Social Creature – The Ballad of Lavina and Louise
by Francis McGovern Just finished listening to Social Creature by Dr. Tara Isabella Burton. It was a book that’s hard to put down and if you are an English Major…
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It’s What She Does: Sharing Lynsey Addario’s World
By Katie Steinharter Lynsey Addario’s book, “It’s What I Do,” is one of those books that stays with you, that changes you, that influences you. It is one of those…
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The Minefield Girl by Sofia Ek
by Francis McGovern I just finished the memoir, The Minefield Girl by Sofia Ek. It’s a short but compelling read and it takes you behind the scenes of Sofia Ek´s personal…
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Christmas by the Book: Literature to Make Your Heart Grow Three Sizes
By Amanda Festa Some of my favorite memories of childhood are of the holiday season. Sparkling twinkle lights decorating houses, turning their ordinary facades into magical winter scenes, evergreen trees…
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Loving Poetry with Robert Pinsky’s Singing School
By Caitlin O’Hara On love, on grief, on every human thing, Time sprinkles Lethe’s water with his wing. -Walter Savage Landor, “On Love, on Grief” Recently while driving, I heard…
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Looking back: Wharton, Fitzgerald, and Ourselves
By Caitlin O’Hara Think of favorite endings of books that really resonate: Levin and his revelation towards goodness at the end of Anna Karenina. Molly Bloom’s return to girlish passion for her…
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“Fates and Furies”: Two Takes on a Marriage, One Impressive Novel
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies is an unusual accomplishment, not only because it is that rare ambitious novel that largely lives up to its ambition, but because it is essentially…
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The High Mountains of Portugal: A Thoughtful but Underwhelming Study of Grief
by Mary Kate Costigan Never let it be said that Yann Martel doesn’t like wild animals. Fifteen years ago he published Life of Pi, a book about a man and…
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In “Alive, Alive Oh!”, Diana Athill Remembers a Remarkable Life
By Mary Kate Costigan At 97 years old, Diana Athill has a lot of story to tell. Biographical details alone will tell you that those 97 years were significant; as…
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“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Gives an Unlikely Lesson in Adaptation, is Awesome While Doing So
by Mary Kate Costigan As a teenager, I once made a list of inaccuracies between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and its movie counterpart. I got to 67…
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