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Showing posts with label Harper Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harper Lee. Show all posts
Thursday, February 21, 2013

To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie

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So, To Kill a Mockingbird. I don’t think I’m alone in saying it’s one of my favorite books of all time. But amazingly, until last we...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

H.L. Mencken Steps In It

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In 1917, H.L.  Mencken published an essay about what he saw as the abject, cultural wasteland of the American South, titled “The Sahar...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Georgia vs. Bama: The Lit Crit Catfight

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Georgia fans might be a little bitter after losing to Alabama in the SEC Championship the other night, but let’s face it, this bad blood ...
Monday, August 20, 2012

My life story- in ten authors or less

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Like Wallace Thurman and Neal Cassady, I was born in Salt Lake City. I went to the same high school as another Wallace, Wallace Stegner.  ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Literature and The Art of Manliness

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If you liked our post from Fathers Day, you'll probably also enjoy these similar posts from one of my favorite sites, ArtofManliness.com...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Be a Better Dad, Read a Novel...

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Fathers Day’s got me thinking. There just aren’t many great fathers in the world of literature. Scan your bookshelves and tell me how ma...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Forget flouridation, Let's look at literary additives

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We're all familiar with the monumental genius of Harper Lee's classic book  To Kill a Mockingbird. It turns out that the charac...