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Emerson and the American Scholar Part 2

383inc wrote 1 month ago: This is another homework post on Emerson (actually two homeworks since I missed one) about the secon … more →

Tags: Literature, Culture, American Literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do these books have future readers?

The Longest Chapter wrote 1 month ago: The feature story in the Autumn 2009 issue of The American Scholar brings to the forefront another g … more →

Tags: Classics, William M. Chace, the decline of college English departments, "The Heart of Midlothian

On the internet: October 30, 2009

electricmud wrote 2 months ago: RIP Maryanne Amacher Excellent piece in the Boston Phoenix on Boston Noir, and the city’s trou … more →

Tags: Art, Books, film, Music, Arnaud Desplechin, Boston Phoenix, dave kehr, Dennis Lim, f. scott fitzgerald

I Get All the News I Need on the Weather Report

bellakagan wrote 3 months ago: 9/22/09 I Get All the News I Need on the Weather Report Joel Porte’s writing quite possibly could be … more →

Tags: AP Language : Selected American Authors, integrated Quotations, Joel Porte, the problem with historians

Behind the writing scenes

Lisa Pampuch wrote 9 months ago: William Zinnser, the author of On Writing Well, tells The American Scholar magazine how the book and … more →

Tags: Caught My Eye, writing, Editing, On Writing Well, William Zinnser

National Magazine Award finalists announced

ranyachantal wrote 9 months ago: The NMA’s list of finalists is out.  The NMA’s always confuse me a bit, but there are a … more →

Tags: National Magazine Award Finalists 2009, Triple Canopy, Jim Shepard, Charles Baxter

Wednesday: Annotated Biblio-blography

phdmamas wrote 1 year ago: Rebecca Walker posts an evaluative survey of the “Kinder Moments in a (Dirty) Erratic Campaign … more →

Tags: Annotated Biblio-blography, Current Events, Sarah Palin, theroot.com, Rebecca Walker, CNN, Science Daily, Homer, ILLiad

Re: 'Black Americans Need a New Story'

mmasooga wrote 1 year ago: This summer’s edition of The American Scholar published an article by Charles Johnson – titled … more →

Tags: Letters from Hackney, Charles Johnson, Black American Narrative, Discourse, level of consciousness

Avidity for Pattern

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: Art is a form of cognitive play with pattern. Just as communication exists in many species, even in … more →

Tags: ART-making, art+science, Stephen Jay Gould, art and pattern making, Brian Boyd


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