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Nathaniel Hawthorne (I)

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:59:04 +0000

Featuring discussions of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories; American romance; allegory; dream-visions; Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene; and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (I)

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:42:30 +0000

Featuring discussions of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the Fugtive Slave Law; sentimental fiction; anti-slavery narratives; and domestic slavery.

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Teen Writers: Vlog 23

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:45:13 +0000

We welcome Lindsay M. Rockstar back to the top of the ladder. Right from the start, Lindsay goes to the heart in her second submission. Learn from Lindsay’s example. Dive into yourself and find what you MUST write about. ROCKSTAR RESPONSE: Do you find yourself afraid of writing about anything too personal, or is it easy for you? Have you ever sat down to the write the HARDEST thing you could ever write?

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Moby-Dick (I)

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:52:33 +0000

Featuring discussions of New York and cosmopolitanism; paralipsis; exempla; synecdoche and metonomy; Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism; Michel Foucault; humanism; and the opening chapter of Moby-Dick.

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From the Beaches of Hawaii to the Handy Writers Colony Part 8

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:24 +0000

Jon & Barbara Shirota are guest speakers at the James Jones Symposium at Eastern Illinois University. They talk about about their World War II experiences in an American internment camp.

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Authors@Google: Eddie Sarfaty

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:59:07 +0000

The Authors@Google program welcomed comedian and author Eddie Sarfaty to Google’s New York office to discuss his book, “Mental: Funny in the Head”. “Eddie Sarfaty’s astute and acerbic stand-up effortlessly captures the everyday absurdities of life, blending self-deprecation and sarcasm with a razor-sharp instinct for the ridiculous. In Mental, he expands his hilarious insights into a collection of autobiographical essays that explore career lows, cheapskate exes, the wonder and hell of family, psychopathic felines, and so much more… Whether recounting a family trip to Paris, where his ailing father shouts obscenities at the Mona Lisa, or discovering his mother surfing JewHunt.net in search of a mahjong à trois, Eddie excels at bitingly, but lovingly, mocking his family. Spotlighting his own misadventures with equal relish, Eddie recounts his darkly funny experience stage managing an ill-fated Portuguese production of The Phantom of the Opera, reveals taking Ecstasy before lunch with Hillary Clinton, and recalls a one-night stand whose fondness for balloon animals would have animal activists up in arms.” This event took place on September 2, 2009.

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