Marguerite Duras In Sa Dec
by Pamela Payne French writer Marguerite Duras spent some of her childhood in Sa Dec, a sprawling busy town in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Here she set much of…
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The Harlem Renaissance, Washington DC And the Rise of Langston Hughes
by Joe Kovacs It’s something of an oddity to mention writers and Washington DC, in the same sentence; one traditionally associates the city with the federal government and policy-making. But…
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Walt Whitman And The Civil War
by Claire Wang Walt Whitman was born in Huntington, Long Island on May 31, 1819, the second of nine children (four of whom were handicapped), to Louisa and Walter Sr.,…
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The House That Jack Built – The Beauty Ranch
by Mark Richardson I am … only just now beginning my first feeble attempts at building a house for myself. That is to say, I am chopping down some redwood…
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A Brief Respite: Nikos Kazantzakis on Mt.Athos
by James Miller As the thick reinforced door shuts behind me, closing out the secular world, I listen to the silence and breathe in the smell of pine and ocean.…
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The Accidental British Servant: Leonard Woolf in Ceylon
by Joe Kovacs When I joined the Peace Corps and went to Sri Lanka in 1997, I took a leave of absence from a graduate program in English literature at…
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Go to Know: Yeats’ Ireland
“You got to go there, to know there”, wrote Zora Neale Hurston. Although this African-American writer does not automatically evoke Ireland’s patron-poet, Hurston’s words are a compelling command for any…
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Takashi Atoda in Tokyo
by Rob Keast A reader visits the setting of a short story, not only because it is there but because he is there. Some points to consider before we begin……
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John Steinbeck’s New York: A Home in Sag Harbor
by Paige Grande The First Trip – 1925 Though Steinbeck is generally known as a California writer, he lived nearly half his life in New York – keeping homes in…
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Still an Inspiration: James Whitcomb Riley’s Legacy
by Lori Soard Just east of Indianapolis; sandwiched between corn fields and soybean crops; a few hundred feet from the Old National Road (US 40) rests the James Whitcomb Riley…
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