I said yesterday that Edith Wharton must have been depressed and I want to provide an example. If you think you will ever, at any time, pick up...
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There’s a controversy raging in the literary world (the only kind of conflict I don’t avoid) about how dark and foul Young...
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This morning, I remembered the time in my reading life when I frequently read words I had never heard spoken. This led to a lot of early...
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Brad and I share many hobbies with 80-year-olds. We play Scrabble, enjoy the occasional NOVA episode, and we read books out loud. To...
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“For we are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. “How he’s grown!” we exclaim, “How...
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On “the infantile beginnings of small indulgences and small resentments”: “Against all such pretty infants (the dears...
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