Monthly Archives: October 2022
I am posting here a really fun conversation via email between a friend, Mary Anne O’Neil, and me. At least it was fun for the two of us. Perhaps it will be for others looking in from the outside; I hope so. It concerns Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, which I took a few months to read (in English translation) late this past spring and through the summer. Mary Anne is a scholar of French lit, especially poetry, retired now from…..
Recent Posts
- An Exchange over Hugo’s “Les Misérables”
- JONATHAN FRANZEN’S “CROSSROADS”: SHOULD WE WANT A TRILOGY OF IT?
- SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- LOVE & THE FIRST LINE
- FOR PHILIP ROTH’S “EVERYMAN”
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- Henry Allen on the current project
- MaryAnne O'Neil on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Robert Arnold Johnson on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
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- Susan Pickett on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
