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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
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Sean Monahan • Post-Fire Los Angeles
Those of us who are trying to write well about the world we live in, or to teach students to write well about the world they live in, are caught in a time warp, where literature by definition still consists of forms that were certified as “literary” in the 19th century: novels and short stories and poems.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
THE LITTLE FLOWER was mastering New York City as no mayor since Peter Stuyvesant had mastered it.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
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Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Berkeley is a microcosm of the intrusion of corporations into education. Education, at least an education that challenges assumptions and teaches students to be self-critical, has been sacrificed in a Faustian bargain. Charles Schwartz, an emeritus professor of physics, drew up a chart that showed that in the last fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007,
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“What our readers hunger for,” I was told by Clifton Fadiman, a pillar of the club’s board of judges from 1944 until his death in 1999, “is books that explain. William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich explained a whole age to us.” A majority of the club’s biggest sellers, Fadiman pointed out, have been books that readers found helpf
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