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Genres…and More
So many choices, where to begin? For years, newspapers have been dividing bestsellers into Fiction [...]
Madelyn Pugh Davis: Girl Writer for “I Love Lucy” – Part 2
Last we left off, it was the late 1940s and Madelyn Pugh Davis and her [...]
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The Way People Write About Home
In her collection I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron includes the essay “Moving [...]
The Threat From Above
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is an exceptionally long and well-regarded novel, tackling the question of [...]
Literary Libations and Eats
As a kid reading some of my favorite books, I yearned not only the clothing [...]
Fireworks and Breezeblocks: The Music of American Writing
In November of 2010, Katy Perry’s dance-pop anthem to confidence, “Firework,” debuted on the American [...]
Why We Should All Read America is in the Heart
Carlos Bulosan's unique, compelling, shattering, and deeply moving autobiographical novel based on his experiences as [...]
Writing the American Immigrant Experience – Achy Obejas
In her story, “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like [...]
Get to Know Gertrude
Half a century before beat writer Jack Kerouac touted the appeal of freight hopping, Gertrude [...]
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