

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Posted on May 4, 2010 by inotivity
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Surprised by the joy of Wordsworth

The very mention of the phrase “British Romantic Poetry” is bound to elicit  a collective wince. A bit of literary forensics will shed some perspective and hopefully some insight into …

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Posted on May 4, 2010 by inotivity
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A short missive on Shakespeare and Sonnet #2

Typically the purveyor of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is likely to be a dewy-eyed romantic or a reedy-looking professor of English with a corduroy sport jacket with reinforced elbows. Well, since I …

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Posted on May 2, 2010 by inotivity
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Sense and Sensibility. John Updike.

In late November 1961, a 29-year-old John Updike finished the draft of his short story, In Football Season. Since we share equally aquiline noses, this story has always been among …

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