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Dating the start of modern literature is a bit of a fool's errand. Still, it can lead to interesting places:https://www.wsj.com/articles/1922-and-all-that-1502478603 …
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@GrantAWishard is biking (and blogging) the U.S.-Mexico border. His latest installment includes a tale of violence and mind games. You can read his travel journal day by day here: http://www.weeklystandard.com/section/border-bike-trip …pic.twitter.com/TjoTfv354q
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Especially relevant today: John Milton’s morality.http://www.weeklystandard.com/miltons-morality/article/2011211 …
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Spent the weekend reading ‘Fire & Fury’ – and reading *about* ‘Fire & Fury’ – and here’s what I thought about ithttp://on.wsj.com/2m4LF6l
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1) Currently sitting through a third viewing of My Little Pony Movie and it’s clear that My Little Pony > Last Jedi. No kayfabe.
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Higher ed folks: We're looking to hire a English faculty member here at Regent. If you know someone who might be a good fit, encourage them to apply: https://regent.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=12&id=244 …
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Prufrock: Most Students Are Philistines, Charles Dickens's Other Christmas Stories, and in Praise of Acknowledgmentshttp://tws.io/2Aqo99R
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I once wrote that mass shootings are "a theater of violence in which we are the unwitting yet compliant audience." That's still true. And I've seen no deep attempt by journos to dispute it — only eyerolls, claims that it's not their job to worry about it. They're wrong. 21/21
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So to maintain this line — we can't change how we cover mass shootings, or how will we know why they happen? — journalists are having to do this strange dance around the very reporting they're supposed to be boldly defending. 20/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/mass-shootings-threat-assessment-shooter-fbi-columbine/ …
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The perplexing, maddening problem is that what decades of media investigations keep showing is that media attention itself is a central component in why mass shootings keep happening. 19/
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Unpopular opinion: There are lots of good people in DC.
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When we lived in Connecticut, one of our neighbors refused to even consider moving to Raleigh because she thought it would be like living with apes (not her actual words, but the gist). Talk about brutishness.
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And this is not the only way in which the South is more cultured than other parts of the country (like the Pacific Northwest, where I grew up).https://twitter.com/bartonswaim/status/941321891771568128 …
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Tentative great news--I just got a call from the
#LibraryofCongress, which tells me it's making progress toward putting online its tape of#DonaldHall's play about#RobertFrost, which has been unseen/unheard for almost fifty years. No done deal yet--but keep your fingers crossed!Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Marilynne Robinson says Luther's 95 theses weren't the only cause of the Reformation. Lots of earlier reforming/protesting actors. Church History 101 comes to The New Republic.https://newrepublic.com/article/145925/luther-legend …
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I read a lot of nonfiction reviews. A lot. I don't remember reading anything Jennifer Szalai has written. Not a criticism. Just a remark.pic.twitter.com/lX8a9MgaJW
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DC folks: I'll be in town tomorrow and Thursday. Have some space in my sked. If anyone wants to grab coffee, DM me.
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@weeklystandard portrait of snooker is Essay of the Day in@micahmattix's@prufrocknews literary newsletter. Worth a read, maybe?http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-god-of-the-snooker-table/article/2010783 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Prufrock: The Many Russian Revolutions, the World's Greatest Snooker Player, and Why God Is Not Nicehttp://tws.io/2C6P3Fg
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"'Mr Waugh, why do you keep calling me Chandler when you know my name is Chancellor?' Waugh replied, 'When I was at school they called me “Wuffles” – I didn’t blub about it.'"https://literaryreview.co.uk/author-of-himself …
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