Spinning Off “The Great Gatsby”: When a Great American Novel Goes Into the Public Domain
What are we going to make of The Great Gatsby now that it has gone into the public domain?
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Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”: What does being “true to yourself” actually mean?
Why I Read Fun Home Fun Home is a book that I have studiously avoided reading for a long time because I thought it was somehow about perversion and abuse, and I have read my fair share of memoirs about that topic. You get to a point in life, or at least I …
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Helping Your Parents Age Well is Hard. Why “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”
Why I read Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant To be perfectly honest, I read this book because it’s one of the very few graphic novels listed in James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read BeforeYou Die. I don’t know if this book would have jumped out at me without that. And honestly, reading …
Step back in time to “This One Summer” with the Tamaki Cousins
Do you remember how every childhood summer was the same, until it was different?
“Goodbye My Havana”: Memoir of a “gringa” in Cuba.
Why I Read Goodbye My Havana I ran across this book in the New Books section at one of my libraries…just another example of why it always pays to browse a bit. What caught my attention is that it’s set in Cuba…you just don’t see that much of anything coming from Cuba…who can admit to …
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