Tag: arts
member name: Becky Powell
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March 31, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Naomi slid out of bed so she could shower first, before Jack could make the bathroom steamy and damp. Getting out of the shower, she realized she'd forgotten her robe. She carefully . . .
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April 08, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
She put her last eight cigarettes beside a clean ashtray. After the last eight, she'd quit. It was too little, too late, but still. First cigarette to calm her nerves. . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:02 AM EST --
You were a stranger three doors down
A skeleton with yellow onion skin
A used-up smoker's heart.
Twice each day you walked past my house.
First downhill, with eyes cast down . . .
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April 29, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. ~Jill Ruckelshaus
Feminist criticism focuses on assumptions about gender in literature and how these assumptions . . .
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April 29, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Looking back at the pivotal moments in our lives, it's hard not to wonder what might have happened if we'd taken a different fork in the road. In her new book, The End of an Error . . .
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March 31, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Last night I said farewell to old friends. I left them where they were and walked down the dirt road that led through town. I passed through the heavy gates that protected the . . .
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February 25, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
One goal I set for my son in reading this year was to try kinds of reading he had not tried before. He reads almost exclusively graphic novels. When I first heard the term "graphic novel," . . .
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March 18, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Study Notes #1
"Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
--Virginia . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
Putting it in Context
Imagine your editor asks you to write a literary critique of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. What factors would shape how you analyze the book? . . .
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January 18, 2008 10:12 AM EST --
I love living in Music City?aka Nashville. Music is a part of everything here where real art and real life bump . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
I'm changing things up a bit at Book Talk. I realized that my attempts to get reading discussions rolling over the last few weeks have been pretty lame. I've gotten some nice . . .
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April 07, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
Long ago in a faraway desert, a man of whom we know nothing decided that the words he had scratched onto clay were not conventional accounting signs numbering legal decrees or heads of cattle, . . .
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