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Nine Classics to Read in the Winter

Posted by Kevin Donovan on January 28, 2013 · 4 Comments

Why is it we only get reading lists during the summer? With its short days and achingly cold nights, winter seems the far better season to pick over neglected bookshelves. But I don’t like to read just any book in the winter. Breezy romances set in SoCal climes? Ech. (Well, for me that kind of … Continue reading →

Filed under Off topic · Tagged with Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, Emily Bronte, Ficciones, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Jorge Luis Borges, Native Son, New York Times, Paradise Lost, Reading list, Richard Wright, Robert B. Strassler, The Landmark Thucydides, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Recognitions, Ursula K. Le Guin, Walden, Western Canon, William Gaddis, Wuthering Heights

Babbitt Shrugged: How Sinclair Lewis Skewers Ayn Rand

Posted by Kevin Donovan on January 18, 2013 · 1 Comment

Who’s afraid of Ayn Rand? The philosopher queen-cum-fantasy novelist has been exhaustively name checked of late. Her most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, has sold several millions copies since the election of a certain un-Randian president in 2008. Two parts of a planned Atlas Shrugged trilogy have been released in the last two years, though the free market was not … Continue reading →

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